We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Software AG and others in Business Process Design."ARIS process modeling and analysis allows integration of end-to-end business processes with the organization's vision, strategies, and business objectives, through visual management."
"The EPC modeling is very detailed, the semantic check is helpful, and auto-layout simplifies the formatting."
"From an architectural point of view, when you're looking at the business area, you can find all the information you have to use as an architect."
"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."
"ARIS has a good collaboration function. You create a portal where any authorized users can work on the models. There are simple flows for making and approving changes."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It can automate many routine tasks and save human resources to focus on real problems."
"Very good repository features."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."
"Areas for improvement include sales, prospecting, shopping, customer service, after-sales (claims and advice for the client), and all processes pertaining to customer loyalty."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"Regarding improvements, I suggest enhancing the connection between objects in process and data models. It's crucial to define the structure of objects, especially when dealing with standard frameworks like VMM. There should be better visualization of arrows between BPM and data modeling objects, specifying their structure and impact. For future versions, a feature similar to Bizagi, allowing users to see forms or SQL representations of objects, would be valuable for demonstrating and presenting project details to stakeholders."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"I've tried to use Power Designer to bring in images, which didn't work very well at all."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. 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 SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.
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