Appian vs Celonis

• Allows at a glance workflow documentation which assists in the need we have for information readiation.
• Drag and drop interface for workflow development greatly speeds our apps time to market.
• Using the advanced features of Appian, we are able to create working sites in a fraction of the time it would take to do so using "traditional" development.

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• The team is incredible at integrating background tables, and building out the real-life processes end users are going through so that opportunities can be quickly identified. They continually persevere and are willing to bring in new data sets to make the platform as productive as possible.
• The team continually challenges our internal business processes and setups to ensure that we are hunting for opportunities and pushing the limits of what we thought was possible for improving our operations
• The X-ray view within the process explorer and the variant explorer provides a transparent overview of the order to cash process which we did not have previously
• OLAP tables and different dimensions to slice the data with [helping] us find the root cause of the improvement opportunity that we want to focus on
• Execution instruments like Action Flow help us take advantage of any insights provided to us within the process explorer
• Dashboard views of specific KPIs help us build and export management reports with ease

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• Search issues when type ahead and database search are used in the same field.
• Buttons implementation where user is require[d] to click on the button description - if clicks on the button outside that text - button will not work.
• Problems with using certain off-the-shelf performance tools like WebLoad or Neoload. That is because of different dynamic variables being used internally in Appian - which these tools are unable to correlate. We are still investigating using other tools like Jmeter to overcome dynamic correlation problem for performance testing.

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• Performance: While most of the time the performance is great, there are still days where the performance is too low for too long periods of time.
• Still some minor, inexplicable errors with no pattern (i.e. Data Load gets stuck for 2 days)
• Client Centricity (They are working on that with their new structure of Consultants, though)

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• I believe it has negatively impacted our release dates. There may have been a misunderstanding as to the learning curve, even though it is "low code."
• The look and feel of the applications created using Appian have uniformity and it's easier to have "reuse" between applications.
• There is less developer control when it comes to features. I think this mainly has to do with the amount of plugins available. I would think there should be many more available plugins. But again, our use case is probably different than most others.

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• I have seen Celonis save tens of millions of euros for some clients in the improvements of processing of invoices.
• I have seen Celonis take days off of processing times in purchasing processes.
• I have seen Celonis provide insights for potential opportunities but no monetary or process-based results when an organization did not take action of the insights generated by the platform.

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