We performed a comparison between Appian and ProcessMaker 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."Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"What I found most valuable in Appian is that it lets you drill down on multiple things through the structure of the reporting and UI side. It's also low-code, yet it results in quick deliverables."
"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."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"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."
"It has good integrations. We were looking for out-of-the-box integration with both on-prem and publicly accessible data sources. We needed integration with the cloud, OData, our REST API feed, and then on-prem passthrough to go to a SQL database or on-prem APIs through Azure local deployment, etc."
"The technical support is excellent."
"What I like most is the seamlessness of the workflow capabilities."
"Its performance, stability, and security are fine."
"The biggest areas of improvement would be in facilitating team development, DevOps, and integration with typical tools used in enterprise development (Jenkins, Subversion, etc.)"
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"Appian has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"Its interface should be a bit more user-friendly."
"This solution only supports basic text, but we would like to be able to insert components such as rich text, graphs, charts, pictures, and other objects."
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Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while ProcessMaker is ranked 37th in Business Process Management (BPM). Appian is rated 8.4, while ProcessMaker is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ProcessMaker writes "Easy to learn, automates our manual processes to make things easier, and saves us time and money". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas ProcessMaker is most compared with Camunda, Apache Airflow and Bonita. See our Appian vs. ProcessMaker report.
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