We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and BIC Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the process documentation. For us, ARIS is a lifestyle more than a tool. It helps us learn how to think and how to plan for our system."
"We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"I am impressed with the tool's integration. It also facilitates collaboration in the organization."
"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."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"While this is a new product it has a mature feel from being built by a company with many years in the business."
"This is low-cost and very user friendly. A variety of models are available depending on the needs of the customer."
"The product is easy to use."
"The central dictionary is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"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."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"Some improvements have been done, after Software AG acquired ARIS, but I don't believe it's still integrated with the other tool WebMethods in a perfect way."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"One of the issues is, when you are defining databases, the way they use entities and relationship diagrams, the way we can define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve."
"The product needs improvement regarding the confidentiality of the domain information for the key administrator."
"There's an issue with the current manual that they're working on."
"As the product is very new, some minor features are still missing, but everything is there to handle day-to-day process modeling."
"The solution could improve its connectivity to other systems."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while BIC Platform is ranked 18th in Business Process Design with 4 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while BIC Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BIC Platform writes "Provides good stability, but they should add a feature for enterprise architecture". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Appian, whereas BIC Platform is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, Visio, ADONIS, Camunda and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. See our ARIS BPA vs. BIC Platform report.
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