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."The tool defines the processes. It's the documentation of everything."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"Collaboration and governance over enterprise artifacts."
"ARIS has a good collaboration function. You create a portal where any authorized users can work on the models. There are simple flows for making and approving changes."
"The most valuable feature is the process documentation. For us, ARIS is a lifestyle more than a tool. It helps us learn how to think and how to plan for our system."
"Aris BPA has a lot of tools that are more professional than Bizagi."
"ARIS process modeling and analysis allows integration of end-to-end business processes with the organization's vision, strategies, and business objectives, through visual management."
"Overall, the solution has been very solid."
"The most valuable feature of Camunda Platform is its Microservices architecture, which is easily integrable with APIs."
"The architecture is good because it's a headless workflow. I can create my own frontend, and it's fully API-based."
"Provides an easy way to integrate with the architectural environment."
"The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it."
"It has an open BPM"
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share the logic within the rules engine with the business, so you can put it up for everybody to read."
"It's user friendly, much better than most tools I have seen."
"ARIS needs to make a better user interface. The user interface sucks. The problem with ARIS is that they have two interfaces for the same product."
"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)."
"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."
"If you want to create new reports then you have to use JavaScript, or ARIS script as they call it, which is beyond the competencies of most people."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"Create simple data uploader."
"The product is difficult to use for someone without prior knowledge of working with it. It requires a certain level of administration training."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"There are a few things that I'm missing. For instance, the user interface creator, which I know other systems have, like Aurea or Lombardi, which are IBM solutions. The interface creator, including the data model creator or some module which would allow the users who are not programmers or business consultants and who are not technically skilled in database and Java programming, to create data models and user interfaces."
"As we experienced some difficulties in the beginning, deployment took almost a month."
"The user interface needs some polishing because it is too technical for end-users to use it."
"The latency of API could be decreased."
"Camunda could be improved by making it easier to modify a process. You can program it to follow a process, but it is difficult to modify the process when the application is in use. It could also be improved by making it easier to use the visual platform without needing to be informed on that. Sometimes, we programmers haven't used it in the past, and it's a bit difficult to learn it."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"Lacking in forms visualization."
"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."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 68 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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