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ARIS BPA vs Camunda comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.8
Calculating ROI with ARIS BPA varies, but users note operational improvements, time savings, and enhanced business transformation.
Sentiment score
7.8
Camunda enhances financial companies' efficiency and cost-effectiveness with streamlined processes, reusable code, and reduced operational expenses.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
ARIS BPA customer service is responsive and effective, but inconsistencies and communication issues affect overall satisfaction and improvement needs.
Sentiment score
6.2
Camunda's customer service is praised for engineer support but has mixed reviews on responsiveness, knowledge center, and pricing.
AWS provides the best support, followed by Microsoft, and then Google.
They provide better support for the enterprise edition.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
ARIS BPA is scalable and adaptable, though cost and complexity may pose challenges for expanding organizational use.
Sentiment score
6.9
Camunda provides scalable solutions with technologies like Spring Boot and Kubernetes, though database configuration may present challenges for some users.
Camunda offers a high level of scalability, especially when using its SaaS model, which manages and scales implementations automatically.
It allows for easy scaling, especially with ECS service configurations.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
ARIS BPA is now stable and reliable, with improved updates, minor connectivity issues, and enhanced cloud hosting robustness.
Sentiment score
7.8
Camunda is praised for stability and reliability, with minor integration challenges and occasional bugs, rated 7-10 by users.
There haven't been any significant outages in my experience with Camunda.
 

Room For Improvement

ARIS BPA requires improved workflow, integration, and usability, with a focus on automation, data analysis, and third-party compatibility.
Camunda's platform faces user dissatisfaction due to poor user-friendliness, documentation, performance, and costly licensing, needing significant improvements.
More open documentation would be beneficial to understand the deployment process better and facilitate easier setup.
There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible.
 

Setup Cost

ARIS BPA offers customizable licensing models but is considered expensive, with price negotiation recommended for enterprises utilizing its comprehensive suite.
Camunda provides cost-effective enterprise licenses, though costs can rise with usage, posing concerns for smaller companies.
For some services, such as hosting databases, Google is really expensive.
There is a licensing cost for using the SaaS model and Enterprise edition of Camunda.
 

Valuable Features

ARIS BPA offers flexible, comprehensive process modeling, integration, and analysis with strong reporting and usability features for diverse sectors.
Camunda offers flexible, lightweight architecture supporting BPMN, CMMN, and DMN, with user-friendly, non-programmer interfaces and seamless integration.
ECS also allows for horizontal scalability with thresholds that can be configured for CPU or memory.
 

Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA
Ranking in Business Process Design
4th
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Camunda
Ranking in Business Process Design
2nd
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 8.1%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Camunda is 12.3%, up from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Design
 

Featured Reviews

Libor Černý - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
Reduces costs with hardware abstraction and simplifies scaling
There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible. I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory to scale my solution. Not every software is built for deployment as a container service, although the current architecture trend is changing this.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?
The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.
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.
What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?
Improvement should be made as per customer requirements.
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM
Camunda BPM
 

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Sample Customers

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.
24 Hour Fitness, Accruent, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, CSS Insurance, Deutsche Telekom, Generali, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, Swisscom AG, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VHV Group, Zalando
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