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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.

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    Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ALaunched in August, 2022 and replacing Proofpoint Archiving and Compliance, Proofpoint's Intelligent Compliance Platform offers enterprises regulatory compliance safeguards while simplifying corporate legal protection practices. The platform offers AI-powered collection, classification, detection, prevention, search, eDiscovery, supervision, and predictive analytics, helping companies to meet complex compliance and information governance obligations.N/A

    Smarsh

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Smarsh Enterprise Platform is a unified, cloud-native solution designed to future-proof enterprise communications data strategies. Its technologies include elastic compute, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.N/A
    Pricing
    AppianProofpoint Intelligent ComplianceSmarsh
    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.
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppianProofpoint Intelligent ComplianceSmarsh
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AppianProofpoint Intelligent ComplianceSmarsh
    Considered Multiple Products
    Appian
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AppianProofpoint Intelligent ComplianceSmarsh
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Appian and Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance and Smarsh
    Feature
    Appian
    8.1
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance
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    Dashboards8.29 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.59 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.69 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Appian and Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance and Smarsh
    Feature
    Appian
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance
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    Process designer7.99 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation6.49 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine6.49 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support8.29 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player7.39 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder7.69 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.59 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AppianProofpoint Intelligent ComplianceSmarsh
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (139 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    -
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    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (95 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.4
    (118 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    AppianProofpoint Intelligent ComplianceSmarsh
    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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    Proofpoint
    Proofpoint Intelligent Compliance is well suited for organizations with a large amount of employees, in my opinion, as they have a lot of options for grouping users in various ways to send specific learning content to them. For a smaller organization, the employees might utilize all of the built-in training videos, phishing simulations, and content more rapidly, which would not justify the pricey cost of the tool.
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    Smarsh
    This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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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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    Proofpoint
    • Email archiving. Being able to access, on the fly, your entire email archive. Being able to filter by date, sender, attachment, etc. It can get really granular and is able to pull up records fast.
    • Targeted Attack Protection for all incoming emails. Having the ability to automatically scan, quarantine, or re-write URLs within emails. Comparing incoming emails to potential phishing attempts already seen by other institutions.
    • Email encryption & automatic encryption are based on certain rules set up on the firewall. e.g. automatically encrypt outgoing email if it has an attachment or contains a string of numbers that may be personal information.
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    Smarsh
    • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
    • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
    • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
    • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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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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    Proofpoint
    • The end-user interface is lacking in appeal/aesthetics and is not that intuitive. I have seen archive solutions that don't work very well have a better interface than this. I think the interface can be prettied up quite a bit.
    • The admin interface is lacking in features and is not intuitive. It has more capabilities than the previous archives I've used, but utilizing these features is a little complicated without demos or being walked through it.
    • We have had a lot of accounts not map properly. Apparently, there is a limit as to how many errors can be outstanding before you run into issues because all the emails tied to those issues are "queued" waiting for a home (and there is a storage limit for that). I have to set a reminder to check that periodically and resolve the issues manually.
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    Smarsh
    • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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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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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
    It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
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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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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
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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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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
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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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    Proofpoint
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    Smarsh
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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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    Proofpoint
    We did a bake off and for our particular needs Proofpoint was the right product. We used a matrix with requirements and their product checked all the boxes. Making it a easy decision.
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    Smarsh
    This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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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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    Proofpoint
    • Strengthened our staff's Cybersecurity Skills.
    • Provided a variety of additional training content that is used throughout the year
    • Allowed us to track and monitor which of our users need additional training in regard to Cybersecurity
    Incentivized
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    Smarsh
    • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
    Incentivized
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