We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Blueworks Live based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."From an architectural point of view, when you're looking at the business area, you can find all the information you have to use as an architect."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"In addition to our applications, we have also stored, in ARIS, the footprint of where those applications have been implemented. That means we know in which country a given application has been implemented. With embedded geolocation, we have a very visual world map, where we can see the footprint of each application."
"The simulation engine and SAP integration are technically very robust."
"The EPC modeling is very detailed, the semantic check is helpful, and auto-layout simplifies the formatting."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"Process Modeling or Process Mapping/Documentation. This is the most comprehensive tool for capturing the process details. Any organization who wants to embark on a BPM journey, process mapping/documentation, lays the foundation for the BPM led implementation."
"It helps the business make an informed decision."
"It's very easy, very quick to create a process map. It has templates. The look and feel is very nice. What we want to achieve out of the process map, we can achieve it using Blueworks."
"Valuable features include real-time modeling and design work, the ability to perform workshops with clients in real-time with the tool, and getting instant output."
"The ease of documenting and digitizing the processes was valuable to us."
"The solution is easy to operate. Also, there is an automatic mode to make the business flow. You don't have to put any lines or arrows in a decision point in IBM Blueworks Live; it's very automatic."
"The reporting that we can generate from IBM Blueworks Live has been interesting. We found the KPIs, risks, process modeling, format, and colors, to be very good. We use the EY template and it is interesting to generate reporting in this format."
"IBM Blueworks Live is cloud-based and provides easy access to all your processes in one place."
"Collaboration is most valuable. You can collaborate online with many people. People can comment, and you can comment back. It is just like a social network, and that, for me, is very good."
"In terms of the collaboration features, from the point of discovery, it was useful to go to load up the policies and the rule sets that the client had. And in terms of exploring options and being able to model a variety of different processes, that was incredibly useful as well."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"They should make improvements as per customer requirements."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
"The user experience's usability (in general) should be improved as the tool is updated."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"In the Blue Works Live software boxes and lines are automatically placed by the programme and can't be easily manipulated."
"I would like to see integration with ERP systems. This would help us to simulate the process and see where the problems are. Though IBM Blueworks Live is a good tool for documenting, it is not good for simulating."
"Some of the import functionality was a bit restrictive, in terms of loading data in from other data sources. Something as simple as Excel, loading data tables from Excel, wasn't great. And vice-versa. Some of the export and import functionality with something like Visio - which, I know it's a slightly different tool - but being able to work seamlessly with those other tool sets would've been quite useful. I know it was something that was in the pipeline to be looked at. So that would be useful."
"In the solution Signavio, they have a customer journey mapping feature that should be added to IBM Blueworks Live. It's valuable to map or document the customer journey to identify the pains and opportunities in this process."
"The ability to create a very structured rule. With the capability that we have right now, Blueworks Live is more process focused. We should be able to enhance it to include a lot more of decisions as well."
"It is BPMN-compliant but the tool needs to be more involved to get into a completely 2.0 oriented tool. It has a few things but it's not the complete BPMN model."
"We haven't yet been able to dabble in case management with Blueworks Live, as it is not yet offered with the product."
"Sometimes, the tool is automatic, which can complicate it, but once you're accustomed to manipulating it, you can use it very effectively."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Blueworks Live is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with Visio, SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Blueworks Live report.
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