We performed a comparison between Appian and Camunda Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Appian has an edge over Camunda Platform in this comparison. It is easier to deploy and has better customer support.
"The tool is very flexible."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"The product has a very good mobile app."
"Technical support has been amazing overall."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"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."
"I like everything about the entire BPM that comes with the BPM suite."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable features are the workflow, the task list, and the modeler where we use VPN."
"We are using the BPMN engine of Camunda; we are not using the user interface. We are using just the engine, the back end of this. For us, it is working quite well."
"It is open-source. It supports microservice orchestration. This is what we are really interested in. We can customize our products depending on the use cases."
"It is quite easy to build a simple process without any knowledge of programming."
"The solution is good for data models."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"Appian has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"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."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"I wouldn't say their response time is long, but it could be quicker."
"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."
"The solution could improve by being more responsive when dealing with large quantities of data. Additionally, they can make the decision or rules engine better. It cannot handle too many rules or too many decisions at once."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"The only drawback is the time that it takes to have a complete set of workflows implemented on the Camunda platform."
"In the future, I would definitely like to see the process administration (migration, audit, tracking) and process evaluation (optimize) features added to the community edition."
"We have faced problems with the performance."
"The solution's pricing and scalability could be improved."
"They could provide more documentation regarding the integration of different programming languages."
"As we experienced some difficulties in the beginning, deployment took almost a month."
"In the latest version, there are certain workflow nodes that are missing. Camunda should bring those back, or rather, develop them quickly."
"They have a migration plugin that can be used to migrate from one BPM to another BPM. It is in the beta stage since last year. If they can make it available in the market, it would be great. We are going to have a couple of migration projects for migrating from IBM BPM to Camunda, and this plugin would be useful. I have already discussed this with them two weeks ago and asked them to look into this and add it as a feature. We are expecting this plugin to be available in the next version. This is the only requirement we have at present. They keep on coming up with different features, which is helping us a lot. Its latest release that came out last month was awesome."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews while Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 69 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Camunda 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 Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, ServiceNow, Pega BPM and Mendix, whereas Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and Bonita. See our Appian vs. Camunda report.
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