We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"The simulation engine and SAP integration are technically very robust."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."
"It helps the business make an informed decision."
"Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"Also, the UML parts have been improved very much in the last two years. And it's very powerful now to combine the BPMN and UML parts in the product, because you can make a connection between them, so that you have the right interoperability between them. So if you're doing data modeling, you can use your class diagram and bind that to the BPMN part."
"It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"No matter what somebody's technical experience level is, the tool can start adding value immediately. Even if that is just an analyst who doesn't have any technical background, they can use some of these no quote accelerators to get things from ideation to deployment in a matter of minutes."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The business process modeling is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"I had this decentralization mission where I had some friendly fights with the consultants of Software AG. My opinion was the business department should be able to publish their processes and do all their evaluation stuff in ARCM themselves. It has to be a one stop shop. I want a one stop shop to go from ARIS BPM to ARIS ARCM, because having everything go through that would be an improvement due to the inputs that we made with Software AG. They will make it possible that the trigger sent from BPM to ARCM will start their object generation."
"In terms of improvement, the app could use some small details and functionalities."
"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."
"ARIS needs to make a better user interface. The user interface sucks. The problem with ARIS is that they have two interfaces for the same product."
"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
"I would like to see more streamlined install and provisioning; preferably containerized IBM BPM would be helpful."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions and IBM Case Foundation. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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