We performed a comparison between Appian and Oracle BPEL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"Technical support has been amazing overall."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"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."
"Appian is easy to install and set up, and it does not come out with your audit. It has accessible process orchestration and process management. With Appian, the time to market is much faster."
"The product has everything we need."
"What I find the most valuable about Oracle BPEL is that it saves me time."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"I wouldn't say their response time is long, but it could be quicker."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"It is also not easy to learn. Training tutorials could be improved."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Some user-defined functions for transformation must be added to the next release of the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see REST improved and new technologies for microservices. I'd like to see more containers for separating containers."
Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 57 reviews while Oracle BPEL is ranked 16th in Process Automation with 2 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Oracle BPEL is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle BPEL writes "A highly scalable solution that provides various features for the execution of business processes". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas Oracle BPEL is most compared with Camunda, BizTalk Server and Bonita. See our Appian vs. Oracle BPEL report.
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