We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Software AG and others in Business Process Design."It brings transparency and 360-degree views of end-to-end processes."
"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"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."
"In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"Has a specific template that's very helpful for importing metadata."
"In PowerDesigner, I primarily use BPM and modeling standards. I find it beneficial for process analysis, although I use data modeling to a lesser extent."
"SAP PowerDesigner is fairly stable."
"In terms of operational efficiency and cause savings or return on investment, I can say that with SAP PowerDesigner, our company saves a lot of time."
"Very good repository features."
"I do a data-centric design, so for me, the data analysis and design tools are the most valuable features."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"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."
"Simulation is one area that is a bit complex."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"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."
"Making it more customizable and easy to learn would be a benefit."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"There are some minor things that could be easier. We're writing up procedures to bring all the modeling back into one group as this reduces delays in production."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"Technical support could be better and more human."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. 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 PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Collibra Catalog.
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