We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Avolution ABACUS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Sparx Systems and others in Business Process Design."The tool has good navigation."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the solution to fully customize the methodology according to the company's needs, and to enforce that methodology with features like filters, semantic checks, and reports."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"The ease of use is the most valuable. I have tried a number of BPMN packages, and I find the user interface of ARIS BPM easier and more intuitive than others. If your team is knowledgeable on BPMN, it is really pretty easy to figure out on your own because it adheres to the standards extremely well. I have tried Bizagi, BizFlow, and a variety of such solutions, and I just liked ARIS BPM better."
"It's more than just an enterprise architecture tool as it has a lot of nice features, e.g. messaging, simulation, etc."
"Scalable and stable tool for roadmapping and modeling, with a good dashboard, end-to-end impact analysis, and portfolio management."
"There are a lot of different features, but the business/decision-maker feature, visibility, and dashboards are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the traceability, you can trace any object to the other."
"If you face new challenges or issues then you can dynamically customize according to the business needs."
"The ease of modeling and the ease of showing interconnectivity and relationships is the most valuable. It is fairly simple and out of the box. It is customizable in many ways. It is a pretty good tool."
"The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"The solution is difficult and not very exciting to learn."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"Since this is a design tool, seamless interface to make the process flows executable."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"I use reference models, which are taxonomies, in my EA work. It is a reference model/taxonomy of things with capabilities, sub capabilities, and sub-sub capabilities, so you're working it down. I haven't yet found a simple way to implement that in Abacus. It could be that it is there, but I don't know how to do it."
"While this is one of the most powerful tools on the market it does not integrate well with Microsoft Office or others."
"Their local presence in the Middle East could be scaled more, particularly in customer service. It would be good if they'd also have mobile dashboards for executive management out of the box."
"It doesn't have the simulation capability, which would be helpful in doing some business process analysis and improvements."
"It is vastly scalable but you can't run it on a Mac or Linux so it has limitations."
"The usability of the tool is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The company needs to update the UML version they are using for the product as it is quite old."
"Avolution ABACUS has the drawback of needing data filtering at the development level, unlike some tools that offer filtering at deployment. Two areas where Avolution ABACUS could be improved are regional support and flexibility in model selection. Sometimes, it's challenging to access support or updates in certain regions, which can slow down progress. Additionally, it would be beneficial if the tool allowed more flexibility in selecting multiple models within a single unit."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Avolution ABACUS is ranked 8th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 13 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Avolution ABACUS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Avolution ABACUS writes " An out of the box tool that creates reports on the fly that can help your client make better decisions". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas Avolution ABACUS is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, MEGA HOPEX, Visio and BiZZdesign HoriZZon.
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