We performed a comparison between Appian and F5 BIG-IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"Appian is easy to install and set up, and it does not come out with your audit. It has accessible process orchestration and process management. With Appian, the time to market is much faster."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"It's a stable product."
"The reporting feature is quite good."
"We use this solution on a daily basis, and it is very stable."
"The backup, monitoring and logging are the best features."
"The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules."
"F5 BIG-IQ has always provided us with great support."
"Scalability: To move from larger boxes to smaller boxes, along with virtualization. So, we are not locked into a particular size."
"Features like AFM, the gateway, and Global DNS are the coolest features that save work for us."
"The GUI is fine, at least from an engineer's perspective."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"The solution could improve by being more responsive when dealing with large quantities of data. Additionally, they can make the decision or rules engine better. It cannot handle too many rules or too many decisions at once."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"I wouldn't say their response time is long, but it could be quicker."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"The biggest areas of improvement would be in facilitating team development, DevOps, and integration with typical tools used in enterprise development (Jenkins, Subversion, etc.)"
"Sometimes the solution does not work."
"The solution should improve pricing. It's expensive in comparison to other American solutions."
"There are a lot of scripts available on the internet for people who know how to use them, but with a graphical interface, it would be easier for new users."
"The shell, kernel, or Linux has something like a delay, especially with the Virtual Edition, when you are trying to implement it in the cloud and you want to access it remotely with web management. It would be great if they could improve their kernel. It was difficult for me, especially when I got started with BIG-IP. I was struggling to find which commands work with it. If you want to work with it, you have to be a Linux guy."
"The solution's rSeries has been made free, and iSeries should be made free as well."
"I had trouble with high availability deployment in my environment."
"F5 BIG-IQ should improve by being a complete certificate management solution because currently, it is only for Venafi. Other automation platforms, should be added."
"They could use YAML or JSON if they wanted to make it a little bit easier for us."
Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 56 reviews while F5 BIG-IQ is ranked 24th in Process Automation with 12 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while F5 BIG-IQ is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IQ writes "A central management system to manage and monitor a bunch of different BIG-IP devices". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas F5 BIG-IQ is most compared with ServiceNow Orchestration. See our Appian vs. F5 BIG-IQ report.
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