ARIS BPA Other Solutions Considered

Libor Černý - PeerSpot reviewer
Process manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Because of some organizational changes, our company is discussing changing our platform. There are several new people who have experience with other platforms. 

We use ARIS BPM as a modeling tool and also ARIS Business Publisher. This tool publishes models inside the organization. New employees within the organization have recommended a new platform that doesn't have a tool for publishing process models. We are now discussing the added value of changing the platform. Or, if it would be better for new employees to learn how to work with ARIS. 

Microsoft Visio is a tool without a repository. If you create objects from a different point of view, then you have to create it five times with different names or descriptions. Therefore, people imagine there are five different objects, when in reality, there is one. I can't even imagine the time that we saved using this tool over the past 10 years. 

ARIS is the best tool for business from my perspective. If you buy ARIS, you can do every model for arrays, organizational structure, processes, knowledge, etc. With different tools, the best edition is mainly for IT guys. If you want to use those other tools for business, then you need to buy a special edition for business. ARIS goes from business to technical stuff and other tools go from technical stuff to business. This is the main difference from other solutions that I know are on the market.

I am on the business side, so ARIS is better for me than other tools because we buy IT services for our business models. Our company has no IT department, so we have a partner company that offers us IT services instead. 

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Laurent Salembier - PeerSpot reviewer
DSI Functions Support at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

I have used many different solutions. In this field, ARIS is probably the best compromise, in terms of coverage and functionality. There are solutions on the market that are probably better than ARIS in certain areas of their scopes. But if we look at the full scope, with all the modules, ARIS is probably the best application that there is on the market.

Before selecting ARIS, we looked at four other solutions, all within the top-five on the market. We concluded that ARIS was the best one.

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BP
Enterprise Architect EA Tooling (APM) at Acrostine

I have seen how MEGA works and it is definitely more user-friendly than ARIS.

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Keith Bohanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Group BPM Standards at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

ARIS is best of breed. We are obviously aware of other solutions globally and there are a handful in the space that have specific capabilities that would have loosely matched what ARIS can do for us. Time and time again, we come away with the impression that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to move from ARIS. More specifically, we have visibility, as do any of their customers, into their roadmap over the next couple of years. We are very comfortable with it continuing to be exactly what we need.

We haven't used the governance, risk and compliance component (the GRC component) within ARIS. The introduction of ARIS into the risk part of the business through the non-financial risk program happened after the bank had already committed and put in place a risk register, which is powered by IBM OpenPages. So, we work alongside that.

We have an RPA capability within the bank that preceded the introduction of ARIS. That is embedded within our operational model and continues to be the case. As with every bank that has a long legacy of serving its customers, over the last couple of years, we have accelerated our RPA capability to the point where, in Europe, our bank has one of the most mature RPA capabilities.

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Regina Janitsch - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Organization and Process Management at OeKB

We looked at Signavio, in addition to Casewise, among the solutions we looked at in an intensive way.

Signavio was okay, but it didn't fit our needs when it came to risk management, and their licensing system also didn't fit our requirements.

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AL
Managing Director at Optus

ARIS was the only government "approved" software that the organization was "allowed" to purchase. This was a questionable decision.

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KH
Interprise Architect/Chief Architect/Project, Portfolie manager at KLH-Consulting

At that time, in 2002, it had to be connected to the SAP environment. The ARIS tool set at that time was one of the biggest in this area, and that's why we were choosing it. There was something else, but it was not as good. Not stable for the SAP environment. I think it was because of the SAP environment that we choose this product, not others.

Today, I would say, from an architectural point of view, it was a good choice. You will see that in the EU, they also use it in the customer area for defining BPMN processes and data. So, they are using this in the EU now as the main product for these areas.

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NR
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We looked at many tools, including Signavio, Bizagi, Visio, Nimbus, MEGA, et cetera.

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Michiel Overeem - PeerSpot reviewer
Process Architect at Stars and Stories Nederland B.V.

We briefly looked around at what was in the market, but with my past experience with ARIS, the choice was quickly made to use this tool. It might be a bit more expensive, but it has a lot of possibilities, so we didn't spend very long searching for other tools.

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HS
Organizational Development Officer at OeKB

On our evaluation list, we also looked at Signavio Process Manager, but there were so many differences. They were millions of miles between ARIS and Signavio Process Manager. Therefore, we did not think about which tool to take. It was completely clear that we should get ARIS because it was the best solution for us.

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AJ
Principal Consultant - DPA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have evaluated multiple other options before selecting ARIS BPA, however, I would prefer not to disclose the product names.

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AP
Global Process and Control Improvement at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I've previously used QPR. I would say the advantage of ARIS is that it offers more possibilities, but it's also a more complex and costly solution. 

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it_user97134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Responsible BPM Competence Centre with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • MEGA
  • Casewise
  • SAP
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it_user743028 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Process Management Consultant and Business Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I was not given the option to choose this product, as it was already in use. But evaluation can be made on how globally and widely this product have been used by different industries over others like IBM BPM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Appian BPM, Pega BPM, and the tools mentioned above.

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AM
Senior manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I have been evaluating this solution with EBM.

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NR
Senoir consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
WR
Business Solutions at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees

We also used Enterprise Architect.

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NR
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user758082 - PeerSpot reviewer
ARIS Senior Business Analyst/Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Visio, Blueworks, Signavio, and ARIS. Absolutely choose ARIS or Signavio.

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it_user499062 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Process Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it_user708132 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP & Head of Policies and Procedures Management Dept. at Union National Bank

We did not look at another vendor. We had installed a core banking system, Temenos T24, and they were the ones who recommended ARIS, back in 2011.

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it_user268932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

No, I am a consultant and we work with this tool.

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it_user701076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Process Analyst
it_user462882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner / Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Before choosing this product, we evaluated it against SYDLE SEED.

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