We performed a comparison between Appian and Knack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"Appian's most valuable features are the quick time it takes to develop for the market. It's easy and faster than other BPM solutions."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"The product has a very good mobile app."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"I would like to see more features for enterprises. They would also benefit from adding documentation and training on their site."
"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."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
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Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 57 reviews while Knack is ranked 30th in Rapid Application Development Software. Appian is rated 8.4, while Knack is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Knack writes "Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas Knack is most compared with Caspio, Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, AppSheet and Amazon AWS.
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