Compare Appian vs. Camunda BPM
Appian is ranked 7th in Business Process Management with 11 reviews while Camunda BPM is ranked 4th in Business Process Management with 10 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Camunda BPM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "We are creating workflows in an agile manner". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Camunda BPM writes "BPMN 2.0 compliant, and the fact it's open source enables us to modify functionality, add features". Appian is most compared with Pega BPM, ServiceNow and Camunda BPM, whereas Camunda BPM is most compared with Bonita, IBM BPM and Bizagi. See our Appian vs. Camunda BPM report.
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The process models provide self-documenting systems. Since implementing we have had a faster time to solution, with fewer resources needed. Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored. Form building capabilities and well thought out process modelling are key points to this product. 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. There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements. Call Web Service Smart Service - Web service integrations with other systems are super simple and fast to create, supported by low code menus. Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files. | The solution is easily compatible with HTML forms and HTML language programming and that is the most significant part. When I compare it with other BPM tools, like IBM, it is great, open source, and free when you use the community version. The most valuable feature is the ability to share the logic within the rules engine with the business, so you can put it up for everybody to read. The number of client implementations and cross-language capabilities to support multiple frameworks is very pluggable compared to Pega. It's also more portable. I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features. We are documenting all of the processors and VPN. Then we are sharing it with our business users. For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly. We have a lot of users, almost 1,800, and we needed something affordable, stable and something that could be used by a large financial company. This solution truly fit the bill. |
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My only request is that they decrease the license costs. We would like to have more granular control for interface styling. The documentation needs to be improved. Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built. 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. A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose. The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards. It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem. | I would also like a very easy to use form builder. I would like to have a feature for audit logging, audit logs and audit log management. And some history of use for the audit logs. I would like to see the forms engine available in the open-source version of this solution. The user interface needs improvement. It should be more tailored to the end-user and offer a better user experience design over the user interface itself. I would say that Camunda should actually focus on small cases as well. There's a lot of space out there, for small businesses. If they can, they should cater to them. When you search for Camunda BPM resources or books on how to utilize Camunda BPM, it is lacking. When it comes to Alfresco, there are thousands of resources that can help you to utilize within AWS and its Group Services. I would like to see the usage of Camunda BPM on Amazon Web Services be improved. The GUI needs to be improved, with more configuration options. If Camunda could develop something that creates user forms that would be a great feature to have. They also need to improve the UI. |
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The cost depends on the number of users, although I recommend taking an unlimited license. It's good value for the price. I think that if somebody is really serious at looking at business value, then by all means, the product is well worth the value. You get representative business value for the price that you pay for the product, and for the implementation of the product. Product pricing compared to some of the earlier vendors, like IBM, CA, and Oracle, is quite well-priced. Although, we do feel that as we increase the number of users and the workload increases, we will have to spend more. We will have to have a dialogue or negotiate a price for future use. To start with, it is a reasonable price. As we go ahead, we will have to make sure the costs are inline with our expectations as we grow our user base and workloads. | Camunda is much cheaper. We are using the open-source version of this solution. It is less cost-prohibitive than other solutions on the market. This solution was in our price range. |
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Views 10,829 Comparisons 7,544 Reviews 12 Average Words per Review 475 Avg. Rating 8.5 | Views 24,058 Comparisons 15,939 Reviews 8 Average Words per Review 516 Avg. Rating 7.9 |
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| Appian BPM, Appian AnyWhere, Appian Enterprise BPMS | |
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Overview | |
| With Appian, your organization can rapidly build, deploy, use, and scale problem-solving apps. And with the flexibility of on-premises and cloud portability, you'll always address your unique challenges the way that makes the most sense for you. | Camunda BPM is a light-weight, open source platform for Business Process Management. It is a perfect match for general software development and provides powerful business-IT-alignment based on BPMN for structured workflows, CMMN for less structured cases and DMN for business rules. Typical use cases for Camunda BPM are:
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Sample Customers | |
| Hansard Global plc, Punch Taverns, Pirelli, Crawford & Company, EDP Renewables, Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning (, Bank of Tennessee | AT&T Inc., Allianz Indonesia, Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG, CSS Insurance, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, VHV Group, freenet Group, Swisscom AG, Zalando SE, Accruent |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm57% University14% Transportation Company14% Healthcare Company14% Financial Services Firm21% Software R&D Company16% Comms Service Provider8% Transportation Company7% | Non Profit29% Financial Services Firm29% Government14% Construction Company14% Software R&D Company28% Financial Services Firm17% Comms Service Provider10% Media Company6% |
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Small Business38% Midsize Enterprise13% Large Enterprise50% Small Business10% Midsize Enterprise16% Large Enterprise74% | Small Business33% Midsize Enterprise17% Large Enterprise50% Small Business5% Midsize Enterprise15% Large Enterprise80% |
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