ARIS BPA Reviews

Name: ARIS BPA
Brand: Software AG
Rating: 4 (64 reviews)

Vendor: Software AG

4.2 out of 5

64 reviews
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What is ARIS BPA?

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

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ARIS BPA is the #3 ranked solution in Business Process Design tools and #4 ranked solution in BPM Software. PeerSpot users give ARIS BPA an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. ARIS BPA is most commonly compared to Camunda: ARIS BPA vs Camunda. ARIS BPA is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Libor Černý

Process manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

From the start, there were some difficulties on how to create outputs since there wasn't a repository tool in version 6. However, in version 7, there has been a tool for creating standards for a company, and that tool has been very intuitive. While I have been using this tool for several years, other people just starting to use it find the learning curve steep. This tool is very robust and accommodates many roles, where people can participate from compliance, IT designers, etc. This can create problems for users who have no experience with similar tools. It took me a year before I felt comfortable with this tool, because when I came from university it was the first or second tool that I worked on. It took me a year to run every feature or use it for every possibility since this tool is very robust. We sometimes have to create the link to the server and the repository twice because it is deleted once for some unknown reason. Though, this is not a big problem. There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports.

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Laurent Salembier

DSI Functions Support at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

In my previous company, we used ARIS to document local processes in different countries. It helped us to identify what were the main differences in terms of processes, identify best practices, and give visibility to everyone in the company into what those best practices are. ARIS gives us a place where we can have a single source of truth. Instead of having business processes documented in different software, in Word or in PowerPoint, and described in different ways, ARIS provides a framework and a central repository where we can find that single source of truth. It gives us a consistent content structure for all processes. This is something that is very valuable. In that way, indirectly, it saves us time when looking for that single source of truth. It's an enterprise application that is used by many people across our organization: the business process owners, the data owners, and the IT owners. And they are enriching the content. It is also used by anyone in the company who wants to look at our standards. The solution has also provided us with capabilities we didn't know we needed until we had them. One of the functionalities that I really like is the ability to use ARIS for application portfolio management. In addition to our applications, we have also stored, in ARIS, the footprint of where those applications have been implemented. That means we know in which country a given application has been implemented. With embedded geolocation, we have a very visual world map, where we can see the footprint of each application.

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Keith Bohanna

Head of Group BPM Standards at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the information available on modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement. Traditionally, enterprise software is sold by sales people pitching to customers individually. Once you move into the SAAS environment, everything becomes more digital, and they haven't yet fully moved into that space.

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ARIS BPA mindshare

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As of July 2024, the mindshare of ARIS BPA in the Business Process Design category stands at 7.0%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"ARIS has a good collaboration function. You create a portal where any authorized users can work on the models. There are simple flows for making and approving changes."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
"They should make improvements as per customer requirements."

Pricing

"ARIS has different licensing mechanisms for different modules, but they are perpetual licenses. So you pay once."
"The product is inexpensive."
"The product is a bit pricey."

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Top industries

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Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Retailer

Insurance Company

Construction Company

University

Transportation Company

Educational Organization

Hospitality Company

Healthcare Company

Media Company

Comms Service Provider

Pharma/Biotech Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Logistics Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Wholesaler/Distributor

Legal Firm

Non Profit

Outsourcing Company

Consumer Goods Company

Performing Arts

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What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

ARIS BPA was previously known as ARIS, ARIS BPM.

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ARIS BPA customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.