We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Avolution ABACUS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"ARIS process modeling and analysis allows integration of end-to-end business processes with the organization's vision, strategies, and business objectives, through visual management."
"The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting."
"The simulation engine and SAP integration are technically very robust."
"The matrix model makes building relations easier."
"ARIS BPA has a good directory option, which helps to keep track of all of your metadata, and that's very useful."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"The ability to sort via multiple criteria to identify the relationships you need for a specific object."
"It is a very stable solution...The initial setup of Avolution ABACUS is very easy."
"It's more than just an enterprise architecture tool as it has a lot of nice features, e.g. messaging, simulation, etc."
"The product is easy to use and well-structured for the integrations we need it to make."
"If you face new challenges or issues then you can dynamically customize according to the business needs."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key."
"The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed."
"You can design using a diagram tool installed on your desktop, a key difference from other vendors."
"There are a lot of different features, but the business/decision-maker feature, visibility, and dashboards are most valuable."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"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."
"An area where it lacks and can be considered for improvement in the future is if we can somehow automate or learn how we can automate different processes."
"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."
"The standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."
"Avolution ABACUS has the drawback of needing data filtering at the development level, unlike some tools that offer filtering at deployment. Two areas where Avolution ABACUS could be improved are regional support and flexibility in model selection. Sometimes, it's challenging to access support or updates in certain regions, which can slow down progress. Additionally, it would be beneficial if the tool allowed more flexibility in selecting multiple models within a single unit."
"They should take more initiative to implement things that competing products have already come out with."
"The tool doesn't have any intelligence built in. We have to design the dashboards ourselves, which is a challenge because we have to depend on the vendor for customizations."
"The company needs to update the UML version they are using for the product as it is quite old."
"The reporting could be easier to configure."
"I use reference models, which are taxonomies, in my EA work. It is a reference model/taxonomy of things with capabilities, sub capabilities, and sub-sub capabilities, so you're working it down. I haven't yet found a simple way to implement that in Abacus. It could be that it is there, but I don't know how to do it."
"The most valuable features are the catalog and the diagram."
"Their local presence in the Middle East could be scaled more, particularly in customer service. It would be good if they'd also have mobile dashboards for executive management out of the box."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Avolution ABACUS is ranked 8th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 14 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Avolution ABACUS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Avolution ABACUS writes " An out of the box tool that creates reports on the fly that can help your client make better decisions". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas Avolution ABACUS is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, MEGA HOPEX, Visio and BiZZdesign HoriZZon.
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