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."Process Modeling or Process Mapping/Documentation. This is the most comprehensive tool for capturing the process details. Any organization who wants to embark on a BPM journey, process mapping/documentation, lays the foundation for the BPM led implementation."
"It helps the business make an informed decision."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"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."
"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"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 performs the basic tasks that are required for the BBM solution as part of the overall integration with ECM or enterprise contact management."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"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 stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"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 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."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"I use it strictly for developing the business process model. I don't use it for the actual automation. I do that with Vtenext. I have standardized on Vtenext, and I don't use ARIS BPM anymore. The Vtenext UI is just as good, and it is much more tightly coupled to the underlying object model. I can get more done in one session with Vtenext rather than first going to ARIS BPM, then importing, and having to edit it for tight coupling."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"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."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"Requires a lot of customization code writing which could be reduced."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
"The SCADA Systems are very sophisticated and have a hard time integrating with our older scales. The technical support in regards to the partner side needs some improvement."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
"Integrating the solution with existing systems can be complicated and it needs careful planning and execution."
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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, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and AWS Step Functions. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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