We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and iServer 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."you want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"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."
"ARIS BPA has a good directory option, which helps to keep track of all of your metadata, and that's very useful."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."
"The ability to sort via multiple criteria to identify the relationships you need for a specific object."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"The BPMN notation and the share flow through users. It is nice to see all flows in a common, shared space for all the stakeholders to view the same thing and the same language."
"We like the governance."
"There were lots of different requirements, and collaboration and review is one of the biggest things. There is also Office 360 integration, and there's flexibility to use it as a database as well."
"The solution is easily modified to suit your needs."
"Integrating the Microsoft documents to the product and visualization matrix where we can see the end-to-end relationship of the network is of great importance to our company."
"iServer is a solution that helps catalog enterprise architect solutions and catalog information."
"The solution has wide use within Microsoft products. The integration with Microsoft products, and, in particular, Microsoft Office, is great."
"The product has a valuable customized model."
"iServer has valuable features for workflow and document management."
"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."
"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"While the dashboarding solution for integrating all kinds of process-related information from company sources other than ARIS is getting ever better, my personal wish would be to have a module that is more targeted to an Agile implementation of some modeled processes (model–to-execute)."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"User interface (UI)."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."
"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."
"The modelling needs improvement, specifically forecasting capabilities and scenarios."
"Requirements management needs to be improved."
"Enhancing integration options with ERP or ITSM-related solutions for triggering automated requests for process definitions, changes, and tracking them in the iServer."
"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"It runs relatively slowly."
"More visualization techniques and ways to report the data might be helpful."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while iServer is ranked 13th in Business Process Design with 15 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while iServer is rated 7.2. 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 iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management feature ". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon. See our ARIS BPA vs. iServer report.
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