We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM BPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."you want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"I am impressed with the tool's integration. It also facilitates collaboration in the organization."
"The tool has good navigation."
"From an architectural point of view, when you're looking at the business area, you can find all the information you have to use as an architect."
"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."
"It helps to maintain a single source of truth regarding the processes followed within an organization."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"It is being able to see the process, and understanding what the process is versus having to bury it in code somewhere."
"The solution is stable."
"The possibility to add Java code as embedded .jar, that increases the flexibility of the solution."
"It makes the company business processes work more efficiently."
"The most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"Scalability is good. In the time that I have been there, we have added more JVMs to help with the increased workload, so it does scale."
"Provides the power to understand and automate processes."
"I like the APIs and the BPM coach is a good tool. But if I had to pick one, it would be the API."
"Create simple data uploader."
"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)."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"Making it more customizable and easy to learn would be a benefit."
"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."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"If you want to use IBM BPM, you will have to invest a lot of money for licenses and you need to learn that there are limitations in developing applications. You cannot create anything you want."
"We are a government organization, and we are the largest government power sector in India. We generate around 30% of power in India. Therefore, our processes are quite complex. Although IBM BPM is a low-code or no-code software, if you want to have extremely complex workflows, just the business process diagrams are not helpful in creating those workflows. While implementing complex workflows, only the process flow diagrams did not help us. We had to write a lot of Java scripts and Java queries to achieve what we wanted. Its integration capabilities with the SAP environment have to be improved. At present, we are only talking at the web services environment level. Its price also needs to be improved. It is currently expensive. Previously, Active Directory required a heterogeneous environment, but now they want a homogeneous environment. We had onboarded employees through Microsoft Active Directory, and now I have to implement Microsoft AD only from the cloud for my vendors."
"The solution can improve integration with SAP, CRM, and Salesforce, which is not capital-intensive."
"The debugging needs improvement. There is some confusion surrounding the debugging."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"The integration could be improved."
"I would say the scalability is very good but it's not perfect. It is much more scalable than it has been in the past but... it does require some work to keep it stable. So that is an area that should be improved."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. 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 IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Cloud Pak for Automation. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM BPM report.
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