ARIS BPA vs IBM Case Foundation comparison

Software AG and IBM are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. Software AG is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.9, while IBM is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.0. Software AG holds a 3.8% mindshare in BPM, compared to IBM’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of IBM users who would recommend it.

ARIS BPA

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89% willing to recommend

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

ARIS BPA and IBM Case Foundation are prominent players in the business process management and content management sectors. ARIS BPA seems to have the upper hand with its comprehensive process modeling and enterprise analysis capabilities.

Features: ARIS BPA offers extensive process modeling and enterprise analysis with object-oriented flexibility, supporting notations like BPMN and EPC. It features robust integration across IT and business processes, making it highly adaptable for visual management and process governance. IBM Case Foundation excels in content management, providing document templates and facilitating decision-making with robust integration capabilities, particularly within IBM's enterprise solutions suite.

Room for Improvement: ARIS BPA lacks a workflow engine, restricting business process execution and automation. Users cite integration challenges and high costs, along with a complex interface and steep learning curve. IBM Case Foundation needs better support for updated development platforms and languages, with users desiring a more intuitive interface and improved integration with emerging technologies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ARIS BPA offers versatile deployment options including Hybrid, Public, Private Cloud, and On-premises, providing flexibility within IT infrastructures, though support response times can improve. IBM Case Foundation is mainly On-premises, noted for traditional deployment and improved technical support, although further enhancement in response and adaptation is wished for.

Pricing and ROI: ARIS BPA is considered expensive but offers various license models appropriate for enterprises valuing modeling capabilities. Users find robust ROI through process transparency and efficiency. IBM Case Foundation's pricing is perceived mid-range, often viewed as high given functionality, with ROI heavily dependent on implementation and usage scales.

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Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (6th)

IBM Case Foundation

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

31st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 3.8%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Case Foundation is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ARIS BPA	3.8%
IBM Case Foundation	0.5%
Other	95.7%

Business Process Management (BPM)

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Tamer Eldamanhouri

Software Engineering & Manager at Arab Infromation Management Services

Empowers teams with robust business process modeling capabilities

They should examine competitor solutions to identify differentiators. One issue related to ARIS BPA is its integration with AI; it has AI features for cloud solutions, yet many in the government sector in Kuwait do not view the cloud as viable. Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance. This aspect is crucial for adapting to the market's needs and streamlining custom solutions. While they have been helpful regarding pricing, I cannot compare ARIS BPA to other business process modeling tools because I understand some competitors have significantly lower costs than ARIS BPA. To maintain market share, good discounts should be provided to customers.

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Nouman Nawaz

Deputy Director - IT(Plans) at DHA Lahore

Mature product in terms of security and stable product

The architecture is a bit difficult, but in BAW, they introduced the Business Automation Workflow. It's a bit easier compared to Case Manager. Currently, we use Case Manager, so it's a bit difficult to upgrade and handle, but BAW is comparatively much better and easier to handle. The limitation is only for customization because IBM doesn't support it. In some scenarios, if you want some business processes to be customized, we have already spoken two or three times with IBM representatives that we have to customize some of the features in this business process. They would say that if you want to do this automation at your own end, then okay, fine, go ahead, but we are not supporting all this customization. The only thing is the customization because it's a complete standard application.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."

"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."

"The ability to sort via multiple criteria to identify the relationships you need for a specific object."

"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."

"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."

"The technical support is good."

"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the solution to fully customize the methodology according to the company's needs, and to enforce that methodology with features like filters, semantic checks, and reports."

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"The content management is great."

"It provides us the capability of producing business processes for documents that are launched immediately when a document comes into the repository."

"Flexible and the ability to divide search screens, and to search for documents. The ECM feature inside the system is great."

"It is easy to set up workflows that notify the user depending on certain events."

"It's very easy."

"The most valuable feature is the content manager part of the file as it is very stable, robust, and reliable."

"The client and the IBM content navigation are the solution's most valuable features."

"The solution is scalable."

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Cons

"The solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."

"I find it difficult to access the database as I want with direct querying."

"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."

"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."

"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."

"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."

"Create simple data uploader."

"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."

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"The solution can be quite expensive."

"We are now using microservices but there are some areas where the coordination with FileNet is problematic."

"The place of improvement is merging or combining all of the workflow functionality into one seamless tool. Now, there are multiple installations that are different. Case Foundation, before you can put Case Manager and you've got IBM BPM, and the roadmap is there to merge them altogether. But that's the struggle at the moment, it's having multiple installations and disparate workflow applications."

"The limitation is only for customization because IBM doesn't support it."

"Once a workflow is launched then it stays static forever, which is a problem because if there is a change in the business then you cannot change the workflow."

"IBM needs to update the user interfaces of all its products to make them more intuitive and accessible to beginners. Compared to Microsoft products, IBM solutions are less user-friendly. IBM programs are hard to master. It's a problem in my region because it's hard to find IT staff who can work with IBM."

"There is a need for more open and flexible integration capabilities, allowing seamless collaboration with a broader spectrum of business process management solutions, beyond the confines of IBM's document management offerings."

"There are some features that could be enhanced like the document viewer"

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is a bit pricey."

"We have a concurrent license system."

"The setup cost and pricing depend on the license (Modeler, Viewer, Administrator)."

"From my point of view, no, it is not cheap, but it is not too expensive because you get this big organization behind it, technical support, and all those things. It's not so expensive to use. It's a Rolls Royce in this field, I know that. Even for small organizations, they can get so much effect from using this tool, in a very fast way, so the money will be back in the customer's pocket very fast."

"ARIS enables you to start small and grow the use of the solution over time, although it's quite expensive. So if you want to start small, it's quite an investment for a small company."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"This is absolutely not the cheapest solution in the market, but for large companies, the price is fine."

"It is an expensive solution."

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"The price falls in the middle range—not overly expensive but not extremely affordable either."

"Pricing is in the mid-range, it is not cheap, but it's not expensive."

"This is not an expensive solution and we are using the standard license."

"IBM Case Foundation is a little expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	47

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

Pricing for ARIS BPA is average, not cheap or expensive. It's cost-effective and worth the money we pay.

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

ARIS BPA needs to be more accurate when generating documents. While it covers many blueprints and functions that I need, the document generation feature could be enhanced for better accuracy.

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What do you like most about IBM Case Foundation?

A valuable feature includes seamless integration with the document management system, along with robust capabilities in analytics and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Case Foundation?

The tool is expensive for my customers; it is very expensive, more than other solutions. Some customers say it is more expensive. The license cost for Cloud Pak is per user and increases with the n...

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What needs improvement with IBM Case Foundation?

We face some challenges with IBM Case Foundation from our customers, particularly with administration and configuration. We face many issues and open tickets with IBM regarding that, especially som...

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Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM

Case Foundation, FileNet Business Process Manager

Overview

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

Software AG

IBM Case Foundation is for organizations that need to harness unstructured information and integrate it with business processes to drive critical business decisions. It enables organizations to create, manage and optimize case-based processes and is designed to decrease development costs while significantly improving process performance. Case Foundation links specific pieces of content with a structured workflow. It's an on ramp for organizations that choose to move from document-centric workflow solutions to the advanced capabilities of IBM Case Manager.

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Sample Customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.

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