We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and ARIS BPA 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."The best feature is the customization."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"I like the UI rework, it's much easier."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"We're running it on a virtual server, which we can easily upgrade if needed."
"The initial setup was straightforward and it does not take long to complete."
"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 solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"One of the many advantages of ARIS is that it is supported by a very strong BPM community, which is critical for us. Although it has been in business for many years, it is still at an early stage of evolution. There are so many instances where your specific use case or requirement for using ARIS hasn't necessarily been matured across the sector. So, you need access to a very active community to help you explore possible solutions and ways in which ARIS can be used to achieve those use cases."
"It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture."
"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"I am impressed with the tool's integration. It also facilitates collaboration in the organization."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"UI can be improved with additional user-friendly features for non-programmers and for fewer coding practitioner requirements."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"We have faced scenarios where Apache Airflow becomes non-responsive, leading to job failures. To resolve such situations, we had to manually reboot Apache Airflow since it doesn't provide an option to restart within the application. This necessitated modifying some configurations to initiate a restart of all Apache Airflow components. Although Apache Airflow is generally dependable, it may occasionally encounter glitches that can disrupt production flows and batches."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"The user experience's usability (in general) should be improved as the tool is updated."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"The product is difficult to use for someone without prior knowledge of working with it. It requires a certain level of administration training."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"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."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while ARIS BPA 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 ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. Apache Airflow report.
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