ADONIS vs ARIS BPA comparison

BOC Group and Software AG are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. BOC Group is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.5, while Software AG is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2. BOC Group holds a 2.9% mindshare in BPM, compared to Software AG’s 4.7% 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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89% willing to recommend

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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)

21st

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)

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ADONIS is 2.9%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ARIS BPA is 4.7%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM)

Featured Reviews

Teguh Surya

AVP B2B Business Process Excellence at PT. Indosat Tbk

Process capabilities impress while user setup requires streamlining

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 processes. We also plan to integrate with UiPath because currently, we are focusing on task automations, not process orchestrations. In the future, we plan to implement process orchestrations. I see that Camunda can integrate UiPath into the process, process model, and process integrations. 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.

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Tamer Eldamanhouri

Software Engineering & Manager at Arab Infromation Management Services

Empowers teams with robust business process modeling capabilities

They should examine competitor solutions to identify differentiators. One issue related to ARIS BPA is its integration with AI; it has AI features for cloud solutions, yet many in the government sector in Kuwait do not view the cloud as viable. Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance. This aspect is crucial for adapting to the market's needs and streamlining custom solutions. While they have been helpful regarding pricing, I cannot compare ARIS BPA to other business process modeling tools because I understand some competitors have significantly lower costs than ARIS BPA. To maintain market share, good discounts should be provided to customers.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It's a very complete solution."

"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."

"Fully-reportable database over Visio."

"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."

"The most valuable feature in the latest versions is the connect portal, where you can do very simple modeling using the web-based portal."

"The shared repository allows for cross-functional cooperation instead of doing things in a silo. You can operate cross-functionally and really work end-to-end, instead of dividing everything up on a functional basis."

"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."

"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."

"The whole ARIS BPM solution is a bit special, because from the very beginning it was targeted more to Business users and the Management."

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Cons

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

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

"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."

"ADONIS needs improvement in its user interface functionality."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."

"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."

"The model graphics can be exported in PDF, but the model is too small to read."

"The product is difficult to use for someone without prior knowledge of working with it. It requires a certain level of administration training."

"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."

"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."

"The solution is difficult and not very exciting to learn."

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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 enables you to start small and grow the use of the solution over time, although it's quite expensive. So if you want to start small, it's quite an investment for a small company."

"This is absolutely not the cheapest solution in the market, but for large companies, the price is fine."

"Negotiate. Price is high so make sure you’re getting the best deal."

"It is on the higher side."

"I would recommend the product to only enterprise companies because of the pricing."

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

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

University

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ADONIS?

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

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What needs improvement with ADONIS?

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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 do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

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

Pricing for ARIS BPA is average, not cheap or expensive. It's cost-effective and worth the money we pay.

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

ARIS BPA needs to be more accurate when generating documents. While it covers many blueprints and functions that I need, the document generation feature could be enhanced for better accuracy.

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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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