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Mason Turvey - PeerSpot reviewer
Robotic Process Automation Engineer at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We didn't have a BPM in place beforehand. 

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Somnath-Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect and LowCode Practice Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have previously worked with IBM BPM, OutSystems, Mendix, Unqork, Quickbase, and Pega.

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Kiran Jorwekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

My organization only used Appian.

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GauravJain3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Export Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I didn't use any other BPM solution prior to Appian. Appian was my first solution. Prior to that, I was basically developing applications from scratch using J2EE. In that aspect, Appian has been very helpful in getting the applications out very fast.

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RM
Head of Digital Solutions, Head of Appian Department, Digital Transformation Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I previously used APEX Oracle Application Express and OutSystems. From a local perspective between the two solutions, I prefer to go with OutSystems. Overall I prefer Appian because it has a VPN engine compared to OutSystems which is just a workflow engine.

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GT
CTO Digital Division at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was an integrator for IBM BAW, Business Automation Workflow. And afterward, Pega, and then Appian. My experience with the other platforms was somehow not very good. With IBM, it's very complex. The product is very, very complex, and you need a lot of higher-skilled people to do a lot of stuff. Also, maintenance and management are very difficult. When you can go into Pega, the low-code stuff of Pega is a bit trickier to acquire. It is more complex to develop solutions with it. Also, the business part of Pega is less advanced and is more limited. You can't do everything you want there.

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TH
CIO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We have been using APEX in our organization for some time now, and I was checking the comparison between Oracle APEX and Appian on peerspot.com for an unbiased opinion. Presently, we are implementing both Oracle APEX and Appian almost equally for small to medium purposes. However, for enterprise needs, I think we will choose Appian.

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JM
Intelligent Automation Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Previously, I used IBM BPM, on a limited scale. I am not able to make a comparison.

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AA
IT Senior General Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel

We visited the workflows that are provided within SharePoint but they did not fulfill the kind of things that we were looking for, or the problems that we were trying to solve at that point of time. We were planning to work on specific domains, specific areas, but you cannot make it work for complex things. 

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DD
Application Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did try to shoehorn Cibo into doing everything. We unbundled it into different domains. 

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SajeevNair - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief technology officer at Conneqt Digital

used multiple options. Since i represent  product agnostic  IT services organization, cant comment furthur on this

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it_user264834 - PeerSpot reviewer
BPM Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I used Oracle BPM. I switched because, as a developer, the market was becoming completely saturated and I was not getting any jobs.

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GL
Senior Business Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

Yes. IBM, Oracle, and Activiti open source. A different organization I was with selected Appian.

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AlanGulle - PeerSpot reviewer
Data SME at Sparta Global

We are building platforms, but normally we are fully in Azure and the whole platform is in Azure, but because some of our customers and potential customers want to use Appian, I'm preparing my team for such opportunities.

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it_user747780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Appian Lead Designer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We wanted to consolidate multiple existing legacy desktop applications into one unified web-based platform and Appian was one of the best options available.

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it_user1398105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Appian Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We previously looked at the Pega system; actually, one of our departments is currently using Pega system, but we wanted to diversify our technology base to provide a better experience for our stakeholders. My CIO recommended we make an investment because these two platforms are leading BPM tools offering similar functionalities, including BPM, EI, and case management. So we were calculating the pricing, trying to figure out what the return on the investment would be if we went with one platform or the other and what it would cost us in terms of losses between Pega and Appian.

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AS
BPM Developer at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I'm not sure if there was another solution used previously.

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IC
Head of Publishing Solutions at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are also working with Salesforce.

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it_user629871 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Advisor to Banks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have been using tools from IBM, Oracle, CA (formerly known as Computer Associates), so mostly these enterprise tools at the same time are very complex and not very agile. The learning curve is much more than we found with the learning curve for Appian, so it is a trade-off between the agility of using a tool versus the complexity. To a large extent, more functions can be serviced through the tools previously mentioned from a enterprise perspective. However, most of the functions that we have are requirements for our services that we run through Appian, therefore we see this coverage as okay

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EZ
Technical Service Advisor at PPG Industries

I used IBM BPM 8.5.7 prior to adopting this solution.

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it_user865488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager and Technical Leader at Exus

Prior to Appian, there was a Java-based BPMS solution, but Appian was valued for its low-code characteristics that lead to the fastest development cycles in the industry. It was also valued for the scalability, the flexibility on development, the level of support, and the increasing developer base.

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HS
Director of national processing at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

This is our first test regarding RPA. We don't have any other previous experience with other solutions.

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it_user735246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No, I didn't use any.

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it_user633939 - PeerSpot reviewer
 IT senior consultant

We didn't have previous solution.

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it_user577641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We had used a homegrown solution. We do custom development, software development work, or that was our legacy. Maintaining that homegrown solution over time just proved to be ineffective. Appian provided a much better solution at a lower overall cost.

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RD
Digital Transformation Architect/Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I personally used Lombardi and IBM BPM prior to Appian.

The main reasons for switching were:

  1. Too many off-shore consultants taking all the consulting work, developing shoddy apps while driving down the rates, and generally giving BPM and the product a bad name.
  2. IBM steadily providing release after release that introduced more bugs and making the tool itself less usable.
  3. Appian was clearly becoming the better product and their market share was on the hockey stick slope up, whereas IBM's was falling quickly.
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TC
Senior Account Executive/Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Appian is the first low-code platform that I've handled. I came from a hardware background.

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AA
Team leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I previously used .NET Framework. I switched because I think Appian is better for enterprise.

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