We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Rational System Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Software AG and others in Business Process Design."ARIS BPA provides very good visibility and control of processes because we have a concurrent license system. As a result, every person in our company and group is able to look at the published processes."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"Process Modeling or Process Mapping/Documentation. This is the most comprehensive tool for capturing the process details. Any organization who wants to embark on a BPM journey, process mapping/documentation, lays the foundation for the BPM led implementation."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"The user interface is good. It's both clear and comprehensible. It's easy to work with."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"There are a lot of features I find valuable, but I think that the metamodel customization is one of the best features that the solution offers."
"We have seen ROI with this solution over the years that we have used it."
"The solution is difficult and not very exciting to learn."
"Create simple data uploader."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
"There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."
"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."
"If you want to create new reports then you have to use JavaScript, or ARIS script as they call it, which is beyond the competencies of most people."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"There needs to be more information at the outset about how to use the solution and how to deploy it. The deployment process needs improvement."
"The reverse engineering of the database is already there, but in the next release I would like to see some pilot supplied with the solution in order to address any database."
"This solution can be more user-friendly and easier to use, with better dashboards."
"The solution needs to better integrate with other products, like Microsoft."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while IBM Rational System Architect is ranked 21st in Enterprise Architecture Management. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Rational System Architect is rated 7.4. 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 IBM Rational System Architect writes "Modeling is useful, but many features need improvement and technical support is lacking". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas IBM Rational System Architect is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and erwin Data Modeler by Quest.
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