SAP purchased Signavio as a BPM platform because we are doing an SAP project. Of course, we did a POC because it's our due diligence to look into other tools. We found that the Signavio tool is weaker in the SAP S/4 environment. 

We had different requirements from the project we needed to implement, and it was possible to configure ARIS and customize it to our needs. This is not possible in Signavio. For example, ARIS has features like fact sheets that give you spreadsheet-like visibility of your information, and we could break down a few spreadsheets like Excels or Smartsheet lists and integrate this into ARIS. And with this spreadsheet and catalog functionality, that was possible. Again, you can't do this in Signavio.

Compared to Signavio, ARIS gives you much more flexibility to set up your environment, databases, etc. We also have a license for the workflow engine called ARIS Process Governance. This is much more powerful, and more things are possible than with other tools. There is also a test designer connected to ARIS. You can take your process models and design your test cases from the BPM platform and synchronize that with the solution manager. Other platforms don't have this feature. ARIS is capable of bidirectional sync, too.  

On the other hand, Signavio might be more specific and specialized for the SAP solution because it's part of SAP now. However, this is a recent development. Perhaps we might see more integration with the SAP environment in two or three years because software implementation and integration take time. Everything with marketing and passwords needs to be implemented first, but then we need to see how Software AG positions itself with ARIS in this field. For now, I don't see any advantages Signavio has over ARIS.

For process mining, we decided to go with ARIS' competitor Celonis two or three years ago, and it's even hosted and owned by another team. The latest RFP on that also showed Celonis would continue to be the provider for the process mining. Of course, there is now a discussion about integrating these two tools, and let's see how that turns out. But we are not using ARIS process mining, and it was even evaluated, not by me but by the process mining colleagues. 

We also have an automation team, and this automation team takes care of RPA and process mining. The problem is that we have a very unintegrated solution landscape. My idea would be something different. I would recommend having an integrated solution for that, but it's not my decision. We have various tools for the different approaches, and it's not coming together, but let's see what the future brings. I know about the capabilities and the third-party connections ARIS offers, but I'm not the owner of these topics at the company.

There's another one in this space, Visual Paradigm. We use that one too. It's similar to ARIS.

We compared ARIS. It's very integrated. You can reuse the different objects and processes that you create. This was one of our main requirements to have a tool that was object-oriented in order to be able to reuse what is described very easily.