We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM BPM 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 most valuable feature is the process documentation. For us, ARIS is a lifestyle more than a tool. It helps us learn how to think and how to plan for our system."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"It helps to maintain a single source of truth regarding the processes followed within an organization."
"The most valuable feature in the latest versions is the connect portal, where you can do very simple modeling using the web-based portal."
"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."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"It is being able to see the process, and understanding what the process is versus having to bury it in code somewhere."
"This solution is very stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We made the transformation to agile. Altogether with BPM, it is the total package."
"It is a stale solution."
"Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"This solution has always been lacking in the user interface (UI), it needed to be improved a lot. However, from the acquisition of Spark UI, the UI is much better. Overall the solution is robust and has the ability to integrate with any product for complex workflows."
"Simulation is one area that is a bit complex."
"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 user experience's usability (in general) should be improved as the tool is updated."
"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 standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"Some improvements have been done, after Software AG acquired ARIS, but I don't believe it's still integrated with the other tool WebMethods in a perfect way."
"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."
"The setup was quite complex because the solution was cutting-edge at that time and IBM invested considerably in the implementation, likely at a loss to themselves."
"I would like to see more inclusion of RPA technologies. If we have more manual processes, we can use robotic process automation and integrate that in with the solution."
"The business would like to use the product with a lot less IT and equipment involvement."
"We would appreciate more user-friendly definitions of processes with a more user-friendly interface for documenting processes."
"I'd like the tool to be more flexible."
"Integration with web services, especially in the standard version of the product."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
"The pricing is a little bit high. It's gone up in cost."
ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM BPM 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 IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Appian, IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Cloud Pak for Automation. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM BPM report.
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