We performed a comparison between Appian and Bizagi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's most valuable feature is the low code aspect of development. We can develop an end-to-end VPN solution using a single platform."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"Technical support is helpful."
"With low-code, we don't need a lot of coding, and then from the plumbing perspective, there is a complete CI/CD pipeline that exists within Appian that can be leveraged for open deployment."
"The agile manner that we require to create our workflows. This is probably the most critical part of our solution and the time it takes to start processing the solution."
"The solution's most valuable features are the regular periodic and quarterly updates, they are very useful updates. They keep improving the solution more often, and that helps the platform or code always be up to date with the latest features."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files."
"Agility, reverse engineering, customized portal web, help desk and user guides, easy deployment, simple to modify."
"The documentation capabilities are very good. Very structured documents and process versions are valuable features, and being able to communicate that to our customers is also a very good feature. It has a good balance between the effort and the result. So, you don't need to be too detailed. You can document while you are modeling, which is a very good feature."
"The solution offers a free version of their product."
"The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products."
"Very user friendly and a professional solution."
"The free online Help and E-Learning is very strong."
"Agility is most valuable because we can develop so much faster than other tools. We can make requirements, develop, and go out to production much faster. So, agility in the software cycle is most valuable."
"The main feature of Bizagi is the speed to which we can automate processes and how we can modify them without a strong impact on the end users."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"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."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"Bizagi needs a way to define categories such as process groups like the APQC framework, PCF, and handle the processes within it."
"It works slowly on the cloud, sometimes."
"Difficult to export in formats other than PDF."
"Bizagi doesn't have integrations with other solutions, such as ERP systems. In the industry and your company, you have a lot of systems with which you need to integrate, but Bizagi doesn't have such integrations, which makes it very difficult. Its scalability can also be improved. It is good for a startup, but when you need something more complex, it is not good."
"The gateway through which it connects with other vendors, specifically RPA vendors, is one aspect that could be improved."
"I'm not really satisfied with the reporting aspect."
"The solution's interface could be a bit more user-friendly and I would like to see more integrations with other Office products, not just Office 365."
"It needs some better notation functionality."
Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 58 reviews while Bizagi is ranked 7th in Process Automation with 78 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Bizagi is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bizagi writes "A flexible, customizable solution that reduced time to market, but the UI and customer support could be better". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Oracle Application Express (APEX), whereas Bizagi is most compared with Camunda, Visio, Bonita, Microsoft Power Apps and Visual Paradigm. See our Appian vs. Bizagi report.
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