We performed a comparison between Appian and Fortra's Automate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Apache, Pega and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."There is no need to worry about vulnerabilities in the system, because Appian built a secure system."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"It reduces development time in half making us more efficient."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"I like the interface; it makes managing automation easy. We can set different schedules and templates for each task."
"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."
"The solution is continuously adding more integrations to help with workflows and bot and task creation."
"I actually quite liked the no-coding functionality."
"We use it for specific cases, mainly secure file transfers, which are vital for us. And it works for us."
"We have tried other RPA solutions like UiPath or Automation Anywhere. They are fantastic products but complex, and it's hard to understand everything. It would be best if you had a skilled developer or several. Automate is easy to implement, administer, and use. It's appropriate for us because our cases are simple and easy to automate. We don't need complicated tools with many features; We prefer to get a significant ROI quickly."
"Fortra's Automate performs the job effectively and has the capability to alert us of any issues."
"It's very easy to use. That's a big selling point for it. It has got a drag-and-drop interface, so you can quickly deploy bots."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"It would be nice if you could create your own customized apps when the business needed them."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"Lacks business rules management as part of the solution."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"We really need a free development environment for customers. Building and testing automation on production isn't ideal."
"It would be an improvement if Automate had better stability tools, whether by recommending a certain amount of memory because it can be a memory hog at times."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"The documentation for errors needs improvement as many of the error messages we receive are very vague."
"While this solution is continually improving, as it is now, the user interface could use improvement when I compare it to a product like UiPath."
"I believe we need to test various OCR tools that assist in evaluating, let's say, six different customer resyncs. We analyze their spending patterns and documentations, but current OCR support has limitations, requiring highly standardized documents, which isn't always the case. With a more advanced OCR system, we could improve processes related to credit risk management and legal matters. We're exploring how to integrate Fortra's Automate with our CRM platform, taking cues from instances where Salesforce seamlessly merged with Automate. However, we use a different CRM, Insight for New Enterprise, and we're seeking ways to connect the automation process within our CRM. We aim for the automation to continue smoothly, even in instances where traditional automation methods might face hurdles."
"The documentation is not that great."
"They do not encrypt passwords, so this is an issue with HIPAA compliance."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while Fortra's Automate is ranked 5th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 21 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Fortra's Automate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortra's Automate writes "Can automate several processes with only one bot and is easy to implement, administer, and use". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas Fortra's Automate is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, MOVEit and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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