We performed a comparison between Appian and vCenter Orchestrator 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."The most valuable feature is business automation."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"It's a stable product."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"The open, flexible architecture has brought in the agile computing environment along with better Dr capabilities. Automation management and operational tasks across VMware and third-party applications, like our HMIS and other business productivity applications, have delivered peace of mind."
"The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"We can scale the solution."
"It has the best workflow feature."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The stability of the product is very good."
"It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"My only request is that they decrease the license costs."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."
"I would like to see more automation added in the future."
"The cost of the solution is high."
"vCenter Orchestrator's debugging capacity could be improved."
"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."
"Mainly VMware integrates with other products, but there is no easy way to link with other products from a different vendor. We can integrate with other products from the same vendors fairly well, but if they could make it so integration is easier with other vendors, that would really help."
"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 57 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while vCenter Orchestrator 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 vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our Appian vs. vCenter Orchestrator report.
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