We performed a comparison between Appian and Bonita 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."Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features of Appian are the VPN engine, it is fast, lightweight, and easy to set up business rules. Business teams can do it by themselves. That is a very good feature."
"Good workflow engines that bridge the gaps of processes."
"The setup is easy."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features."
"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."
"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."
"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."
"This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it."
"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"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."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"It is missing some important features that other products have."
"There is a considerable learning curve."
"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."
"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."
"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"Installation could be made easier."
"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 27 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Bonita is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, Apache Airflow, IBM BPM and ProcessMaker. See our Appian vs. Bonita report.
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