We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Blueworks Live based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The technical support is good."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"The solution provides integrations to ServiceNow and other systems, flexibility of connectivity, and reporting."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."
"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."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"Collaboration and governance over enterprise artifacts."
"The simulation engine and SAP integration are technically very robust."
"It enables decisions based upon processes that we do model, and ultimately move forward with."
"IBM Blueworks Live is cloud-based and provides easy access to all your processes in one place."
"The licenses are transferrable between different users."
"It's very easy, very quick to create a process map. It has templates. The look and feel is very nice. What we want to achieve out of the process map, we can achieve it using Blueworks."
"The ease of documenting and digitizing the processes was valuable to us."
"In terms of the collaboration features, from the point of discovery, it was useful to go to load up the policies and the rule sets that the client had. And in terms of exploring options and being able to model a variety of different processes, that was incredibly useful as well."
"Valuable features include real-time modeling and design work, the ability to perform workshops with clients in real-time with the tool, and getting instant output."
"The stability is pretty good. It is highly available, which is key. You don't lose your work and can autosave."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
"Create simple data uploader."
"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."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"Some improvements have been done, after Software AG acquired ARIS, but I don't believe it's still integrated with the other tool WebMethods in a perfect way."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"The solution is a very basic discovery product so it doesn't have that much modeling capability. This can be improved."
"I would like to see integration with ERP systems. This would help us to simulate the process and see where the problems are. Though IBM Blueworks Live is a good tool for documenting, it is not good for simulating."
"It is BPMN-compliant but the tool needs to be more involved to get into a completely 2.0 oriented tool. It has a few things but it's not the complete BPMN model."
"We would like the ability to add additional custom colors. We would like to color additional items to add notes to the blueprint."
"The initial setup is neither straightforward nor complex however you do need to know what you are doing."
"The objects that the solution creates are not unique."
"IBM Blueworks is BPMN 2.0 compliant, but it does not adapt to the overarching BPMN 2.0 concepts."
"The user interface is quite easy at first but process analysts soon run into roadblocks of limited functionality, which is disappointing."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Blueworks Live 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 IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with Visio, SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Blueworks Live report.
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