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."
"Business Process Analysis: We can simulate, optimize, and analyse business processes based on various business requirements. It assures our rolling out the best processes."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the solution to fully customize the methodology according to the company's needs, and to enforce that methodology with features like filters, semantic checks, and reports."
"The solution provides integrations to ServiceNow and other systems, flexibility of connectivity, and reporting."
"The most valuable feature in the latest versions is the connect portal, where you can do very simple modeling using the web-based portal."
"The tool has good navigation."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"The business process modeling is the most valuable feature."
"It provides a solution for integration orchestration. This solution is for any organization in the banking, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and all domains and industries."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"This product is tightly integrated with the RPA automation process."
"It is the only product that includes capture content management and a process suite, as well as rules in RPA."
"IBM has spent a lot of time on the connections between the rules engine and its other product, the core BPM platform. They've really centralized the suite as one offering now."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"They should make improvements as per customer requirements."
"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."
"User interface (UI)."
"One of the issues is, when you are defining databases, the way they use entities and relationship diagrams, the way we can define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
"In terms of improvement, it could be less complex."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
"I would like to see more streamlined install and provisioning; preferably containerized IBM BPM would be helpful."
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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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