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Appian vs Bizagi vs Salesforce Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
Appian enhances ROI for companies by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and achieving break-even within the first year.
Sentiment score
7.5
Bizagi offers substantial ROI with significant returns, cost-effectiveness, and competitive advantages, enhancing satisfaction among users.
Sentiment score
7.5
Salesforce Platform enhances efficiency, reduces information silos, boosts revenue growth, and cuts client data management time by up to 50%.
They see return on investment in terms of cost savings, time savings, more efficient processes, and more efficient employees.
Appian is very efficient, allowing us to build a lot of applications within a financial year, making it cost-effective.
Salesforce saved about 40% to 50% of my time by allowing me to manage and maintain client data and account progress.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Appian's customer service is excellent but faces capacity challenges; proactive support is valuable despite complex issue delays and high costs.
Sentiment score
7.0
Bizagi offers efficient customer service with occasional delays; premium plans improve responsiveness, though inconsistencies exist for others.
Sentiment score
6.7
Salesforce Platform generally provides solid support, but response times vary, with users appreciating community resources and premium service benefits.
Their customer service is responsive, and the team is very prompt for support.
The technical support for Appian rates as 10 out of 10 because they have a great support team.
The technical support is generally good.
It is a community product, there is not much support we can expect.
The toolset is very intuitive, so we didn’t need to contact their support much.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Appian is scalable and flexible, but may encounter performance issues with complex processes and large data volumes.
Sentiment score
6.6
Bizagi is scalable and suitable for medium-sized businesses, with growth potential and performance reliant on infrastructure quality.
Sentiment score
7.8
Salesforce Platform's scalability is highly rated for handling large user bases and offers flexibility in expansion and customization.
On a scale of one to 10, Appian rates as a nine for scalability.
Initially, without much coding, I can easily handle five thousand records.
Appian is scalable, but it depends on how you build your applications.
There is no direct scalability option.
If I rate scalability from one to ten, I would probably give it a six.
Salesforce's scalability was not a problem.
Salesforce Platform is absolutely scalable for us.
We are using it globally in thirty countries.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Appian is praised for stability and reliability, with high uptime, seamless updates, and occasional minor database issues.
Sentiment score
7.0
Bizagi is reliable with minor update issues, appreciated for performance and stability, but occasional bugs accompany new features.
Sentiment score
8.1
Salesforce Platform is stable and reliable, with minor issues and performance hitches being exceptions, ensuring high user satisfaction.
It depends on how it has been designed and how it has been configured.
The stability of Appian would rate as nine, as it's a stable environment.
On occasion, we had to log in and out frequently, open tickets with our IT team for account reconfiguration, or request permissions to access the system.
We have never had any problems with it.
Sometimes the system is stuck when many users are using it.
 

Room For Improvement

Appian needs improvements in flexibility, integration, scalability, team collaboration, mobile features, documentation, licensing, and handling complex processes.
Bizagi requires enhancements in performance, integration, user interface, pricing, documentation, automation, reporting, marketing, and support.
Salesforce Platform needs improvements in pricing, reporting, integration, UI, automation, scalability, and support for better user experience.
It has room to improve for use cases where the users are public facing, where anonymous users could come to a site and run a business workflow or interact with some data.
If there is a very complex process that includes a lot of data transitioning and memory-centric processes, it consumes a lot of memory.
I would like to see more enhancement in the user interface to allow more freedom in designing the sites and pages.
Reporting capabilities can be improved more, and community support should be increased.
For more mature environments, the integration to live systems is lacking, which affects its applicability.
Salesforce could improve by adding more capabilities to the dashboard, such as additional fields for more filters and more control over what I would like to see.
Salesforce could improve by offering AI features or functionalities to help business decision-makers analyze business history, suggest forward strategies, and participate in events.
Using AI extensively to make the platform easier to use would also be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Appian offers flexible pricing with cloud and on-premise options, but costs can rise with usage and require negotiation.
Bizagi offers a free modeler while the full BPM suite, with revised licensing prices, favors larger enterprises over smaller ones.
Salesforce is costly but offers extensive features, flexibility, and benefits, making it worthwhile for large enterprises despite additional costs.
On the pricier side, both Appian and Pega are enterprise-level solutions, placing them on the slightly higher side.
The pricing of Appian is based on the number of users and generally ranges from 70 to 100 USD per user per month.
The price of Appian, on a competitive landscape, is a little bit on the higher side for companies, rating maybe a 6.5.
Bizagi's pricing is very aggressive, and it was one of the reasons we chose it.
Salesforce Platform may be on the expensive side.
 

Valuable Features

Appian provides low-code development, easy integration, scalability, and strong AI-enhanced features with a user-friendly interface and robust support.
Bizagi offers a user-friendly, BPMN 2.0 compliant platform excelling in process modeling and automation with fast, agile development.
Salesforce Platform offers customizable, scalable features with intuitive UI, aiding agile development and efficient automation for enhanced data management.
The zero-code integration feature is remarkable, allowing for ease of data transfer and workflow enhancement.
Appian is aiding in leveraging AI technologies in multiple ways: one way is for developers, as they make development efficient and quick by enabling developer co-pilots across various phases of the application, which helps design Appian quickly and provides suggestions along the way.
It is easy for me to define the process and create configurable workflows.
It is open source.
The user interface is very good, making it easy for business people to understand.
This integration allows us to manage customers from all aspects in one place, providing a clear view.
Salesforce offers control over the opportunities to see where we are and gives me high-level dashboards on each opportunity stage.
The most valuable features of Salesforce are its level of customization and integration.
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of Appian is 8.5%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bizagi is 2.1%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Platform is 5.9%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Nitin-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Seamless integration enhances workflows while memory optimization can improve complex processes
I am working with all of these products: Pega, Appian, and OutSystems. I use Appian as a process orchestrator for workflow and rule-based routing, and it is preferred when I am developing an enterprise-wide application. The application is mobile-friendly, allowing me to use it across any device…
Paparao Nadipineni - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables budget review efficiency with open source advantages and workflow orchestration
Definitely, right now, it is purely open source, and we don't have much community support. If they add a few more capabilities like AIML and DocGen AI, these features would be good. Reporting capabilities can be improved more, and community support should be increased. Otherwise, people cannot onboard that particular technology easily.
Yasser_Anter - PeerSpot reviewer
Has customization and integration capabilities which increase efficiency
Salesforce could improve by offering AI features or functionalities to help business decision-makers analyze business history, suggest forward strategies, and participate in events. The previous version had a complicated interface where multiple pages and data entries were required, which was not pleasant for sales teams or business users. Also, deploying Salesforce took a long time, about four to five months, which is not ideal for any business.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Educational Organization
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which do you prefer - Appian or Camunda Platform?
Appian is fast when building simple to medium solutions. This solution offers simple drag-and-drop functionality with...
Is Appian a suitable solution for beginners who have no additional preparation?
Appian is actually pretty big on educating its users, including with courses that reward you with certifications. The...
Is it easy to set up Appian or did you have to resort to professional help?
We had some issues when we were setting up Appian. It was quite surprising, since this is a low-code tool which, in i...
How easy is it to migrate process flow charts (modeled using tools like Visio) into Bizagi?
I have been using Bizagi with a major project for a state government agency for about four years now. It is pretty st...
What do you like most about Bizagi?
The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bizagi?
Bizagi's pricing is very aggressive, and it was one of the reasons we chose it. It was less expensive than some of th...
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I think it depends on your use case. If your organization uses Microsoft Enterprise products, PowerApps will work be...
How does Salesforce Platform compare with Azure?
Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform is not easy or intuitive to deploy. The difficulty will be impacted by the type of...
Do you build applications using low-code or pro-code builders on Salesforce Platform?
At my organization, we have only used Salesforce Platform's low-code builder. The reason for this is not because we d...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Appian BPM, Appian AnyWhere, Appian Enterprise BPMS
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Salesforce1, Force.com, Salesforce App Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

Hansard Global plc, Punch Taverns, Pirelli, Crawford & Company, EDP Renewables, Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning (, Bank of Tennessee
adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.
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