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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ARIS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AARIS Platform (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) is an enterprise business process management (BPM), process mining, and process intelligence platform developed by ARIS (formerly a division of Software AG). ARIS enables enterprise organizations to document, analyze, simulate, and optimize business processes, establishing a digital twin of the organization (DTO) to support operational transformation, governance, risk management, and enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) agent…N/A

    VisualCron

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AVisualCron is an automation, Integration and Task Scheduler tool. VisualCron combines many features into one product. VisualCron was founded in 2004. Through scheduling users can set Jobs to run on a specific time or event with the help of Triggers. The Tasks in each Job automate scripts to eliminate human errors. Through various Tasks users can integrate different systems through file transfer, encryption, compression and…N/A
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    ARISVisualCron
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    ARISVisualCron
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$1,499 per Server
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    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    ARISVisualCron
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of ARIS Process Context Platform and VisualCron
    Feature
    ARIS Process Context Platform
    9.1
    6 Ratings
    17% above category average
    VisualCron
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Dashboards7.96 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Standard reports9.76 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports9.86 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of ARIS Process Context Platform and VisualCron
    Feature
    ARIS Process Context Platform
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    VisualCron
    4.2
    1 Ratings
    54% below category average
    Process designer8.26 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process simulation8.66 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine6.46 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    SOA support7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player6.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder7.06 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Model execution6.82 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of ARIS Process Context Platform and VisualCron
    Feature
    ARIS Process Context Platform
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    1% above category average
    VisualCron
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    Social collaboration tools8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of ARIS Process Context Platform and VisualCron
    Feature
    ARIS Process Context Platform
    9.3
    6 Ratings
    14% above category average
    VisualCron
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    Content management9.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of ARIS Process Context Platform and VisualCron
    Feature
    ARIS Process Context Platform
    -
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    VisualCron
    3.5
    1 Ratings
    70% below category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Business Process Automation
    Comparison of Business Process Automation features of ARIS Process Context Platform and VisualCron
    Feature
    ARIS Process Context Platform
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    4.3
    1 Ratings
    45% below category average
    Business Process Modeling00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Decision Modeling00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Code-Based Automation00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    No-Code Automation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
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    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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    User Ratings
    ARISVisualCron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    ARISVisualCron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    Well suited for enterprise architecture modeling where the intent to document elements beyond processes as well, such as risks and controls, KPIs, systems, org charts, etc. It also has the excellent capability of creating custom reports, hence if looking for various views right from summary to detailed, this is a great tool. It is less appropriate for implementing the processes as it is not very strong in BPMN.
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    VisualCron does accommodate continuous file processing. Like packing and unpacking compressed files, splitting or merging files, sending E-mail's and executing queries on databases. VisualCron in less suitable for performing very complex operations on files like, arithmetic with numbers, dates or amounts. Very complex job scripts become cluttered. Debugging Job scripts is not easy.
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    Pros
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    • Query feature is excellent to extract information in a specific manner.
    • Ability to create custom reports.
    • Collaboration feature is very good.
    • Semantic checks to check validation errors.
    • cloud based central repository.
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    • VisualCron can pack and unpack files from many types of packing methods.
    • Clear job scripts with complex constructions can be written in VisualCron
    • VisualCron provides a clear graphical overview of the situation of all jobs.
    • VisualCron clearly indicates when a job has run into an error.
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    Cons
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    • Defining databases, use of entities and relationship diagrams, define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve.
    • Providing more standard reports and improving on access rights and privileges functionality
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    • VisualCron should more specifically indicate the root cause of an error.
    • If copying a file goes wrong, VisualCron reports 'can't copy file'. I expect 'no read permissions from original' or 'no write permissions from destination'.
    • VisualCron offers no way to execute a Job script line by line
    • In VisualCron, nested loops cannot be created.
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    Usability
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    I am a BPM and Enterprise Architect Consultant and hence have been using different BPM and EA tools for consulting practice. Until now I have used Opentext Provision EA,Sparx EA, MS Visio and IBM Blueworks. All of the tools used are good and have their own unique features and capabilities. ARIS BPA is widely used by my current organization for different projects.
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
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    Support Rating
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    It has good, even complex functionality that is provided by its library and ability to create relations between items, yet it is not hard to use. Anyone can use it in a short time. It provides reporting abilities and good documentation with the availability of exporting options. The only drawback I have seen was user management/login issues.
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    Questions and problems can be addressed to VisualCron 's support department via E-mail. I usually get a good answer from them fairly quickly. There is also a VisualCron forum where you can ask questions that will be answered by other VisualCron users.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    The Service area, they have been very useful. ARIS suite is covering number of applications. ARIS engine is very powerful and robust. The tool can be configured in many ways which can be beneficial but can be a curse at the same time. As a user, you need to apply this flexibility with care.
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    For simple processes, VisualCron is easier to use and maintain. For complicated processes, Quadient Inspire offers more options. The graphical representations of waiting, running or completed jobs is adequate for both products. The logging of job actions is better in Quadient Inpire as in VisualCron.
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    Return on Investment
    ARIS (SAG Aris GmbH)
    • Documentation of processes made it possible for anyone to see who does what, how and using what systems.
    • Dependency on specific people is eliminated.
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    • With VisualCron, I need 3 times less time to get file processing right.
    • If a VisualCron job goes wrong I need twice as much time to find the problem.
    • Visualcron does not run on Linux but on Windows which can make an upgrade and reboot take up to 6 times as long.
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    ScreenShots

    ARIS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Start page of ARIS Elements.Screenshot of Modeling a BPMN diagram using the web-based ARIS designer.Screenshot of A process landscape in the ARIS portal.Screenshot of A customer journey landscape in the ARIS portal.Screenshot of The steps view of a process model, automatically generated, enriched with multi-media content. An easier way to get process knowledge to employees.Screenshot of A management dashboard in the ARIS portal.

    VisualCron Screenshots

    Screenshot of Job - CPU usageScreenshot of Job - execution timeScreenshot of Job - ROI resultScreenshot of Main windowScreenshot of Main window - right clickScreenshot of Output - as table