We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Appian based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"The product integrates well with other pipelines and solutions."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"Since it's widely adopted by the community, Apache Airflow is a user-friendly solution."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"The solution could be improved by simplifying the integration process."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"The automation capabilities could be improved; a visual workflow designer and a graphical tool to reduce coding would be very helpful. But for now, it's sufficient for our simple workflows."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"There are four areas I believe Appian could improve in. The first is a seamless contact center integration. Appian does not have a contact center feature. The second is advanced features in RPA. The third would be chatbot and email bot integration—while Appian comes with chatbot and email bot, it's not as mature as it should be, compared to the competition. The fourth area would be next best action, since there is not much of this sort of feature in Appian. These are all features which competitors' products have, and in a mature manner, whereas Appian lacks on these four areas. I see customers who are moving from Appian to Pega because these features are not in Appian."
"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."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"Even though the company has made great improvements in online documentation, featuring rich material which includes case studies of real-life use cases, the material could definitely be better in quality and coverage of use cases."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
"Lacks integration with other products."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Appian is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AutomateNOW, whereas Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM. See our Apache Airflow vs. Appian report.
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