We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Appian 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."We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Airflow is creating and scheduling jobs. Additionally, the reattempt at failed jobs is useful."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"There is no need to worry about vulnerabilities in the system, because Appian built a secure system."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"Since implementing we have had a faster time to solution, with fewer resources needed."
"Appian has many valuable features, the first being the ease of development—rapid development. Second, the process of learning the product and tool is faster when compared to its peers in the market. It's closer to low-code, and while it's still not very easy, it's more low-code than other products in the industry. Appian has a good user interface, a seamless model user interface, which comes without additional coding. It can also integrate with multiple systems."
"Good workflow engines that bridge the gaps of processes."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"The automation capabilities could be improved; a visual workflow designer and a graphical tool to reduce coding would be very helpful. But for now, it's sufficient for our simple workflows."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"We cannot run real-time jobs in the solution."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"Appian has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
"There are some restrictions with respect to using external components within Appian. So, for example, if we do not have a particular feature available, there's a long cycle of getting approvals and all of that. That does not offer flexibility, which definitely can be improved on."
"Appian could include other applications that we could reuse for other customers, CRM for example."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Appian is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow and OpenText 360 for SharePoint, whereas Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM. See our Apache Airflow vs. Appian report.
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