We performed a comparison between Appian and OpenText 360 for SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a lot of strong features for the financial industry, it is very easy to use."
"Call Web Service Smart Service - Web service integrations with other systems are super simple and fast to create, supported by low code menus."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"SAIL (Self-Assembling Interface Layer), a scripting language provided by Appian. It is the equivalent of JS and CSS. It allows creation of complex UIs which are also responsive. With SAIL, we have a single language for both the UI logic and its appearance. UI components can be built as reusable components and used in multiple UI interfaces."
"The application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"Process Modeling enables creation of business process workflows. You can create complex business workflows in a visual manner, and it is also easy to debug/monitor."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"It's all now on cloud subscription, so you can use all the features without worrying about making the system updates patches."
"The collaborative environment for long-term archival or record management is great."
"The fact that it allows for the internal sharing of information is very good."
"This solution has good connection and we do not need to migrate everything in order to protect the repository."
"The most valuable feature of OpenText 360 for SharePoint is its performance. The solution is one of the best in the market if you search the internet."
"The most valuable features are collaboration, traceability, retention of documents, and search."
"The product has a strong and easy integration with Teams."
"OpenText 360's best features are platform independence and its performance when searching large numbers of documents."
"I would like to see more complete university tools. For example, with UiPath, I have had a good experience related to a free course in order to provide some users some different levels of knowledge. This extra training helps users not only use the solution but to develop further within the tool."
"My only request is that they decrease the license costs."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"I would like to see more features for enterprises. They would also benefit from adding documentation and training on their site."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"Its licensing needs to be simplified. Currently, its licensing is very complex. It contains a number of pieces, and you have to be an expert in reading all the conditions in the license. They should simplify the licensing and make it easier to understand. It would make a customer's life easier."
"An area for improvement would be how the platform handles large volumes of documents. It also doesn't provide a very good, robust backup and restore capacity. In the next release, I would like the search technology to be improved."
"They are not going for any add-ons right now. It's the same version we are still using and there is no plan of upgrading and/or creating any add-ons at all."
"The platform's workflows could be more intuitive and easier to use."
"Integration is an area where the solution lacks."
"We have a very good time to market tool, and the development platform should be made user-friendly. Mostly, it's just support."
"They need to come with more out of the box solutions, rather than depending on customers to develop them."
"OpenText 360 is generally stable, though there are sometimes issues with document size or format."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews while OpenText 360 for SharePoint is ranked 15th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 12 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while OpenText 360 for SharePoint is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText 360 for SharePoint writes "A great, collaborative environment with scalability for many products". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas OpenText 360 for SharePoint is most compared with Apache Airflow, IBM BPM, Bizagi and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms. See our Appian vs. OpenText 360 for SharePoint report.
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Appian, Open Text and Oracle are good BPMs, but they require significant participation from specialists for their implementation, and more importantly for their continuous improvement, which makes them costly.
On the other hand, other BPMs such as Bizagi claim to not need any programming to design, implement and run the processes, but this is generally only the case with very simple processes or when the automations are minimal.
For a BPMS to be able to create complex processes without requiring programming, it must internally contain the options that allow the same possibilities as the programming.
Every BPMS in the market offers help tools (which are increasingly more powerful) to make the modeling easier, but it is very difficult that they are capable of completely substituting the programming.
From my experience, AuraPortal is the only BPM solution that requires absolutely no programming.
It must be taken into account that selecting the right BPM solution greatly depends on the project at hand, and that the comparatives are always subjective, but here is a report about the most well known BPMs in the market where AuraPortal has been ranked in the top position:
www.auraportal.com
Thanks Andy..your inputs are helpful...
Many Thanks
Pratyush
Hi Pratyush,
I don't know about pricing relative to competitors. Sorry.
Re: ECM, yes, definitely.. Check out this link: www.appian.com
Best regards,
Andy
Thanks Andy. Would you have an idea as to how Appian priced compared to other BPM suit? Does it also offer Enterprise content management capabilities?
Many Thanks
Pratysuh
Hi Pratyush, fyi: www.bizagi.com
In 2007 I've modeled new loan processes for a online bank with this tool. I've worked together with the CEO of bizagi, Gustavo Gomez!
You're welcome
Kurt
Our only experience is with Appian, for which we are a Value Added Service Provider, and with a smaller, Google Docs-based workflow engine called KiSSFLOW. If you're considering the former then the latter won't meet your needs, so let's focus on Appian.
We became involved with Appian because of how impressed we were with its BPM Suite in terms of its portability, functionality and easy-to-learn customization capabilities. Basically, it can do what you need it to do, it is available where you and your users need it to be and setting up workflows is a snap.
Let me know if we can help you.
Thanks Kurt. I have never heard Bizagi. I would appreciate of you can put your Bizagi experience in your response. Maybe that may turn out to be better proposition for us...
Many Thanks
Pratyush
Hi, I'm sorry but I don't have any experience with Apian, Open Text and Oracle BPM Solutions. Only with Bizagi! I hope You will get better answers