We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and PTC Windchill based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Software AG and others in Business Process Design."The BPMN notation and the share flow through users. It is nice to see all flows in a common, shared space for all the stakeholders to view the same thing and the same language."
"The solution provides integrations to ServiceNow and other systems, flexibility of connectivity, and reporting."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"The capability to integrate all information of the business and to generate simulations of processes. It can analyze the model of operations quickly."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"I like how the product integrates with other technical solutions."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"Since this is a design tool, seamless interface to make the process flows executable."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"The standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."
"Some parts of the system are exclusive, so we can't work with them."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while PTC Windchill is ranked 22nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while PTC Windchill is rated 5.0. 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 PTC Windchill writes "Pricy and tough to integrate with some solutions, though it provided essential support for workflows". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas PTC Windchill is most compared with Intralink, Omnify Empower PLM, Siemens PLM TeamCenter, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Aras Innovator.
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