Appian pros and cons

Vendor: Appian

4.1 out of 5

55 reviews

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Robotic Process Automation Engineer at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 27, 2022

It has good integrations. We were looking for out-of-the-box integration with both on-prem and publicly accessible data sources. We needed integration with the cloud, OData, our REST API feed, and then on-prem passthrough to go to a SQL database or on-prem APIs through Azure local deployment, etc.

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Data SME at Sparta Global

Dec 27, 2021

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.

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CTO Digital Division at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 25, 2022

The technical support is excellent.

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Senior Account Executive/Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 4, 2022

It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well.

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CIO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Feb 22, 2023

Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up.

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Project Manager at Telus Digital

May 16, 2022

The initial setup is easy.

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Export Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Nov 15, 2022

The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable.

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DD

Application Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 12, 2023

Technical support is quite responsive.

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Devashish Mishra

Client Partner at Peristent Systems

Apr 21, 2023

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.

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IA&RPA Engineer at Admiral

Mar 23, 2023

The setup is easy.

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Robotic Process Automation Engineer at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 27, 2022

The tool itself is pretty good, but the main area that we struggled with was the backend. The frontend development is really good, but the backend modeling can be streamlined a little bit. There are good integrations, but tying them through the data layer and then up into the frontend could be improved a little bit. It does read/write on the data source, and you can configure it to just write or just read, but there is a little bit of work involved.

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Data SME at Sparta Global

Dec 27, 2021

Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection.

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CTO Digital Division at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 25, 2022

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.

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Senior Account Executive/Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 4, 2022

What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect.

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CIO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Feb 22, 2023

Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that.

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Project Manager at Telus Digital

May 16, 2022

There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases.

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Export Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Nov 15, 2022

There should be more flexibility for the developers to choose the look and feel of the UI. They should have a better ability to design their widgets and customize them with different colors, shapes, and sizes. That is a limitation that could be improved upon.

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DD

Application Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 12, 2023

If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product.

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Devashish Mishra

Client Partner at Peristent Systems

Apr 21, 2023

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.

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IA&RPA Engineer at Admiral

Mar 23, 2023

It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution.

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