We performed a comparison between Appian and ARIS BPA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support has been amazing overall."
"It reduces development time in half making us more efficient."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"The agile manner that we require to create our workflows. This is probably the most critical part of our solution and the time it takes to start processing the solution."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"The most valuable features of Appian are the VPN engine, it is fast, lightweight, and easy to set up business rules. Business teams can do it by themselves. That is a very good feature."
"The tech support is quite good."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."
"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."
"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"The capability to integrate all information of the business and to generate simulations of processes. It can analyze the model of operations quickly."
"Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"We have clients that want to use Office 365, Microsoft Analytics, and Power Apps. Appian just isn't the same as using something specifically designed to cater to the Microsoft Suite."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"The biggest areas of improvement would be in facilitating team development, DevOps, and integration with typical tools used in enterprise development (Jenkins, Subversion, etc.)"
"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."
"ARIS BPA’s usability could be improved."
"User interface (UI)."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"An area where it lacks and can be considered for improvement in the future is if we can somehow automate or learn how we can automate different processes."
"ARIS needs to make a better user interface. The user interface sucks. The problem with ARIS is that they have two interfaces for the same product."
"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."
"The tool must provide more documents."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while ARIS BPA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and iServer. See our ARIS BPA vs. Appian report.
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