We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and SAP Signavio Process Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because ARIS BPA is more expensive, has a more difficult initial setup, and is less user friendly, SAP Signavio Process Manager ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"The most valuable features are business process modeling 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."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"The shared repository allows for cross-functional cooperation instead of doing things in a silo. You can operate cross-functionally and really work end-to-end, instead of dividing everything up on a functional basis."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"I have done a lot of modeling over quite a number of years, and I think that the modeling capabilities in Signavio are state of the art."
"Process management/Process governance is what we think Signavio is very good at."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The formatting features are quite good because you can create very complex models, but you can easily clean them up so that they look very nice."
"The most valuable feature for me is usability."
"Process Manager is really helpful in building process maps. Creating them is really easy; the program is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the glossary. It is really nice because all of the information is centralized, and that is a big help to the company."
"The feature that I like the most is the collaboration hub, where every user or every employee can see the process in the overview."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved and the initial setup should be made easy."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."
"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."
"The user management functionality in Process Manager is not as user friendly as the one in the Collaboration Hub."
"It could be more flexible from a customization point of view, where the user is able to display only whatever he needs."
"Two executives cannot work on one modeling process simultaneously."
"I find it difficult to figure out how I can better align this solution with my KPIs."
"There are some small graphical bugs, but they are addressed immediately by Signavio to their product development team."
"We sometimes experience downtime or a dropped connection, so I think that the stability can be improved for the SaaS solution."
"The reporting is too slow and there is a limit of 250 processes."
"There are a few bugs when you use the Microsoft Surface Hub with the big screen."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 57 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. 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 SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". ARIS BPA is most compared with ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda, Bizagi and Visio, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, Camunda, Visio, ADONIS and UiPath Process Mining. See our ARIS BPA vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
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You can export all process model attributes (including custom attributes) to Excel. For example, we set a process maturity attribute against our processes and then extract it against process sponsors and owners.
Selection and filtering are done in Excel, not in the reporting tool. There are quite a few standard reports as well. You can import data to the repository for use in process attributes (standard or custom) - we did this with our process roles. You could do it with any other layer of your business or technical architecture.
You can create process links for both vertical drop-down and lateral links between processes which end users can navigate. Also, you can hide or show attributes and custom attributes for different user groups who browse the published architecture.
I don't understand what is meant by "...create a custom report for push..." Perhaps you mean schedule reports for automatic dissemination? If so, no you can't do that. However, I'm aware that an API can be purchased that will likely allow you to do much more in the way of integration and automation but we don't have that.
I hope this helps.