We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."The tool defines the processes. It's the documentation of everything."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"The technical support is good."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"No matter what somebody's technical experience level is, the tool can start adding value immediately. Even if that is just an analyst who doesn't have any technical background, they can use some of these no quote accelerators to get things from ideation to deployment in a matter of minutes."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process."
"It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"The user experience's usability (in general) should be improved as the tool is updated."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"Since this is a design tool, seamless interface to make the process flows executable."
"The tool needs to improve its support since they take long to respond."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."
"Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow can improve UI flexibility and integration. Additionally, the solutions from IBM have to provide a paperless solution, allowing for digital versions of documents."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions and IBM Case Foundation. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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