We performed a comparison between Appian and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"It has good integrations. We were looking for out-of-the-box integration with both on-prem and publicly accessible data sources. We needed integration with the cloud, OData, our REST API feed, and then on-prem passthrough to go to a SQL database or on-prem APIs through Azure local deployment, etc."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"It reduces development time in half making us more efficient."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"With low-code, we don't need a lot of coding, and then from the plumbing perspective, there is a complete CI/CD pipeline that exists within Appian that can be leveraged for open deployment."
"It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management."
"It gives us the ability to create toolkits and use them across many different applications. It allows us to write things one time, instead of having to write a diary for every single different application. We can write at once and reuse it."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through."
"We would like to have more granular control for interface styling."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"The biggest areas of improvement would be in facilitating team development, DevOps, and integration with typical tools used in enterprise development (Jenkins, Subversion, etc.)"
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"I feel that the features are not user-friendly."
"I would like to see more streamlined install and provisioning; preferably containerized IBM BPM would be helpful."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow can improve UI flexibility and integration. Additionally, the solutions from IBM have to provide a paperless solution, allowing for digital versions of documents."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
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Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions and Nintex Process Platform. See our Appian vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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