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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

    Shopify Flow

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AShopify Flow is used to create custom workflows that automate tasks in an ecommerce store and across apps, without needing to code. It also lets users connect existing apps together to complete more jobs. Typical tasks carried out by Shopify Flow include automating inventory tasks like reordering and restocking, to managing fraud concerns.N/A

    Zuri

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AZuri headquartered in Sao Paulo offers a BPMS platform for enterprises, providing a drag and drop process designer and workflow building tool.N/A
    Pricing
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    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
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    Considered Multiple Products
    Appian
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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    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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    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
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Appian and Shopify Flow and Zuri
    Feature
    Appian
    8.1
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Shopify Flow
    -
    Ratings
    Zuri
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Dashboards8.29 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Standard reports8.59 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports7.69 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Appian and Shopify Flow and Zuri
    Feature
    Appian
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Shopify Flow
    -
    Ratings
    Zuri
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Process designer7.99 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Process simulation6.49 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine6.49 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SOA support8.29 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Process player7.39 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder7.69 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Model execution8.59 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Appian and Shopify Flow and Zuri
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    Shopify Flow
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    Zuri
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Appian and Shopify Flow and Zuri
    Feature
    Appian
    -
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    Shopify Flow
    -
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    Zuri
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    Small Businesses
    Bizagi
    Score8.3 out of 10
    airSlate WorkFlow
    Score10 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    Score9 out of 10
    Microsoft Power Automate
    Score8.5 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    Score9 out of 10
    Microsoft Power Automate
    Score8.5 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (139 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (95 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Support Rating
    8.4
    (118 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AppianShopify FlowZuri
    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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    Shopify
    Automatically highlights and holds potentially fraudulent orders:        - Based on the order risk level analyzed by Shopify (low, medium or high), Shopify Flow then interprets different actions to proceed with. Sending real-time alert emails based on the event conditions to designated teams.
    Incentivized
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    Zuri
    Workflow automation where you need business resiliency adjusting processes during time to enhance client experience. Zuri is easy. It allows easy updates on stablished (simple and robust!) processes to enhance the workflow. Operations Eficiency gets focus on reducing the human hours and human errors in communications (e-mails), manuals tasks such as spreadsheets and data treatments, all types of repetitive tasks can be automated. Easy, simple and fast by non technical people. Scenarios where you need to automate workflows to ensure qualify and controlling the progresses and productivity of teams, people and organizations. Dashboards and reports specifically created for my own KPIs and goals. I could benefit from more business intelligence, getting my operations data structured (structurated data) and then used Analytics to better understand where and how to improve my operations to: increase client experience, improve profit margins while I was decreasing costs and waist.
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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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    Shopify
    • Review high-risk orders before capturing payment.
    • Automate product inventory management
    • Automate notices to eCommerce operations for special events such as sharp increase of product reviews crossing a threshold
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    Zuri
    • Workflow automation made simple and fast by non technical people.
    • Hyperautomation (technology and processes orchestration).
    • Visual and intuitive interface developed for citizen developers and IT teams.
    • Accelerate the automation solutions development by IT teams (from simple to complex).
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Shopify
    • User permissions are not granular. A user can get full access to read and write or none.
    • The event change log records minimum information and does not last for more than 72 hours in Shopify.
    Incentivized
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    Zuri
    • AI can be slightly improved.
    • Process mining can be slightly improved.
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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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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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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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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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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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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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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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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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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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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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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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    Shopify
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    Zuri
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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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    Shopify
    In my experience, Shopify Flow is very easy to use. It is free if you have a Shopify Plus license. At this time of writing, Shopify Flow can already integrate with some 3rd party apps and more is coming. I think there is high growth potential for Shopify Flow.
    Incentivized
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    Zuri
    We tried other options, saw many demos, some customized, and used some Trials. Zuri was faster and simpler to model processes and activate the automation solutions. Zuri does now require technical knowledge to automate processes. Business people (citizen developers) can easily create their own automations in simple way, in minutes. Despite, Zuri is less expensive. And, it is used by entire organization, not only IT teams. Although IT teams have the governance (full governance and control - including auditing reports ready in clicks) the business people are on the spot too. IT teams use it to accelerate (faster and better, more controlled!) automation solutions (from simple to complex - all with drag and drop feature) the business people (Sales, Marketing, HR, Suppliers, Logistics...) they can easily automate their processes without the waiting time until IT team can deliver what is needed today.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Shopify
    • Saving customer service team 15 hours monthly
    • Reduce inventory backfill issues to 0
    • Reducing fraud orders by 80%
    Incentivized
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    Zuri
    • ROI was around 7 to 9x the second option we had.
    • Less expensive than other BPMS tools (options), very fast to implement.
    • Additionally, this is a BPMS tool that is used by all organization, not only IT teams.
    • Democratized expertise on automation leaving IT team free for more strategic projects rather than creating processes/workflow automation solutions for businesses teams.
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    ScreenShots

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