We were looking at other solutions as competitors when we did our initial investigation. If I recall, we talked to Creatio. They're a smaller name in the space. We talked to LANSA. We also talked to Pegasystems, but we didn't really get much of a response from them. We talked to Retool as an option. They're not much on the BPM side. They're more on the frontend development side. So, we factored them out pretty quickly.

We didn't really come into it looking for a BPM solution. We came into it looking for a low-code application development solution. All of those fit the bill, and they had various benefits and drawbacks. Where Appian stood out was the full stack integration. They have the data integration layer for both on-prem and public sources, and then there is the full stack, including RPA integration, integration with different systems, frontend development, and data modeling. They also offered a BPM solution, which was really nice.

With solutions like OutSystems and Mendix, you can implement headless commerce. For a B2C mobile app, Mendix is pretty good. For customers that have SAP, they have Mendix because it has been acquired by Siemens, and Siemens and SAP have a very good handshake. If they want to implement a low-code platform, they're going with Mendix.

We also compared the solution to Katalon, and Katalon had a few better features than Appium. I cannot name each specific feature, however, I know that Katalon had some features that made it even faster.

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When it comes to connecting multiple systems, Appian fares much better compared to Pega.

IBM has Business Process Manager, Oracle has its BPM as well.

No.

Appian is like a butter knife, not a Swiss Army knife. It will serve the business user's solution. It'll create a very good thing and the application is clear.

I really enjoy it because the PowerApps from Microsoft mature and are internally connected to other platforms inside Microsoft.

However, it doesn't explain the learning part very well non-technical people. There is a separation, but in the Appian fundamentals, this course is just for the BAs and the PMs. If they want to lead a project with Appian, this is the minimum standard that they need to know. At that point, it's easy for me to train project managers and business analysts. I think that's the advantage of Appian.

Oracle BPM, Pega, and D+H.

Pega and Appian are both good BPM platforms. The area where Appian has the advantage is that it's really low-code. It takes much less effort when compared to Pega, both for developing and for setup and implementation. Within about 30 days, maximum, you can build out a product in Appian, whereas it will take you much longer in Pega. However, in regard to the four areas in which I believe Appian is lacking, Pega has all those features in a mature manner: seamless contact center integration, advanced features in RPA, mature chatbot and email bot integration, and next best action.

We're currently doing a case study on this specific solution. We didn't look at other solutions.

We already had IBM. We evaluated Oracle and CA. We found this product to be good price-wise as well as quick implementation-wise. From IBM, at that time, we evaluated WebSphere, APM Manager, and Workflow Manager. So, it was centered around their WebSphere, Lombardi product. 

We evaluated both Pega and Activiti before choosing this solution.

The alternative we evaluated was Pega BPM.

I want to migrate to Microsoft PowerApps. I'm actually looking for the feasibility of migrating the existing Appian objects into PowerApps.

Not before; but after I evaluated Pega.

I only saw demos of Pegasystems and IBM. We selected between Pega, IBM, and Appian. Appian was cheaper than the others when we saw these three solutions. As of now, I don't know about the pricing.

We evaluated several different options. Pegasystems is one. I'm not sure about K2, but there were multiple options available. If you look at the industry reports there are numerous solutions listed. We felt that Appian, for the value and for the ease of use, and for the mobile capability, was the best solution.

See above regarding Lombardi/IBM BPM. They are the other market leader, but while Appian is trending upwards, IBM is on its way down.

Oracle BPM. Appian was better.