We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and SAP Signavio Process Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because ARIS BPA is more expensive, has a more difficult initial setup, and is less user friendly, SAP Signavio Process Manager ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."
"It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture."
"ARIS has a good collaboration function. You create a portal where any authorized users can work on the models. There are simple flows for making and approving changes."
"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."
"The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting."
"The GUI is very easy to use, where you can sit together with your colleagues, discuss the process, and during these discussions you can build up the model."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is probably the nature of it."
"The product's most valuable feature is the transformation process."
"I like the collaboration and the real-time aspects of it."
"It is a stable solution."
"Process Manager supports end-to-end transformation. Students can better understand end-to-end activity and processes as well as how they are run. For teaching, it's process discovery, then modeling, and finally optimization and simulation, partly. Typically, we showcase some simulation of the processes, and this is where we finish. That is why we validate that it's properly designed, but also what are the outcomes of modeled processes. There are also options for discussion on process optimization."
"The most valuable feature is the glossary. It is really nice because all of the information is centralized, and that is a big help to the company."
"User interface (UI)."
"ARIS BPA’s usability could be improved."
"ARIS needs to make a better user interface. The user interface sucks. The problem with ARIS is that they have two interfaces for the same product."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"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."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"The user experience's usability (in general) should be improved as the tool is updated."
"Moreover, the functionality to show different process variations with "views" could be improved to allow more customization of these views. I believe this would increase the user experience and administrative efforts maintaining these process variations."
"I find it difficult to figure out how I can better align this solution with my KPIs."
"I would like to see more integration with the process manager in terms of the workflow accelerator."
"Signavio already offers a wonderful range of functions. If variant management and customer journeys are optimized, Signavio can definitely bask in the glory of BPM tools. We also see optimization potential in the management of licenses, e.g. no named users but rather floating licenses and integration into the company's active directory."
"There could be something more on the reporting side of it for the processes you have captured or processes that might be work in progress to see where to target your effort because you don't always have lots of resources to spare"
"There is room for improvement in analytics. People don't realize it, but the world has changed in the last six to eight months. Customers want to see AI like ChatGPT and ML capabilities in all aspects of business processes and reporting."
"The user administration, the user-group administration, and the license models need improvement."
"Customized reporting can be improved to make this a more versatile tool."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 58 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. 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 SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". ARIS BPA is most compared with ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi and Visio, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, Camunda, Visio, ADONIS and UiPath Process Mining. See our ARIS BPA vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
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You can export all process model attributes (including custom attributes) to Excel. For example, we set a process maturity attribute against our processes and then extract it against process sponsors and owners.
Selection and filtering are done in Excel, not in the reporting tool. There are quite a few standard reports as well. You can import data to the repository for use in process attributes (standard or custom) - we did this with our process roles. You could do it with any other layer of your business or technical architecture.
You can create process links for both vertical drop-down and lateral links between processes which end users can navigate. Also, you can hide or show attributes and custom attributes for different user groups who browse the published architecture.
I don't understand what is meant by "...create a custom report for push..." Perhaps you mean schedule reports for automatic dissemination? If so, no you can't do that. However, I'm aware that an API can be purchased that will likely allow you to do much more in the way of integration and automation but we don't have that.
I hope this helps.