We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Camunda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It helps to maintain a single source of truth regarding the processes followed within an organization."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."
"The technical support is good."
"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"The integration with almost any language, product, and even human tasks, is valuable. It's very seamless to integrate into existing systems. It doesn't require you to rewrite a lot of your existing system. That's where it really stands out."
"The solution is useful for small projects."
"We are documenting all of the processors and VPN. Then we are sharing it with our business users."
"It is very user-friendly compared to IBM BPM. It's much simpler – it's more streamlined. That means even non-technical departments can use it."
"The headless nature of the Camunda Platform is something that has helped us to build our own logic and platforms on it."
"The modeler is useful for creating the flow. The way to access the data through their REST API is also valuable. This is what we're using right now."
"One reason we selected Camunda or Cloud/DB is that it comes with the support of the BPMN notation, which helps to define processes in a standard manner. Another reason was that Camunda Cloud, as the name says, is designed for a new cloud era."
"The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it."
"Making it more customizable and easy to learn would be a benefit."
"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."
"The solution is difficult and not very exciting to learn."
"While the dashboarding solution for integrating all kinds of process-related information from company sources other than ARIS is getting ever better, my personal wish would be to have a module that is more targeted to an Agile implementation of some modeled processes (model–to-execute)."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the cross and upselling of modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"I would like to see the forms engine available in the open-source version of this solution."
"It has a Postgres database at the backend, and it is very difficult to scale if you increase the number of processes running. We did hit some barriers. We were able to overcome them, but it was a problem. Camunda has another product called Camunda Cloud, which supposedly doesn't have the same scalability problems, but we are not using Camunda Cloud because the set of features is smaller than Camunda On-Premises. So, its scalability can be improved. Because it has a single database, it is more difficult to scale if you have a huge success."
"I would like to see better pricing."
"The support definitely can be improved. Apart from that, the language should be extendable to other platforms. If I want to write, I'll run a different platform, like Python code on top of it, or COBOL code on top of it, and it should support those languages."
"In terms of features, it meets my needs, but I would like Camunda to have an office in Brazil and provide training in Portuguese. They should provide regional support and training courses in Portuguese."
"We have faced problems with the performance."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 69 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Camunda is rated 8.2. 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 Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi and Visio, whereas Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow. See our ARIS BPA vs. Camunda report.
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