We performed a comparison between Appian and OpenText 360 for SharePoint 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 product's most valuable feature is the low code aspect of development. We can develop an end-to-end VPN solution using a single platform."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"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 application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"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."
"The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"It's all now on cloud subscription, so you can use all the features without worrying about making the system updates patches."
"OpenText 360's best features are platform independence and its performance when searching large numbers of documents."
"We have manual processes, so the workflow enables us to automate a number of these processes."
"This solution has good connection and we do not need to migrate everything in order to protect the repository."
"The product has a strong and easy integration with Teams."
"The fact that it allows for the internal sharing of information is very good."
"The fact that you can see and create something that fits your business is the most valuable thing in this platform. It is a customizable product, so it fits your needs."
"In terms of its most valuable features, this solution, in general, will provide all you need and it's very convenient to use. We can share our details to collaborative platforms. We can give access to users. It's pretty flexible."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"The tool itself is pretty good, but the main area that we struggled with was the backend. The frontend development is really good, but the backend modeling can be streamlined a little bit. There are good integrations, but tying them through the data layer and then up into the frontend could be improved a little bit. It does read/write on the data source, and you can configure it to just write or just read, but there is a little bit of work involved."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"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."
"We would like to have more granular control for interface styling."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"We have a very good time to market tool, and the development platform should be made user-friendly. Mostly, it's just support."
"They need to come with more out of the box solutions, rather than depending on customers to develop them."
"Its licensing needs to be simplified. Currently, its licensing is very complex. It contains a number of pieces, and you have to be an expert in reading all the conditions in the license. They should simplify the licensing and make it easier to understand. It would make a customer's life easier."
"Integration is an area where the solution lacks."
"An area for improvement would be how the platform handles large volumes of documents. It also doesn't provide a very good, robust backup and restore capacity. In the next release, I would like the search technology to be improved."
"The platform's workflows could be more intuitive and easier to use."
"If I have to really create an internal knowledge management portal, if I have to compare SharePoint and WordPress, WordPress is far, far better in regard to the SharePoint option."
"They are not going for any add-ons right now. It's the same version we are still using and there is no plan of upgrading and/or creating any add-ons at all."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while OpenText 360 for SharePoint is ranked 14th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 12 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while OpenText 360 for SharePoint is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText 360 for SharePoint writes "A great, collaborative environment with scalability for many products". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas OpenText 360 for SharePoint is most compared with Apache Airflow, IBM BPM, Bizagi, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms and Comindware Tracker. See our Appian vs. OpenText 360 for SharePoint report.
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Appian, Open Text and Oracle are good BPMs, but they require significant participation from specialists for their implementation, and more importantly for their continuous improvement, which makes them costly.
On the other hand, other BPMs such as Bizagi claim to not need any programming to design, implement and run the processes, but this is generally only the case with very simple processes or when the automations are minimal.
For a BPMS to be able to create complex processes without requiring programming, it must internally contain the options that allow the same possibilities as the programming.
Every BPMS in the market offers help tools (which are increasingly more powerful) to make the modeling easier, but it is very difficult that they are capable of completely substituting the programming.
From my experience, AuraPortal is the only BPM solution that requires absolutely no programming.
It must be taken into account that selecting the right BPM solution greatly depends on the project at hand, and that the comparatives are always subjective, but here is a report about the most well known BPMs in the market where AuraPortal has been ranked in the top position:
http://www.auraportal.com/en/auraportal-ranked-no-1-by-the-analysts
Thanks Andy..your inputs are helpful...
Many Thanks
Pratyush
Hi Pratyush,
I don't know about pricing relative to competitors. Sorry.
Re: ECM, yes, definitely.. Check out this link: http://www.appian.com/bpm-software/bpm-for-designers/bpm-content-management.jsp
Best regards,
Andy
Thanks Andy. Would you have an idea as to how Appian priced compared to other BPM suit? Does it also offer Enterprise content management capabilities?
Many Thanks
Pratysuh
Hi Pratyush, fyi: http://www.bizagi.com/
In 2007 I've modeled new loan processes for a online bank with this tool. I've worked together with the CEO of bizagi, Gustavo Gomez!
You're welcome
Kurt
Our only experience is with Appian, for which we are a Value Added Service Provider, and with a smaller, Google Docs-based workflow engine called KiSSFLOW. If you're considering the former then the latter won't meet your needs, so let's focus on Appian.
We became involved with Appian because of how impressed we were with its BPM Suite in terms of its portability, functionality and easy-to-learn customization capabilities. Basically, it can do what you need it to do, it is available where you and your users need it to be and setting up workflows is a snap.
Let me know if we can help you.
Thanks Kurt. I have never heard Bizagi. I would appreciate of you can put your Bizagi experience in your response. Maybe that may turn out to be better proposition for us...
Many Thanks
Pratyush
Hi, I'm sorry but I don't have any experience with Apian, Open Text and Oracle BPM Solutions. Only with Bizagi! I hope You will get better answers