ADONIS vs ARIS BPA comparison

BOC Group and Software AG are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. BOC Group is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.5, while Software AG is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.7. BOC Group holds a 1.8% mindshare in BPM, compared to Software AG’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of BOC Group users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Software AG users who would recommend it.

ADONIS

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90% willing to recommend

ARIS BPA

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5,701 Views
3,706 Comparison Views

89% willing to recommend

ADONIS

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

ARIS BPA and ADONIS are competing business process analysis tools, focused on enhancing business process management. ARIS BPA has the upper hand due to its superior customization and integration capabilities, suitable for complex enterprise needs.

Features: ARIS BPA excels in integration options, comprehensive modeling capabilities, and robust process analysis tools. ADONIS stands out with simplified modeling, ease of use, and quick deployment features.

Room for Improvement: ARIS BPA could improve its user interface, ease of use for non-technical users, and scalability for small teams. ADONIS might benefit from enhanced customization options, better integration features, and improved reporting capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ARIS BPA’s deployment is complex, requiring extensive support, while ADONIS offers easier deployment with efficient support suitable for faster setups.

Pricing and ROI: ARIS BPA has a higher initial cost but delivers a substantial ROI for complex needs. ADONIS provides a more affordable setup and respectable ROI for less complex processes.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

ADONIS

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ARIS BPA

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ADONIS is 1.8%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ARIS BPA is 2.7%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ARIS BPA	2.7%
ADONIS	1.8%
Other	95.5%

Business Process Management (BPM)

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Ostap Kharysh

Product Manager & Student at University of Vienna

The tool supports university projects with effective modeling and a comprehensive toolset

The pure modeling capabilities with drag-and-drop elements for business process diagrams are excellent. The ability to move smoothly from the process landscape to the business process model diagram is appreciated. The simulation model is user-friendly, and the analysis features offer correct insights quickly. It helps me explore and identify the best candidates for automation. ADONIS supports the project hierarchy and allows collaboration through methodological reviews and comments, enhancing decision-making.

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BeenishMustafa

Consultant at KAFD DMC

Has improved process modeling and analysis while supporting integration with organizational data

The process design in ARIS BPA does help with our operational efficiency. What we are doing is object library management for various kinds of objects that we are using in ARIS BPA during our process modeling. We are using that to do a lot of analysis on how many times a system is being used in how many processes, who are the major stakeholders, and if we enhance one system, how is it going to impact other processes and integrated processes. This is helping us a lot. Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual. We are doing a lot of things with regards to the processes as it is at our heart. Processes are one thing and then we have different kinds of things which are related to it, such as SLAs, guidelines, and policy. We are identifying areas of improvement in other documents as well.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The best features of the system include good analytics for business processes including the calculation of time and cost."

"The product is useful for designing business processes and for repositories."

"It seems that the process mapping and modeling features are well and thoroughly covered."

"It's a very complete solution."

"We haven't ever needed to take service breaks and we can scale it throughout our company without any problem."

"ADONIS supports the project hierarchy and allows collaboration through methodological reviews and comments, enhancing decision-making."

"The process modeling interface of ADONIS is very comprehensive, being more complete than Camunda in terms of process documentation and process components such as risks, KPI, and other process components, making it excellent for process documentation, compliance, and repository."

"It's easy to handle the solution thanks to being drag and drop"

"The maintenance capabilities of ARIS BPM and the strong underlying database are particularly valuable."

"The technical support is good."

"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."

"From an architectural point of view, when you're looking at the business area, you can find all the information you have to use as an architect."

"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."

"Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual."

"It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture."

"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."

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Cons

"If there's no WiFi connection, you can't access ADONIS."

"Rearranging things to get information from the objects and the model together to get a report out of them could be done better."

"The solution is in English and we have added certain parts in Russian as this is easier for our students. It would be useful to have the system in Russian."

"ADONIS needs improvement in its user interface functionality."

"This solution would be improved if 24/7 support were available."

"ADONIS needs improvement mainly in user-friendliness, setup, and installations. As an administrator at that time, I found it quite difficult to manage users because I needed to open specific software, possibly Java-based, which is not web-based and should be installed first to manage the users."

"There is a function to check if the model BPMN is being used correctly, but the report from the check is not always very clear."

"We have to use a different solution to automate our business processes."

"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."

"We do experience a lot of glitches with ARIS BPA."

"The data in the pipeline could be managed better. Sometimes previously-used data would be reflected in present variables."

"The standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."

"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."

"The tool is expensive."

"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."

"While the dashboarding solution for integrating all kinds of process-related information from company sources other than ARIS is getting ever better, my personal wish would be to have a module that is more targeted to an Agile implementation of some modeled processes (model–to-execute)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is medium, so I rate it a five out of ten."

"The product’s price is quite competitive."

"ARIS BPA is too costly from a licensing perspective."

"The pricing and licensing costs are available on their website. They will assign a relationship manager to assist if you show further interest in their products."

"Usually, our company buys technical support from the Software AG site. We bought the technical support for the first year of usage for ARIS version 6 and 7. So, when we migrated to ARIS version 7, we bought support only for the first year. Then, we didn't use it the next year. Our experience was that we use it only one to three times during the first year. Therefore, there wasn't much value for us to buy this service because we have no problem with using ARIS after the first year."

"The setup cost and pricing depend on the license (Modeler, Viewer, Administrator)."

"It is an expensive solution."

"From my point of view, no, it is not cheap, but it is not too expensive because you get this big organization behind it, technical support, and all those things. It's not so expensive to use. It's a Rolls Royce in this field, I know that. Even for small organizations, they can get so much effect from using this tool, in a very fast way, so the money will be back in the customer's pocket very fast."

"ARIS is quite expensive."

"Their license model is really difficult to understand, and licenses are quite expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	47

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with ADONIS?

I stopped using ADONIS because it is not capable of integrating and automating business processes for the POC. I see that Camunda is more capable for our POC project to orchestrate business process...

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What is your primary use case for ADONIS?

We are using Camunda for process modeling, some collaborations for process development, and for the process documentation repository, we use SharePoint. We have used ADONIS process modeler, not jus...

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What advice do you have for others considering ADONIS?

I have not integrated it with other products in my system because we are just using the free version. I am planning to purchase the Team version or Business plan for the initial proof of concept pr...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

It is a bit expensive regarding ARIS BPA. However, ARIS BPA does save a lot of effort because this is one tool which can be used for multiple purposes and the viewers have the capability to perform...

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

We are not using any what-if scenario features in ARIS BPA. Currently, we are not using the performance monitoring and compliance checks features in ARIS BPA. We have plans to use them, but current...

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What is your primary use case for ARIS BPA?

ARIS BPA is being used for process modeling, and we are planning to upgrade and enhance it for process mining and other purposes. We are using it for everything. Currently, we are doing HRMS integr...

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ARIS, ARIS BPM

Overview

ADONIS BPM suite is users' best-rated tool for process management, analysis and optimization, trusted by SMEs and large corporations worldwide. It helps you transform your business and create competitive advantage by streamlining processes, enhancing operational efficiency, boosting transparency and creating a customer-centric organization. You can start creating your digital twin with ADONIS already today, as the cloud-based ADONIS:Community Edition is available for free. For more information please visit www.boc-group.com/en/adonis/.

BOC Group

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.

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.

Software AG

Sample Customers

Trusted by small to large enterprises worldwide: ABB, Allianz, Comcast, ERGO, Emerson, Glencore, Lincoln Financial Group, Marel, Raiffeisen bank, Schroders, Southern Water, Stadt Wien, UNIQA, VAUDE, Voestalpine, Volksbank, Vorwerk

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.

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