We performed a comparison between Appian 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."Since implementing we have had a faster time to solution, with fewer resources needed."
"The solution's most valuable features are the regular periodic and quarterly updates, they are very useful updates. They keep improving the solution more often, and that helps the platform or code always be up to date with the latest features."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"Form building capabilities and well thought out process modelling are key points to this product."
"The tech support is quite good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"The whole ARIS BPM solution is a bit special, because from the very beginning it was targeted more to Business users and the Management."
"I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting."
"I am impressed with the tool's integration. It also facilitates collaboration in the organization."
"Even though the company has made great improvements in online documentation, featuring rich material which includes case studies of real-life use cases, the material could definitely be better in quality and coverage of use cases."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"I wouldn't say their response time is long, but it could be quicker."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."
"The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the cross and upselling of modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement."
"Simulation is one area that is a bit complex."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"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."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while ARIS BPA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Unqork, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and iServer. See our ARIS BPA vs. Appian report.
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