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ARIS BPA pros and cons

Vendor: Software AG

4.2 out of 5

65 reviews
89% willing to recommend

3,541 followers

Pros & Cons summary

ARIS BPA offers business users and management features like process modeling, documentation, and detailed process analysis with simulation, aiding decision-making and optimization. While it supports integration with systems like SAP, scalability in real-time data is robust, yet improvements are needed in WebMethods integration and third-party tools. Its strong collaboration features and centralized repository aid efficient documentation, though reporting simplification and migration ease are areas for enhancement. Better tool support documentation is necessary.

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PROS

ARIS BPA is designed to assist in business process modeling and analysis, seamlessly integrating end-to-end business processes with organizational vision, strategies, and objectives.

It offers robust reporting capabilities, allowing for the generation of various reports to analyze and optimize business processes effectively.

ARIS BPA supports extensive integration capabilities with platforms like SAP SolMan and Alfabet EA, enhancing its functionality and usability across different systems.

It features an object-oriented modeling approach, which enables efficient tracing and management of business processes and their various elements.

The platform is scalable and provides comprehensive support for both legacy and new technologies, ensuring adaptation and integration in diverse IT environments.

CONS

Improvements are needed in the integration between ARIS, webMethods, and project versions.

ARIS BPA's support, including documentation and responsiveness to customer requirements, requires enhancement.

The complexity of migration to newer releases is a concern, demanding additional support and resources.

Real-time data analysis and automation flexibility could be advanced beyond static views.

There are challenges in implementing documented processes into the business realistically.

ARIS BPA Pros review quotes

HS

Organizational Development Officer at OeKB

Oct 12, 2021

If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple.

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Michiel Overeem

Process Architect at Stars and Stories Nederland B.V.

Jan 14, 2022

We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment.

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Veronika Ellermann

BPM Method and Tools Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 3, 2022

In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily.

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KH

Interprise Architect/Chief Architect/Project, Portfolie manager at KLH-Consulting

Jul 23, 2018

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.

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Head of Group BPM Standards at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jan 26, 2022

One of the many advantages of ARIS is that it is supported by a very strong BPM community, which is critical for us. Although it has been in business for many years, it is still at an early stage of evolution. There are so many instances where your specific use case or requirement for using ARIS hasn't necessarily been matured across the sector. So, you need access to a very active community to help you explore possible solutions and ways in which ARIS can be used to achieve those use cases.

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Laurent Salembier

DSI Functions Support at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 31, 2022

In addition to our applications, we have also stored, in ARIS, the footprint of where those applications have been implemented. That means we know in which country a given application has been implemented. With embedded geolocation, we have a very visual world map, where we can see the footprint of each application.

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Process manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 26, 2022

I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions.

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Regina Janitsch

Senior Manager Organization and Process Management at OeKB

Mar 1, 2022

ARIS BPA provides very good visibility and control of processes because we have a concurrent license system. As a result, every person in our company and group is able to look at the published processes.

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Director at T-Systems International GmbH

Feb 15, 2024

ARIS has a good collaboration function. You create a portal where any authorized users can work on the models. There are simple flows for making and approving changes.

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Business Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Jun 19, 2019

The stability of the ARIS BPM platform is quite good. The nice thing about it is the central database, where we can use all of our data. We can even manage users.

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ARIS BPA Cons review quotes

HS

Organizational Development Officer at OeKB

Oct 12, 2021

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.

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Michiel Overeem

Process Architect at Stars and Stories Nederland B.V.

Jan 14, 2022

There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them.

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Veronika Ellermann

BPM Method and Tools Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 3, 2022

The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it.

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KH

Interprise Architect/Chief Architect/Project, Portfolie manager at KLH-Consulting

Jul 23, 2018

One of the issues is, when you are defining databases, the way they use entities and relationship diagrams, the way we can define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve.

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Head of Group BPM Standards at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jan 26, 2022

The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the cross and upselling of modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement.

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Laurent Salembier

DSI Functions Support at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 31, 2022

One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch.

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Process manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 26, 2022

There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports.

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Regina Janitsch

Senior Manager Organization and Process Management at OeKB

Mar 1, 2022

Migration to the next release is very tricky. You can't do it without support from ARIS or from a software kit. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to migrate. My impression is that a lot of companies do not migrate regularly because of that issue.

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Director at T-Systems International GmbH

Feb 15, 2024

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.

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Business Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Jun 19, 2019

With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting.

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