Compare ARIS BPM vs. Nintex Workflow
ARIS BPM is ranked 3rd in Business Process Management with 19 reviews while Nintex Workflow is ranked 11th in Business Process Management with 10 reviews. ARIS BPM is rated 8.2, while Nintex Workflow is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ARIS BPM writes "Quickly gives us a picture of what business processes are being used across the entire organization, and which can be reused". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nintex Workflow writes "Streamlines automating SharePoint processes such as building sites, updating content". ARIS BPM is most compared with Bizagi, MEGA HOPEX and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, whereas Nintex Workflow is most compared with K2 blackpearl, Camunda BPM and AgilePoint. See our ARIS BPM vs. Nintex Workflow report.
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This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes. The stability of the ARIS BPM platform is quite good. The nice thing about it is the central database, where we can use all of our data. We can even manage users. The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting. 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. You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application. It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture. BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation. 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. | We were able to meet all of the requirements for functionality that were specified, and we did not experience challenges where we had to compromise on functionality. It has helped us a lot, especially during the initial phase of a project where most of the things are done on paper. It creates workflows to handle business processes. It allows us to route approvals to users without human intervention. Our solutions using Nintex has been most successful in automating HR processes because it allows you to easily and rapidly build solutions that conform to the unique business processes for each entity. This tool set makes it easy to integrate current processes and increase adoption rates and usage for the tool, as well as the process changes to update it on the fly. It provides data accuracy with fewer failures. It saves time as tasks are automated. Only Nintex has the feature which allows attachments to an email. |
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Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs). With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting. I would like to see the reporting aspects improved. Making it more customizable and easy to learn would be a benefit. One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business. Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement. Areas for improvement include sales, prospecting, shopping, customer service, after-sales (claims and advice for the client), and all processes pertaining to customer loyalty. Training is one of the important aspects for process awareness. As soon as a process is rolled out, process training is required. If ARIS could generate output in PowerPoint, it would be great for business users. | The security features for this solution need to be improved. We are currently facing a lot of issues with Nintex, and we are trying to move away from this solution. Nintex seems to be very server intensive. It is one of the reasons that we are moving to a different product on the SharePoint 2016 platform. Bring all features available from the on-premise product into the cloud version and the workflow error reporting. Converting a document from PDF to MS Word, or vice versa, needs to be improved. User interface could use some improvement. Perhaps integration with Visual Studio or SharePoint Designer would be useful. Currently, copying workflow actions from one workflow to another is not possible. Also, the Office 365 solution is not as mature as on-premise. While Nintex Workflow has pretty robust troubleshooting abilities, I think that improving the default logging and notifications would be helpful. |
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In terms of pricing, it would be nice if it were more affordable. You will never get a fixed price for this product because they will go in and ask you what kind of environment would you like to set up? How many people will you work with? How big is your organization? Today, they have a fixed price to say, "Okay, just to start the business area, buy two licenses for modeling and eight people that can look into the product." They have this kind of fixed price. It's 50,000 Danish Krone. If you divided that by about six, then you get the pricing in dollars. Still, when you are going out, negotiate and find the right price. You will never get a fixed price: "It costs this and, if you take ten of these, seven of these and eight of these, and then it costs this." No, you negotiate every time. From my point of view, no, it is not cheap, but it is not too expensive because you get this big organization behind it, technical support, and all those things. It's not so expensive to use. It's a Rolls Royce in this field, I know that. Even for small organizations, they can get so much effect from using this tool, in a very fast way, so the money will be back in the customer's pocket very fast. If you can afford it, it's the best so far. ARIS Express is free. It is on the higher side. Negotiate. Price is high so make sure you’re getting the best deal. | The annual support costs are expensive. Our maintenance costs are reduced. Offering a licensing model that allows for multiple small workflows would be a huge improvement to an already great platform. Nintex products are expensive, but valuable. Licensing in on-premise was historically based on a perpetual model, where you’d license per Web front-end. However, they are switching exclusively to a consumption (subscription) model, where you purchase the number of workflows you think you’ll use in your environment, and can scale up from there. |
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Views 18,500 Comparisons 11,579 Reviews 18 Average Words per Review 391 Avg. Rating 8.1 | Views 3,080 Comparisons 2,182 Reviews 9 Average Words per Review 306 Avg. Rating 7.7 |
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| ARIS | Nintex Workflow Platform |
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| Software AG | Nintex |
Overview | |
Software AG's ARIS Business Process Analysis Platform is ideal for organizations that want to document, analyze, standardize and improve their processes. Design, document, analyze, optimize and communicate processes to achieve business process excellence by using the ARIS Business Process Analysis Platform. With more efficient processes across business, IT and SAP systems, your Digital Enterprise can respond to changing business and market requirements more quickly. | At Nintex, our goal is to make work more meaningful by improving business processes. With the Nintex Platform, your organization can manage, automate, and optimize your business processes - all with clicks, not code. |
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Learn more about ARIS BPM | Learn more about Nintex Workflow |
Sample Customers | |
| Fujitsu, Coca Cola, ING, Credit Suisse, Electrolux | Asiacell, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, National Metrology Institute of South Africa, Norwegian Olympic Committee, Schnitzer Steel, MT Højgaard, Lippuner |
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Financial Services Firm31% Engineering Company8% University8% Energy/Utilities Company8% Software R&D Company28% Financial Services Firm14% Government6% Retailer6% | Software R&D Company26% Comms Service Provider14% Retailer13% Manufacturing Company9% |
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Small Business33% Midsize Enterprise6% Large Enterprise61% Small Business16% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise65% | Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise60% |
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