We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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."The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"The best feature is the customization."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Airflow is creating and scheduling jobs. Additionally, the reattempt at failed jobs is useful."
"Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"The solution provides integrations to ServiceNow and other systems, flexibility of connectivity, and reporting."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."
"The ability to sort via multiple criteria to identify the relationships you need for a specific object."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"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."
"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."
"The tool needs to improve its support since they take long to respond."
"Regarding stability, when there are any customized settings being done at customer end - post upgrade to newer versions - it makes the customer environment unstable for a short duration."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"While the dashboarding solution for integrating all kinds of process-related information from company sources other than ARIS is getting ever better, my personal wish would be to have a module that is more targeted to an Agile implementation of some modeled processes (model–to-execute)."
"The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the cross and upselling of modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while ARIS BPA 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 ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. Apache Airflow report.
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