We performed a comparison between Appian and CA Process Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."SAIL (Self-Assembling Interface Layer), a scripting language provided by Appian. It is the equivalent of JS and CSS. It allows creation of complex UIs which are also responsive. With SAIL, we have a single language for both the UI logic and its appearance. UI components can be built as reusable components and used in multiple UI interfaces."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"The tech support is quite good."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"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."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Occasionally, certain pre-made modules may not be necessary and customers may desire greater customization options. Instead of being limited to pre-designed features, they may prefer a more flexible version that allows for greater customization."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"It would be nice if you could create your own customized apps when the business needed them."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"Somehow the product group within CA left the product dry from some regular expression functionality."
"Make some of the features more open source that way developers can have more flexibility."
"It needs auto-triggering of workflows based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)."
"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
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Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 57 reviews while CA Process Automation is ranked 29th in Process Automation. Appian is rated 8.4, while CA Process Automation is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CA Process Automation writes "Provides the ability to import objects as new versions of existing objects and to make the prior version the current version". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas CA Process Automation is most compared with BMC TrueSight Orchestration.
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