We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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."Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"The product is stable."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"Business Process Analysis: We can simulate, optimize, and analyse business processes based on various business requirements. It assures our rolling out the best processes."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"We have faced scenarios where Apache Airflow becomes non-responsive, leading to job failures. To resolve such situations, we had to manually reboot Apache Airflow since it doesn't provide an option to restart within the application. This necessitated modifying some configurations to initiate a restart of all Apache Airflow components. Although Apache Airflow is generally dependable, it may occasionally encounter glitches that can disrupt production flows and batches."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"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."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"The solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."
"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."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."
"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while ARIS BPA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. Apache Airflow report.
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