We performed a comparison between Appian and GitHub CoPilot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"The application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"SAIL (Self-Assembling Interface Layer), a scripting language provided by Appian. It is the equivalent of JS and CSS. It allows creation of complex UIs which are also responsive. With SAIL, we have a single language for both the UI logic and its appearance. UI components can be built as reusable components and used in multiple UI interfaces."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward because it's pushed through the updates."
"GitHub CoPilot accelerates productivity. It is an easy-to-use solution that is also helpful in saving the team's time."
"GitHub CoPilot has good stability and performance."
"When I write code, I feel like I have someone sitting with me to help me. Wherever I'm stuck, I just ask a question, and it provides guidance that I can use."
"Initially, OpenAI is free, but you'll need to pay for it later."
"The initial setup of the product is easy."
"The product is easy to integrate."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management features."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"We have clients that want to use Office 365, Microsoft Analytics, and Power Apps. Appian just isn't the same as using something specifically designed to cater to the Microsoft Suite."
"Appian has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"GitHub CoPilot’s integration with other solutions could be improved."
"The solution is expensive. It should also support other programming languages."
"GitHub CoPilot's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The suggestions provided by the product must be improved."
"The tool needs to focus on integration, as it is the most important aspect. I would like to see some pre-designed modules included in my projects."
"Some of the suggestions provided by GitHub CoPilot are not accurate, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There's room for improvement to ensure that suggestions align more precisely with the context of what I'm seeking, minimizing instances of unrelated or inaccurate code suggestions."
"In certain instances, OpenAI didn't respond in the expected way. The responses were more general and didn't address the specific point."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews while GitHub CoPilot is ranked 15th in Rapid Application Development Software with 11 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while GitHub CoPilot is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitHub CoPilot writes "Though it offers good integration features, the price needs to be lowered". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas GitHub CoPilot is most compared with GitLab, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Pega BPM, ServiceNow and ServiceNow Now Platform. See our Appian vs. GitHub CoPilot report.
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