We performed a comparison between Appian and Asana based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Apache, Pega and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."The most valuable feature is business automation."
"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."
"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."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"The product's most valuable feature is the low code aspect of development. We can develop an end-to-end VPN solution using a single platform."
"The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"Appian's most valuable feature is that we can create end-to-end process workflows with minimum turnaround."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It was just a few clicks to get started and to integrate Asana into our existing business system. It took 15 days to fully implement our projects using Asana."
"Asana is a very simple interface for project managers to figure out, providing all the functions they need."
"It is stable and easy to set up."
"The ability to build subtasks and break things down off of our major tasks has been very valuable. It is very stable and extremely scalable. The initial setup is very simple."
"It has helped our departments maintain visibility."
"Stable Kanban style tool for collaboration and task management. It runs smoothly and has a straightforward setup."
"By using this software, I have adaptability in my work, and it can improve the production of our company."
"The only thing I love about the product is that it is beautiful."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"It has it's own built-in UI components and doesn't provide much flexibility to customize or extend those components."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"Native mobile capabilities or hybrid mobile app capabilities are very limited. Things like offline sync, offline storage, access to smartphone device features, etc. are not supported by the Appian platform yet."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
"Auto-shift is an essential feature for planning, but it's currently not there. It should have this feature so that when you move a task that depends on another task, the dates should be auto-shifted. For example, you have two tasks dependent on each other. When the parent task is moved or delayed, the child task should also be delayed, and the date should be shifted. When we have a very long timeline, it's very complex to go task by task and shift the dates on the task. Auto-shift is a fantastic and basic feature of project management, and having such a feature in Asana would make our lives much easier. If Asana added this feature, it would complete the suit and close the project management cycle because currently, there is a gap."
"The product's page is not user-friendly."
"There could be some improvements in terms of how projects or day-to-day work is organized. One of the challenges when it comes to rolling out to an enterprise is the way the projects are organized. It has a kind of setup where you have different projects and tasks, but it is not as organized as Smartsheet when it comes to organizing projects or different teams. It can get really cluttered really fast. JIRA has another suite to submit the support tickets. It would be good if Asana could branch out to incorporate some kind of workflow. It is great for collaboration and recording work, but there isn't any workflow. It would be useful if they can map out a workflow of who approves what. This is kind of a big ask, and it is not geared towards that."
"It's hard to integrate Asana into other parts of the company workflow, so integration is an area for improvement."
"The stability of Asana is good. However, there are some issues with maintenance, when the solution is down. For example, there might be maintained for a few hours where we cannot use the solution."
"You need to have an action plan, otherwise, it won't be as effective."
"Some updates are outdated, and their functionalities can affect the end outcomes."
"This solution has a learning curve, where it is initially difficult to use."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Asana 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 Asana writes "Extremely stable, user-friendly, and easy to navigate". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com and Jira.
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