ARIS BPA and SAP Signavio Process Manager compete in the business process management category. SAP Signavio has the upper hand due to its ease of use and collaborative nature.
Features: ARIS BPA offers comprehensive process modeling tools, strategic planning capabilities, and a database system for extensive analysis. Its flexibility allows for integration of enterprise architecture with process modeling. SAP Signavio Process Manager is appreciated for its collaborative environment, ease of use, and web-based accessibility that facilitates cooperation across departments. It also allows users to model processes interactively with powerful collaboration tools.
Room for Improvement: ARIS BPA could improve its workflow engine and integration capabilities, as it faces challenges due to a steep learning curve and high cost. SAP Signavio's reporting and integration options could be enhanced, and its user interface updated for better user engagement. Flexible licensing remains an area for further development.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ARIS BPA offers on-premises and cloud deployment but is perceived as complex with some support limitations. SAP Signavio stands out with its streamlined SaaS deployment, providing smoother deployment experiences and generally satisfactory support, though technical assistance could be improved.
Pricing and ROI: While ARIS BPA is a high-cost solution with a slow ROI, its depth of features justifies the expense for large enterprises. SAP Signavio is more cost-effective, benefiting from flexible licensing and supportive services, although recent price increases raise concerns for smaller businesses.
We can draw and document our processes, then analyze data within SAP Signavio Process Manager.
The consultants are fine, however, reliance on single experts for modules can be risky.
I would rate their technical support a ten.
I have not encountered issues myself, but one of my colleagues found that support was provided quite late, resolving the problem in one or two days rather than instantly.
For user scalability, it is a matter of licenses, while functional scalability is supported and easy to implement.
ARIS BPA has high scalability and wide scalability for any enterprise or organization.
The stability of ARIS BPM is quite strong, rated eight out of ten.
Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance.
Software AG could improve this by making the database more open.
ARIS BPA needs to be more accurate when generating documents.
It should also integrate with non-SAP systems for better functionality.
After SAP acquired Signavio, the prices increased significantly, making it too expensive for our small company to afford.
ARIS BPA is a tool to build models and frameworks for organizations or reengineer business processes from both functional and business perspectives.
ARIS BPA has high scalability and wide scalability for any enterprise or organization.
The maintenance capabilities of ARIS BPM and the strong underlying database are particularly valuable.
The ability to perform queries is a feature unique to SAP Signavio Process Manager, and it proves to be very useful for our needs.
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?
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.
The Signavio portfolio of web-based business transformation solutions helps companies to understand and optimize all of their business processes quickly and at scale, providing instant insights for informed decision-making. Signavio’s intuitive analysis, change management and execution solutions around process excellence include use cases like digital transformation, operational excellence and customer-centricity, placing them at the heart of global organizations.
Over 1 million users in more than 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on Signavio products to make processes part of their company’s DNA. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Signavio was founded in 2009 to address the need for a collaborative approach to process management.
Signavio was acquired by SAP in the first quarter of 2021. For more information, visit www.signavio.com
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