We performed a comparison between Appian and Nintex Process Platform 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."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."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"Appian's most valuable feature is that we can create end-to-end process workflows with minimum turnaround."
"SAIL (Self-Assembling Interface Layer), a scripting language provided by Appian. It is the equivalent of JS and CSS. It allows creation of complex UIs which are also responsive. With SAIL, we have a single language for both the UI logic and its appearance. UI components can be built as reusable components and used in multiple UI interfaces."
"It provides us with real-time data on all connected systems in terms of how they're integrated with each other and how they are performing in a workflow manner."
"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."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"It reduces development time in half making us more efficient."
"The Vizio-style designer that runs in the browser is, to me, by far the most valuable feature of the solution. It means that the customer doesn’t have to install any client tools to create powerful workflows."
"The solution has helped us to automate our business processes, our approval systems, and automation for quickly developing on SharePoint on-prem and SharePoint online."
"It is very easy to create and deploy. I am very happy with how user-friendly Nintex Workflow is."
"Valuable features include workflows (escalation, reminder, LazyApproval, actions, etc.) and ease of use."
"I like the feature of getting an email for a workflow error, then I do not have to go through every instance."
"NWC forms could be better. Also, the ability to build workflows that are not dependent on SharePoint is very desirable. The forms feature just isn’t as functional as the forms for SharePoint."
"This tool set makes it easy to integrate current processes and increase adoption rates and usage for the tool, as well as the process changes to update it on the fly."
"I find it useful to utilize LDAP query action to find out the status of a particular user."
"There are some restrictions with respect to using external components within Appian. So, for example, if we do not have a particular feature available, there's a long cycle of getting approvals and all of that. That does not offer flexibility, which definitely can be improved on."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"Appian has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"My only request is that they decrease the license costs."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"I would like to see more complete university tools. For example, with UiPath, I have had a good experience related to a free course in order to provide some users some different levels of knowledge. This extra training helps users not only use the solution but to develop further within the tool."
"Even though the company has made great improvements in online documentation, featuring rich material which includes case studies of real-life use cases, the material could definitely be better in quality and coverage of use cases."
"Difficult to include external partners with the solution deployed on-premise."
"Hawkeye is emerging as a reporting solution, but as a V1 product it’s not very useful yet."
"Heavy, cumbersome and inflexible."
"Currently, a notable challenge lies in the alignment of user experiences across the eight or nine applications within the suite. Transitioning between applications can be somewhat cumbersome due to varying user interfaces. However, the provider is actively addressing this concern by consistently rolling out updates every four to five months, aimed at harmonizing and streamlining the interfaces. This ongoing effort is expected to enhance the user experience over time. In terms of functionality and features, the platform stands out, offering flexibility with the option for both on-premises and cloud deployment. This flexibility extends to the RPA tool, providing clients with choices tailored to their preferences. An advantage lies in the shared security and data infrastructure across the toolset, facilitating smooth data transfer between applications. This contrasts with experiences with Oracle, where data transfer may involve complexities such as the need for intermediary file formats like TXL or SCZ."
"We would like to design parallel workflows and long-running workflows, along with new features for connecting to cloud-based systems."
"The product’s support for the mobile platform and its ability to handle artificial loads could be better."
"The licensing needs to be improved. Right now, we find it's getting more expensive to use the product."
"The interface could be better and more language support is needed in the development environment or in the solutions platform in general."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while Nintex Process Platform is ranked 9th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Nintex Process Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nintex Process Platform writes "Offers good integration capabilities and easy to learn and good stability". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas Nintex Process Platform is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Pega BPM, Bizagi and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our Appian vs. Nintex Process Platform report.
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