We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and webMethods Integration Server 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."Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"ARIS BPA has a good directory option, which helps to keep track of all of your metadata, and that's very useful."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"Also, the UML parts have been improved very much in the last two years. And it's very powerful now to combine the BPMN and UML parts in the product, because you can make a connection between them, so that you have the right interoperability between them. So if you're doing data modeling, you can use your class diagram and bind that to the BPMN part."
"The messaging part is the most valuable feature."
"Some of the key features are the integration platform, query mechanism, message handling within the bus, and the rules engine. We've had a really good experience with webMethods Integration Server."
"I would say the core Web-based integrations work the best. They are the most efficient and robust implementations one can do with webMethods."
"The tool supports gRPC."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"High throughput and excellent scalability."
"It is a very stable product."
"Currently, we're using this solution for the integration server which helps us to integrate with the mainframe."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"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."
"Migration to the next release is very tricky. You can't do it without support from ARIS or from a software kit. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to migrate. My impression is that a lot of companies do not migrate regularly because of that issue."
"The model graphics can be exported in PDF, but the model is too small to read."
"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 solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."
"On the monitoring side of things, the UI for monitoring could be improved. It's a bit cumbersome to work with."
"t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData."
"Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."
"Technical support is an area where they can improve."
"I'd like to see the admin portal for managing the integration server go up a level, to have more capabilities and to be given a more modern web interface."
"We'd like for them to open up to a more cloud-based solution that could offer more flexibility and maybe a better rules engine or more integration with rules engines."
"The orchestration is not as good as it should be."
"I would like to see the price improve."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi iPaaS. See our ARIS BPA vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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