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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Appian

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AAppian is a low-code development and business process management platform. It features drag-and-drop design for app building, automated work processes, unified data management, and cloud-based deployment.

    $0

    Google Gemini

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Gemini is a natively multimodal agentic platform designed to synthesize and act upon data across text, image, audio, and video modalities. It serves as a centralized intelligence layer that integrates across the Google Workspace ecosystem and Android/ChromeOS platforms to perform autonomous, multi-step tasks.N/A

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A
    Pricing
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Appian Community Edition
    $0
    Application - Input-Only
    $2
    per month per user
    Application - Infrequent
    $9
    per month per user
    Application - Standard
    $75
    per month per user
    Platform
    Custom Quote Priced per user with unlimited apps.
    minimum 100 users, no maximum
    Unlimited
    Custom Quote Priced per development with unlimited apps.
    unlimited
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Considered Multiple Products
    Appian
    Chose Appian
    Personally, I feel Appian is a more focused and tightly integrated product. Our time to delivery was shorter, while actually delivering more. The fact that apps are natively mobile out the box, can not be overstated.
    Incentivized
    Google
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Appian and Google Gemini and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Appian
    8.1
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Google Gemini
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards8.29 Ratings00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Standard reports8.59 Ratings00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Custom reports7.69 Ratings00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Appian and Google Gemini and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Appian
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Google Gemini
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Process designer7.99 Ratings00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process simulation6.49 Ratings00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Business rules engine6.49 Ratings00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    SOA support8.29 Ratings00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process player7.39 Ratings00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Form builder7.69 Ratings00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Model execution8.59 Ratings00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Appian and Google Gemini and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    Google Gemini
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Appian and Google Gemini and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    Google Gemini
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Small Businesses
    Bizagi
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (139 ratings)
    8.6
    (18 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (95 ratings)
    9.1
    (18 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (118 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AppianGoogle GeminiOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Appian
    Appian works great for automating manual processes and integrating multiple systems through its toolset. It gives great flexibility for establishing rules for approvals, routings, escalations, and the like. Because of the low code toolset, it's very easy to deploy and make changes as needed as processes evolve and as the organization learns to utilize the system better. Minimal maintenance is required to support the applications build on the platform. Some of the automated testing integration with tools like Jenkins is limited so that may be an issue for some.
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    Google
    Gemini is fantastic for receiving quick answers to questions where accuracy is not paramount. It is great for brainstorming ideas. It is also fantastic for analysing large swathes of unformatted data and finding correlations. Gemini can also transcribe handwriting and audio files making it excellent for formative assessment. It can also now create Google Slides which is great for lesson planning. Gemini is only as good as the prompts you provide it with though so you must remember to be exact with your prompts to get the best outputs.
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    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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    Pros
    Appian
    • 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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    Google
    • The new image editing functionality surprised me
    • In general, file loading is better than in other AI programs
    • I think it's somewhat faster than other AI programs, or at least that's the impression it usually gives
    • Features like canvas and deep research are very interesting
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
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    Cons
    Appian
    • 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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    Google
    • Faces in generated images can be kind of scary looking, deformed.
    • When asking for specific text in an image, it often generates funky randomly spelled text instead.
    • Tried a bulk image search with uploaded png files to find the same images online and the links it provided were 404 errors instead.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Appian
    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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    Google
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    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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    Usability
    Appian
    Appian is a low code environment, because of this, a very good visual interface is required. Appian is providing a feature-rich dashboard [that] we can use for building the dashboards and other interfaces. Appian also provides patches and releases to enhance these features. A developer can start off development just by going through a basic course from the Appian learning community.
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    Google
    It's standard usability interface - no problems or challenges using it. I do prefer Claude still because of the different options/modes you can toggle on and off. I don't think Gemini has those options. It's a great daily companion for quick problem solving but not great for larger projects or conversations
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    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Support Rating
    Appian
    Appian is one of the leading low code business automation platforms that support RPA, decision rules, case management, workflow automation, and machine learning all in a single bundle. But it is also harder to implement and replace the traditional business process.
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    Google
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    Oracle
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    In-Person Training
    Appian
    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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    Google
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    Oracle
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    Online Training
    Appian
    Very boring; hard to get through quickly, but rather effective in demonstrating the use of the platform.
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    Google
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    Oracle
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    Implementation Rating
    Appian
    It was really seamless. SaaS in the true definition of the word. We logged on and started using the product. Very easy.
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    Google
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    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    Appian
    Appian has enormously transformed and keeps on updating the product every quarter to meet the latest needs of the world with new innovations & technologies being integrated within the platform. What gives more pleasure than a product that keeps on continuous[ly] improv[ing]?
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    Google
    Gemini seems very simple to use, veyr similar to ChatGPT, I wish they did have a capability such as ChatGPT projects one, so one can separate topics easily, it's very customizable, where I believe it defeats the others is that, is already very simple to use all of Google ecosystem, such as Drive, docs, sheets and else
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    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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    Return on Investment
    Appian
    • 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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    Google
    • Free way to gain another team member
    • Helps me be more efficient and overcome blocks in my workflow
    • Speeds up my ability to update our website's calendar by easily double if not more
    • Allows me to dabble in areas that I have no expertise in such as coding
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    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
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    ScreenShots

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