ABBYY Timeline vs SAP Signavio Process Intelligence comparison
ABBYY and SAP are both solutions in the Process Mining category. ABBYY is ranked #12, while SAP is
ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.8. ABBYY holds a 2.0% mindshare in PM, compared to
SAP’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ABBYY users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of SAP users who would recommend it.
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Categories and Ranking
ABBYY Timeline
Ranking in Process Mining
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Signavio Process Intell...
Ranking in Process Mining
7th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Mindshare comparison
As of April 2025, in the Process Mining category, the mindshare of ABBYY Timeline is 2.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Signavio Process Intelligence is 7.2%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
The software is user-friendly, flexible, and can be used with various data sources. It provides various reports and charts that help organizations to identify areas for improvement and optimize their processes. ABBYY Timeline is a great choice for business process analysts, process owners, and IT professionals who are looking for a tool to help them analyze and optimize their processes. The process flow/diagram is the most valuable feature, as it offers a helpful visual simulation that allows users to see what's happening in the grand scheme of things and then drill down into specific tasks and processes to see where the bottlenecks are. For those companies that look for the low-hanging fruit in terms of process automation and operational excellence, this is the tool you need to succeed.
Predominantly, it enables financial services organizations to build up process knowledge and improve operational efficiency
The most valuable features are Process Manager and Process Governance functionalities.
The area that could be improved in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence is its Journey…
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"ABBYY Timeline provides various reports and charts that help us identify areas for improvement and optimize our business processes."
"Predominantly, it enables financial services organizations to build up process knowledge and improve operational efficiency."
"The product is relatively user friendly, it does what you need it to do."
"Everything is valuable. If you're looking at the process documentation feature, it's really easy to use. We have official training from Signavio trainers, but sometimes I do the training myself very shortly for our colleagues. In less than one or two hours, they are already able to model the business process themselves. The language is really easy. The user interface is really easy. If you're talking about process simulation, we have customers and clients internally who are using it a lot, because they are from logistics or operations. They have numbers and KPIs behind the process. They know their numbers, so they have to see how they can improve a given business processes with a change in the task sequence or a change in the numbers of KPIs. If you're talking about the process mining, it is integrated into the whole solution."
"Being able to deploy in shorter cuts."
"The product helps us build solid business use cases."
"I like the tool's ability to visualize the entire process flow, how the process flow flows, and what deviations happen from the process flow. It also helps to figure out the process bottlenecks."
"The product's best feature is the connection and integration between all of the capabilities."
"One of the most valuable things about process intelligence is that it allows you to mine data over a long period of time, such as one or two years. This gives us a deep understanding of how your processes actually work."
"There are a couple of new features available in Timeline that still need more time to mature."
"The solution is not very intuitive. It is very complicated to use."
"SAP has to figure out a better way to price it. Their licensing structure isn't ideal as it's based on data; therefore, it's hard to estimate client costs."
"The challenge for a solution that utilizes modeling notations, is that the look and feel
of the models (e.g. in BPMN) is pre-defined."
"With the new release, I have some problems. Actually with Signavio, many of the processes are not viewable for unclear reasons. The product itself is reachable most of the time, but some processes are not there. Some pages do not loading at times."
"Interface could be more user friendly."
"The UI could be improved."
"It should be able to convert business workflows into media documents quickly."
"I would like to see a better version of the solution."
ABBYY Timeline is a cloud-based, AI-driven process mining tool. Using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology, ABBYY Timeline automatically builds an interactive digital twin of your business processes, analyzes them in real time to identify bottlenecks, and predicts future outcomes to facilitate better decision-making.
Why use process mining & task mining?
✔ End-to-end process visualization: Visualize the flow of your work through the process stages and see the delays, bottlenecks, and outliers. Gain insight into your “as-is” customer processes to understand challenges.
✔ Compliance risk management: Simplify compliance by using audit trails to build a model of your process and reason against it. Receive alerts when rules set in place are broken and follow up immediately to ensure that it won’t happen again.
✔ Greater ROI from automation: Drive down the cost of process evaluation and make it easy to identify high-value improvement opportunities. Discover the most valuable opportunities to implement RPA or automatically monitor the performance of your existing RPA processes.
✔ Accurate, un-biased data: Before, process mining relied on subject matter experts. Now, process mining software gives decision-makers facts and figures from real-time event log data to back up their decisions by serving as an irrefutable source of truth.
How Timeline process mining works
In four steps, discover and visualize process execution details automatically by leveraging artificial intelligence to examine desktop user interaction (known as task mining) or by analyzing your existing data (known as process mining) to quickly identify opportunities for improvement, monitor ongoing performance in real-time, and predict future outcomes.
Signavio Process Intelligence enables business users worldwide to run in-depth process analyses. ... Identify the root causes of poorly performing processes by detecting and visualizing compliance violations, monitor your process performance and act on critical cases and performance bottlenecks.
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