We performed a comparison between Appian and CA Process Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."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."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"Another advantage of this tool is its reports and records. You can maintain dashboards, layouts. If you with a Java solution, it takes six months time. If you use this tool, you can finish in one or one and a half months' time."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"There is no need to worry about vulnerabilities in the system, because Appian built a secure system."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"It provides us with real-time data on all connected systems in terms of how they're integrated with each other and how they are performing in a workflow manner."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"I would like to see more features for enterprises. They would also benefit from adding documentation and training on their site."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"It needs auto-triggering of workflows based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)."
"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
"Somehow the product group within CA left the product dry from some regular expression functionality."
"Make some of the features more open source that way developers can have more flexibility."
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Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 57 reviews while CA Process Automation is ranked 29th in Process Automation. Appian is rated 8.4, while CA Process Automation is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA Process Automation writes "Provides the ability to import objects as new versions of existing objects and to make the prior version the current version". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas CA Process Automation is most compared with BMC TrueSight Orchestration.
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