We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and ARIS BPA 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."I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"The product integrates well with other pipelines and solutions."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"Since it's widely adopted by the community, Apache Airflow is a user-friendly solution."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"It brings transparency and 360-degree views of end-to-end processes."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"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."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"An area where it lacks and can be considered for improvement in the future is if we can somehow automate or learn how we can automate different processes."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."
"The model graphics can be exported in PDF, but the model is too small to read."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while ARIS BPA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. Apache Airflow report.
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