We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and SAP Signavio Process Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because ARIS BPA is more expensive, has a more difficult initial setup, and is less user friendly, SAP Signavio Process Manager ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"ARIS process modeling and analysis allows integration of end-to-end business processes with the organization's vision, strategies, and business objectives, through visual management."
"you want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"The solution provides data mining and AI features."
"SAP Signavio Process Manager is very responsive."
"The fact that the repository is available on the web is the most valuable feature. It's a very simple tool. If you can use something simple and visual, you should be able to use the model as well in Signavio. It has the ability, for example, to track versioning control, so if you make updates to the processes, you have the ability to track the versions as well."
"I use SAP Signavio Process Manager to model processes to the former operating model."
"I have done a lot of modeling over quite a number of years, and I think that the modeling capabilities in Signavio are state of the art."
"There are many valuable features, of course. I would say the main value of Signavio is to have your current process map in a way that is easy to read and derive optimization actions to make it leaner, faster, more user friendly, etc. Another great feature is the visualization, which is easy to see and read. How they map the process is also very user friendly, with drag-and-drop functionality. Also, it's a very self-explanatory, user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature is probably the nature of it."
"We could increase the transparency and speed for the new ERP introduction. The status and changes by the new system are now clear to everybody and it is a great tool to train the people."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
"There is not enough documentation provided for the tool's support or administration."
"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"They should make improvements as per customer requirements."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"The reporting is too slow and there is a limit of 250 processes."
"It could be more flexible from a customization point of view, where the user is able to display only whatever he needs."
"It is not easy to learn the product."
"From what I have experienced when I worked with a process team, we would like to work with dummy process diagrams. Right now, I don't know if I would set up a process as a dummy, since it very often gets mixed up with diagrams in production. There are many process diagrams linked to the production environment. I would like to have some kind of sandbox to work with. That would be very good. I don't even know if they already have it, but I would certainly like that."
"The user administration, the user-group administration, and the license models need improvement."
"I would like to see more predictive analytics. The tool already has all the process maps, but it could offer a more proactive improvement offering. For example, they could put a little bit more machine learning behind it."
"If you start from scratch then I think this product would be ideal, but if you already have something then it may or may not suit you."
"Two executives cannot work on one modeling process simultaneously."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 58 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. 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 SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". ARIS BPA is most compared with ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi and Visio, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, Camunda, Visio, ADONIS and UiPath Process Mining. See our ARIS BPA vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
See our list of best Business Process Design vendors and best Business Process Management (BPM) vendors.
We monitor all Business Process Design reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
You can export all process model attributes (including custom attributes) to Excel. For example, we set a process maturity attribute against our processes and then extract it against process sponsors and owners.
Selection and filtering are done in Excel, not in the reporting tool. There are quite a few standard reports as well. You can import data to the repository for use in process attributes (standard or custom) - we did this with our process roles. You could do it with any other layer of your business or technical architecture.
You can create process links for both vertical drop-down and lateral links between processes which end users can navigate. Also, you can hide or show attributes and custom attributes for different user groups who browse the published architecture.
I don't understand what is meant by "...create a custom report for push..." Perhaps you mean schedule reports for automatic dissemination? If so, no you can't do that. However, I'm aware that an API can be purchased that will likely allow you to do much more in the way of integration and automation but we don't have that.
I hope this helps.