We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Appian 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 like the UI rework, it's much easier."
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"The reason we went with Airflow is its DAG presentation, that shows the relationships among everything. It's more of a configuration-driven workflow."
"One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"Since Apache works very well on Python, we can manage everything and create pipelines there."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"Technical support has been amazing overall."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Process Modeling enables creation of business process workflows. You can create complex business workflows in a visual manner, and it is also easy to debug/monitor."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"The documentation must be improved."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"There are some restrictions with respect to using external components within Appian. So, for example, if we do not have a particular feature available, there's a long cycle of getting approvals and all of that. That does not offer flexibility, which definitely can be improved on."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"Lacks business rules management as part of the solution."
"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."
"Occasionally, certain pre-made modules may not be necessary and customers may desire greater customization options. Instead of being limited to pre-designed features, they may prefer a more flexible version that allows for greater customization."
"The solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Appian 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 Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow and OpenText 360 for SharePoint, whereas Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM. See our Apache Airflow vs. Appian report.
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