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."What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"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 solution's most valuable features are the regular periodic and quarterly updates, they are very useful updates. They keep improving the solution more often, and that helps the platform or code always be up to date with the latest features."
"Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"The application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"In addition to our applications, we have also stored, in ARIS, the footprint of where those applications have been implemented. That means we know in which country a given application has been implemented. With embedded geolocation, we have a very visual world map, where we can see the footprint of each application."
"The tool defines the processes. It's the documentation of everything."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"One of the many advantages of ARIS is that it is supported by a very strong BPM community, which is critical for us. Although it has been in business for many years, it is still at an early stage of evolution. There are so many instances where your specific use case or requirement for using ARIS hasn't necessarily been matured across the sector. So, you need access to a very active community to help you explore possible solutions and ways in which ARIS can be used to achieve those use cases."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."
"ARIS BPA has a good directory option, which helps to keep track of all of your metadata, and that's very useful."
"There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"My only request is that they decrease the license costs."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved and the initial setup should be made easy."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"Since this is a design tool, seamless interface to make the process flows executable."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
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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