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Appian vs WinAutomation

Appian
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179 Ratings
WinAutomation
7 Ratings

Appian

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Score 8 out of 100

Based on 179 reviews and ratings

WinAutomation

7 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

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Likelihood to Recommend

Appian

I believe that Appian is very well-suited to provide an approval work-flow. For making requests where there is a specific hierarchy of approvals that must occur, it is great. For example, if an employee needs to make a capital request for a long term project, the number of approvals can be set based on the amount of the items/work that is to be capitalized. If the amount is < 10000, maybe only manager approval is required. If the amount is over 10,000, Department Budgetary approval is also required. Over 25,000, Finance approval is required. Over 100,000, executive approval is required. Appian makes it very easy to set these conditions and send out tasks based on them. Appian also Excels at reporting. Appian provides the tools to report on any of the data that is captured in the request. This data can be exported to Excel to be used for audits or data management. Data can be reported in a variety of ways grid format, generate a pdf, or with charts and graphs. I don't believe that Appian should be used to replace any cost accounting type of functions. There are enterprise systems, such as Oracle that do a better job with that. Appian's strength is providing workflows.

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Christine Mulready | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

WinAutomation is great at web data extraction jobs where you need to go through steps on a web site to get to the data you are after. You can use WinAutomation to click buttons, move the mouse, send specific key combinations. WinAutomation is also good for ftp monitoring and automating jobs that use many programs.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Low-Code Development

Appian
8.2
WinAutomation
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Visual Modeling
Appian
7.6
WinAutomation
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Drag-and-drop Interfaces
Appian
8.2
WinAutomation
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Platform Security
Appian
9.3
WinAutomation
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Platform User Management
Appian
7.6
WinAutomation
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Reusability
Appian
7.9
WinAutomation
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Platform Scalability
Appian
8.6
WinAutomation
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Pros

Appian

  • I have observed after version 17.1 we have a lot of good features in Appian that improve usability (UX). This adds real value in this competitive Digital space.
  • You can understand business use case and convert it to a logical process automation.
  • Process Modeller has improved a lot and providing smart services use adds more value.
  • Service integration helps us to seamlessly integrate with third-party systems

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Ravi Joshi, PMI-ACP® | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

  • Automates repetitive tasks
  • Easy to configure
  • Flexible to allow for more complicated automation
  • Notifies me when a process has failed

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Cons

Appian

  • Advanced functionality requires use of the Appian expression language. The more advanced the logic, the harder it is to build with the expression language. This means development expertise is more relevant if you need advanced functionality, which I imagine applies almost all the time. I would much prefer if they allowed some common language such as JavaScript out of the box.
  • Debugging has proved difficult. It’s easy for developers to get the app to or feature to a “working” state but it needs robust alpha testing.
  • Deployment can be tricky. When a solution gets big and there are many teams and dependencies, it needs a careful process to ensure things don’t break.
  • Reasuability of Appian objects is both a pro and con. Reusing objects across apps may be more trouble than its worth because of creating heavy dependencies. Experience is helpful to strike the right balance.

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WinAutomation

  • Licensing can randomly lose the license key and need to be reapplied.
  • Secure FTP commands need to be revamped as some FTP sites will not connect via SFTP.

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Likelihood to Renew

Appian

Appian 9.0
Based on 16 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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WinAutomation

No score
No answers yet
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Usability

Appian

Appian 8.6
Based on 45 answers
Great platform for providing business process management. Fairly easy to learn tool (especially now that I have seen the evolution over 5 years). More difficult to master, but there is a great community that is always willing and able to help solve your problem.

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Helmut Arnold | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

WinAutomation 8.5
Based on 2 answers
For most tasks WinAutomation is great and easy to use. You just set up tasks on a step by step basis and you can even tell the program what to do when there is an error (such as continue with job). Sometimes with complicated web extraction jobs it would be good to be able to easily extract data from the web page source.

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Support Rating

Appian

Appian 8.1
Based on 123 answers
We have a mixture of onsite and offshore support by Appian and their partner Cognizant. Our stated support hours for the business are 9-5pm Mon-Fri. Cognizant being located in India provides us with coverage up to 9pm should anything happen that needs urgent attention. Appian Cloud Support are also there should we have any issues connecting to the application.

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Paul Cabrelle | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

WinAutomation 9.6
Based on 6 answers
There are great online support documents and helpful tutorials.

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In-Person Training

Appian

Appian 9.0
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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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
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WinAutomation

No score
No answers yet
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Online Training

Appian

Appian 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Really great training platform. Very visual and easy to use.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
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WinAutomation

No score
No answers yet
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Implementation Rating

Appian

Appian 9.0
Based on 8 answers
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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Peter Newnam | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

No score
No answers yet
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Alternatives Considered

Appian

The main advantage of Appian is the cost structure that is more suitable for starting a test-project to see how develop in Appian and most of all how Appian is accepted inside the company. In few weeks you can show the first results and start the journey on digitalization.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

I did not have to review other applications before deciding to purchase WinAutomation. I downloaded the trial and after a few days of using the trial, I knew this was the correct application for what I needed to automate.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Appian

  • Our objective to reduce customer effort when dealing with government by 25% was exceeded. In the process of applying for an alcohol licence renewal alone, we saw approximately 80% reduction in time and effort for the business customer - and that was just a prototype! Imagine the possibilities when this is taken into a live environment!

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Lynley Johnston | TrustRadius Reviewer
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WinAutomation

  • WinAutomation has allowed our company to operate more effiecently
  • We've mined the internet to create new data products which we've monitized
  • Allowed us to automate jobs

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Screenshots

WinAutomation

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Pricing Details

Appian

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Appian Editions & Modules

Edition
Free$0
Standard60.002
Flat FeeContact Sales3
EnterpriseContact Sales4
  1. per user per month
  2. one fixed price per app, unlimited users
  3. unlimited number of apps, priced by user
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WinAutomation

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

WinAutomation Editions & Modules

Edition
Per User Plan$15.001
Per Flow Plan$500.002
  1. Per User Per Month
  2. Five Flows Per Month
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Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Appian
8.3
WinAutomation
9.8

Likelihood to Renew

Appian
9.0
WinAutomation
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Usability

Appian
8.6
WinAutomation
8.5

Support Rating

Appian
8.1
WinAutomation
9.6

In-Person Training

Appian
9.0
WinAutomation
—

Online Training

Appian
10.0
WinAutomation
—

Implementation Rating

Appian
9.0
WinAutomation
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