We performed a comparison between Appian, ARIS BPA, and Camunda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Apache and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"Good workflow engines that bridge the gaps of processes."
"Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"Since implementing we have had a faster time to solution, with fewer resources needed."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"The simulation engine and SAP integration are technically very robust."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"The stability of the ARIS BPM platform is quite good. The nice thing about it is the central database, where we can use all of our data. We can even manage users."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"The flexibility is great."
"The best feature is the automation."
"We have been able to save costs using this solution compared to the product we used before."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"It allows me to present or to demonstrate the business process flow, visually, without having to resort to PowerPoint, Visio, or other products."
"I love that Camunda is a very developer-friendly platform, and my customers have evaluated the pricing as reasonable."
"It is quite easy to build a simple process without any knowledge of programming."
"The most valuable feature is that, with a visual system, you can try to have a process client before beginning the programming for the application."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"It is also not easy to learn. Training tutorials could be improved."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Occasionally, certain pre-made modules may not be necessary and customers may desire greater customization options. Instead of being limited to pre-designed features, they may prefer a more flexible version that allows for greater customization."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"I would like to see more features for enterprises. They would also benefit from adding documentation and training on their site."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"Regarding stability, when there are any customized settings being done at customer end - post upgrade to newer versions - it makes the customer environment unstable for a short duration."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."
"I had this decentralization mission where I had some friendly fights with the consultants of Software AG. My opinion was the business department should be able to publish their processes and do all their evaluation stuff in ARCM themselves. It has to be a one stop shop. I want a one stop shop to go from ARIS BPM to ARIS ARCM, because having everything go through that would be an improvement due to the inputs that we made with Software AG. They will make it possible that the trigger sent from BPM to ARCM will start their object generation."
"We have faced problems with the performance."
"If there were some industry templates it would have helped significantly, because it is similar to a process map for a domain. That is what we are currently creating, a domain-relevant process map."
"They could provide more documentation regarding the integration of different programming languages."
"I don't like the UI of the Camunda Platform, I have found the Signavio solution to be much better for me to create the process designs and execute them. Additionally, I have found the tools in the Camunda Platform are not compatible with some of my other tools. They should improve this in the future."
"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"Without a proper frontend, the business cannot effectively use the platform."