We performed a comparison between Appian and SAP Signavio Process Manager 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."Process Modeling enables creation of business process workflows. You can create complex business workflows in a visual manner, and it is also easy to debug/monitor."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"There is no need to worry about vulnerabilities in the system, because Appian built a secure system."
"Another advantage of this tool is its reports and records. You can maintain dashboards, layouts. If you with a Java solution, it takes six months time. If you use this tool, you can finish in one or one and a half months' time."
"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."
"It's a stable product."
"It is highly user-friendly and easy to use, even for those who are not familiar with product modeling."
"The most valuable feature is that you can customize it completely with all of the attributes that you need."
"One of the most valuable features is ease of use which has really been a good thing to put into the business. People like tools that they can just pick up and use straight-away."
"The Signavio tool is very easy to use and it is one of the reasons why I like it."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The visual representation is extremely powerful and easy to use in process modeling and analysis. I can show it to someone who doesn't know business process mapping, and they still understand because it's visually presented. It becomes easy to explain variants and what needs to change."
"The interface is very intuitive and includes a drag-and-drop function."
"This is one of the best solutions and it is easy to implement."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose."
"There are four areas I believe Appian could improve in. The first is a seamless contact center integration. Appian does not have a contact center feature. The second is advanced features in RPA. The third would be chatbot and email bot integration—while Appian comes with chatbot and email bot, it's not as mature as it should be, compared to the competition. The fourth area would be next best action, since there is not much of this sort of feature in Appian. These are all features which competitors' products have, and in a mature manner, whereas Appian lacks on these four areas. I see customers who are moving from Appian to Pega because these features are not in Appian."
"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 performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"There should be more flexibility for the developers to choose the look and feel of the UI. They should have a better ability to design their widgets and customize them with different colors, shapes, and sizes. That is a limitation that could be improved upon."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"We sometimes experience downtime or a dropped connection, so I think that the stability can be improved for the SaaS solution."
"I would like to be able to include images in the documentation."
"The collaboration and commenting are great. However, I think it would be more useful for people to get notifications of comments straight-away so we can react even quicker to them than we already can."
"We would like a better way to give users the correct permissions for processes, whether to view or design."
"Part of the product that I think can improve is document control. That's currently not even possible. To work with documents we have something of a workaround using SharePoint."
"For us, it would help a lot if this solution had floating licenses."
"SAP Signavio Process Manager's UI is not user-friendly. Its pricing is also high."
"Moreover, the functionality to show different process variations with "views" could be improved to allow more customization of these views. I believe this would increase the user experience and administrative efforts maintaining these process variations."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 8th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Microsoft Azure App Service, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, ARIS BPA, Camunda, Visio and ADONIS. See our Appian vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
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