We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Appian 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."It's stable."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"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."
"Apache Airflow is in Python language, making it easy to use and learn."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"The solution has a lot of strong features for the financial industry, it is very easy to use."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"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."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"The tool is very flexible."
"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"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."
"The documentation must be improved."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"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."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"It would be nice if you could create your own customized apps when the business needed them."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"We have clients that want to use Office 365, Microsoft Analytics, and Power Apps. Appian just isn't the same as using something specifically designed to cater to the Microsoft Suite."
"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 solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"Lacks business rules management as part of the solution."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Appian 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 Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Oracle BPM, whereas Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM. See our Apache Airflow vs. Appian report.
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