We performed a comparison between Appian and ARIS BPA 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."Appian is easy to install and set up, and it does not come out with your audit. It has accessible process orchestration and process management. With Appian, the time to market is much faster."
"Appian's most valuable feature is that we can create end-to-end process workflows with minimum turnaround."
"In terms of interface, it's very good. In terms of infrastructure, it's amazing and already using multiple tools behind the scenes. It's a low-code platform, so it's very easy to implement."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"The setup is easy."
"The tool defines the processes. It's the documentation of everything."
"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."
"Collaboration and governance over enterprise artifacts."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"you want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The tool has good navigation."
"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."
"Appian could include other applications that we could reuse for other customers, CRM for example."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"The solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"Even though the company has made great improvements in online documentation, featuring rich material which includes case studies of real-life use cases, the material could definitely be better in quality and coverage of use cases."
"The tool needs to improve its support since they take long to respond."
"There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
"The product is difficult to use for someone without prior knowledge of working with it. It requires a certain level of administration training."
"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."
"I use it strictly for developing the business process model. I don't use it for the actual automation. I do that with Vtenext. I have standardized on Vtenext, and I don't use ARIS BPM anymore. The Vtenext UI is just as good, and it is much more tightly coupled to the underlying object model. I can get more done in one session with Vtenext rather than first going to ARIS BPM, then importing, and having to edit it for tight coupling."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while ARIS BPA 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 ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and SAP Signavio Process Manager, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and iServer. See our ARIS BPA vs. Appian report.
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