Appian vs Bizagi Digital Business Platform

Appian

Surely Appian is not a Site Development Tool. So we should avoid the use of a system for just UX development. We should look for process automation as much as we can mature the use cases.

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Ravi Joshi, PMI-ACP®

Solutions Architect

Fidelity InternationalInvestment Management, 5001-10,000 employees

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform

Permits dependence reduction on external IT suppliers, maximum value extraction from large/legacy systems, and business and IT collaboration. For big Companies, while an enterprise should expect to face a lot of difficulties, thus increasing the learning curve, while dealing with the platform's rollout the timeline to deploy is extensive.

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Erick de Leon Ponciano

Administrador de Redes e Infraestructura C.A. & Co

UNO - Grupo TerraOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Appian

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform

5.3

Dashboards

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5.3

Standard reports

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5.3

Custom reports

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5.3

Appian

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform

6.6

Process designer

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8.9

Process simulation

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8.0

Business rules engine

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7.5

SOA support

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5.6

Process player

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7.1

Support for modeling languages

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6.1

Form builder

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4.8

Model execution

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4.8

Appian

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform

5.3

Social collaboration tools

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5.3

Appian

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform

8.5

Content management

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8.5

Pros

Ease of Use - one of our main drivers was that it had to be simple to use. Moreso when a large proportion of our userbase are external to the airport and sometimes unknown, which makes training a particularly difficult task. We also didn't want our internal users to be slowed down after the introduction so again we put a lot of effort into making the interface as simple to use and visually uncluttered.
Version upgrades, enhancements, minor bug fixes and all loaded without much interruption to the system availability time. We generally schedule version upgrades so that they occur at 1am local time to avoid any impact on our user base.
Appian & Cognizant resources assigned to our implementation were and still are absolutely amazing. Going above and beyond to maximise the benefits that we obtain from the implementation. Proactive when it comes to dealing with business units that are somewhat stuck in their ways, happy to demonstrate better ways of doing things and providing solutions to problems that would have been otherwise assigned to the too hard basket.

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Paul Cabrelle

Business Analyst

Sydney AirportAirlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees

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It allows us to perform the digitization process easily and efficiently
You can model document processes.
Automated processes are more efficient and rapid.

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Erick de Leon Ponciano

Administrador de Redes e Infraestructura C.A. & Co

UNO - Grupo TerraOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Even if Appian is working a lot on it, it should improve the low-coding features.
Improvement of the form design not using sail.
Foster the connection for different customers, all of them using Appian. Having a process across companies and not only offices could be great.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Other

Banking Company, 201-500 employees

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export option to other format than Bizagi Engine :-)
customization of forms that can be use to design workflow
localization of export files

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Jakub Wilk

President & Co-Founder

EnovatioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Appian9.5

Based on 11 answers

We recently renewed our license with Appian. We are convinced that its flexibility, relative ease of use, the support they provide, there mobile advancements and their general willingness and desire to see us succeed all contributed to our reason to renew our agreement with Appian

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Michael Campbell, PMP,CSM

Director, Strategic Process Project Management

Scripps NetworksBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform10.0

Based on 1 answer

Try it and you will understand.

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Frederic Bouvart

SAP Architect (technique & fonctionnel) - Coordinateur - Intégrateur

ArcelorMittal IndusteelMining & Metals, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Appian8.8

Based on 28 answers

Overall I would say Appian is pretty easy to use. The learning curve for building forms and simple processes is short. However, a significant benefit of Appian is its use of business logic. In this case the user will need a deep understanding of logic statements (If, Or, And, etc). Also, to better use the data then a designer should have a good understanding of setting relationships between data points, building DB views and SQL queries. To realize the full power of Appian it does take someone with some development experience a good 6-12 months to be a well-rounded developer/designer. Also, it will help if the person doing the designing has some information architecture, interaction design experience. Knowledge on how organize data, layout forms, establish design patterns, will make the use of the forms easier.

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Michael Campbell, PMP,CSM

Director, Strategic Process Project Management

Scripps NetworksBroadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees

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Support

Appian8.4

Based on 52 answers

We have Appian support here full time who are always helpful and understand both the products and our needs. They help guide the product to help it stay stable.On the odd occasion we need to call Appian themselves, they have always been responsive and genuinely want to help us solve the issue.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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In-Person Training

Appian9.0

Based on 1 answer

As analyst I participated in a developer boot camp. At times it was hard to keep up but most of the time it made sense. Trainer took the time to explain and slowed pace down to answer questions etc.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

Appian10.0

Based on 1 answer

Really great training platform. Very visual and easy to use.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform9.0

Based on 1 answer

Online trainingFreeWell chapteredProgressive

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Frederic Bouvart

SAP Architect (technique & fonctionnel) - Coordinateur - Intégrateur

ArcelorMittal IndusteelMining & Metals, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We went through a light-touch Request for Proposal process, explaining the problem we were trying to fix and giving lots of examples of the current process and pain points. Appian was one of 10 respondents but stood out as having all of the components that would make putting the customer first, sharing information across multiple government agencies, workflow, low code and speed to build a working prototype that would work on multiple devices (pc, mobile, table) out of the box.Appian understood the problem we were trying to fix, and their response answered the majority of our concerns about how to solve the problems for the business customer by using and re-using information. Other providers could do some parts of the functionality needed, or offered to build the prototype from scratch, or couldn't meet our timeframes (due to length of delivery or lack of resources). Some of the respondents missed the point entirely and simply did not meet the requirements we set.Another factor was the cost estimate presented by the respondents - Appian was not the cheapest, but they were definitely not wildly expensive (unlike a couple of other respondents)!

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Lynley Johnston

Contract Senior Business Analyst

Department of Internal Affairs (NZ)Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees

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We use Bizagi modeler as it is for free and enable to draw workflow, collaborate with the customer and help to exchange files with the customer

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Jakub Wilk

President & Co-Founder

EnovatioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Master data process increased speed of processes 50%.
Product management processes increased timely information by 25% faster with decision making.
Improved accuracy of data across the enterprise as reduced issues by 20%.

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Keith Currie, B. Sc., PMP

Senior Project Manager, PMO

JD IrvingPaper & Forest Products, 10,001+ employees

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it speeds up very much designing the workflows so we save time and money
it helps to accept process with customer so it also safe time and money

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Jakub Wilk

President & Co-Founder

EnovatioComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

Appian

General

Free Trial

Yes

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Bizagi Digital Business Platform

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

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Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Feature Rating Comparison

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Process designer

Process simulation

Business rules engine

SOA support

Process player

Support for modeling languages

Form builder

Model execution

Social collaboration tools

Content management

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Usability

Support

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