ARIS BPA vs Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management comparison

Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management and ARIS BPA are both solutions in the Project Portfolio Management category. Additionally, 66% of Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of ARIS BPA users who would recommend it.

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66% willing to recommend

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89% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management and ARIS BPA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Alfabet IT Planning & Portf...

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Portfolio Management (14th)

ARIS BPA

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (3rd), Business Process Management (BPM) (4th)

Featured Reviews

reviewer1020717

Head of Technology at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees

Helps us to implement and understand the status of our projects

The initial setup is straightforward. The solution's deployment takes around two months time. We have to set up the solution. We have to put in the data to ensure that the solution is working. We need to fill out our process, our tools, and our data. Two developers were involved in the deployment process. It is a self-maintained solution that requires updates from time to time. I rate the setup an eight out of ten.

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Libor Černý

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

I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community

From the start, there were some difficulties on how to create outputs since there wasn't a repository tool in version 6. However, in version 7, there has been a tool for creating standards for a company, and that tool has been very intuitive. While I have been using this tool for several years, other people just starting to use it find the learning curve steep. This tool is very robust and accommodates many roles, where people can participate from compliance, IT designers, etc. This can create problems for users who have no experience with similar tools. It took me a year before I felt comfortable with this tool, because when I came from university it was the first or second tool that I worked on. It took me a year to run every feature or use it for every possibility since this tool is very robust. We sometimes have to create the link to the server and the repository twice because it is deleted once for some unknown reason. Though, this is not a big problem. There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The dashboard is the most valuable feature."

"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."

"The matrix model makes building relations easier."

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

"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."

"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."

"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."

"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."

"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."

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Cons

"The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved."

"The interface is a little archaic."

"If you want to create new reports then you have to use JavaScript, or ARIS script as they call it, which is beyond the competencies of most people."

"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."

"The solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."

"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."

"The product is difficult to use for someone without prior knowledge of working with it. It requires a certain level of administration training."

"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."

"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive. There is a yearly licensing cost. There are no additional costs, only the standard license, and the cloud license."

"In terms of pricing, it would be nice if it were more affordable."

"The product is expensive."

"Prices are high. However, they are worth it if the organization utilizes the tool to its full potential."

"The product is a bit pricey."

"It is an expensive solution."

"ARIS BPA is too costly from a licensing perspective."

"If you can afford it, it's the best so far."

"The setup cost and pricing depend on the license (Modeler, Viewer, Administrator)."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management?

The dashboard is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management?

The solution is expensive. There is a yearly licensing cost. There are no additional costs, only the standard license, and the cloud license.

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What needs improvement with Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management?

The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved.

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What do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

Pricing for ARIS BPA is average, not cheap or expensive. It's cost-effective and worth the money we pay.

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

Improvement should be made as per customer requirements.

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

planningIT, alfabet planningIT, Alfabet IT Planning and Portfolio Management

ARIS, ARIS BPM

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Overview

Software AG's Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management Platform provides decision-makers with insight into the IT portfolio to make the right IT investment decisions and to plan how IT will support the business in the future.

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

Sample Customers

FUJITSU, Coca Cola, ING, CreditSuisse, CosmosDirekt, GTA, Echo Entertainment Group, Electrolux, Cern

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.

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