We performed a comparison between Appian and Fortra's Automate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"It's a stable product."
"Form building capabilities and well thought out process modelling are key points to this product."
"The product has a very good mobile app."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"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."
"I like the interface; it makes managing automation easy. We can set different schedules and templates for each task."
"The most valuable features for my client are timing and scheduling."
"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."
"Fortra's Automate performs the job effectively and has the capability to alert us of any issues."
"This product is quite easy to install, learn, and use, with our new employees being able to start using it in projects for clients after only two weeks of internal training."
"The best feature of Automate is its ease of use, which is a major selling point."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"I would like to see some better web automation, a wizard like the one in the product WinAutomation would be very nice."
"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."
"The solution has a very weak knowledge base."
"We really need a free development environment for customers. Building and testing automation on production isn't ideal."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"Sometimes when we communicate with the ERP system and there is an issue, we are not always aware of the specifics of Automate and the source of the problem."
"The workflow for variables could be better. The input and output of task-level variables could be made a little clearer in terms of passing those around from one task to another upon success, etc. Things like that could be a little easier potentially."
"They do not encrypt passwords, so this is an issue with HIPAA compliance."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 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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