ARIS vs Blueworks Live

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Consultant in Professional Services

Management Consulting Company, 10,001+ employees

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It's hard to recommend a tool that does not follow the universal industry standard (BPMN2). Like Visio, it looks and feels like the standard is respected (shapes, naming convention, etc.) but Blueworks Live does not in fact follow any of it. It is a good tool for any company that is primarily looking at drawing diagrams (e.g., export them as images), as opposed to building live processes.

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Team Lead in Professional Services

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Process designer

Process simulation

Business rules engine

SOA support

Process player

Support for modeling languages

Form builder

Model execution

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Social collaboration tools

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Content management

Pros

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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Consultant in Professional Services

Management Consulting Company, 10,001+ employees

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This tool is a very easy way for capturing all types of business processes that can potentially start with the discovery map.
The product has a very user-friendly interface that enables business users to utilize its full features in an easy way.
The system always shows some visual representation of information that makes it easy to understand.

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Omer Yaqoob

Network Development Associate

Container xChangeInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Installation of ARIS to users
Management of user/architect accounts

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Professional in Research & Development

Consumer Electronics Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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The playback feature can be a little buggy at times and could use some more speed as well.
It can be a little hard to navigate the many many menus and sub-menus
The search/filter feature could use some fine-tuning. It doesn’t always return the expected results

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Manager in Marketing

Real Estate Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

ARIS 7.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Kimaya Ghag

Senior Consultant

CapgeminiInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

ARIS 8.0

Based on 4 answers

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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Professional in Research & Development

Consumer Electronics Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Blueworks Live 8.2

Based on 6 answers

I have gotten great response for the very few times I needed support.

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Brian Durr

Business Advisor

ProlificsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Analyst in Information Technology

Medical Device Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Blueworks is relatively simple and much easier to use and at a lower cost compared to ARIS. However, Blueworks does not support modeling like risk universe, org charts, etc. like in ARIS. Also, advanced simulation is not possible in Blueworks unlike in ARIS. The number of BPMN symbols in Blueworks is limited.

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Consultant in Other

Management Consulting Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

High cost tool
Advanced process modeling and analysis tool
Flexibility to design multiple models

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Consultant in Professional Services

Management Consulting Company, 10,001+ employees

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We spend less time searching through notes and messages trying to figure out which process we liked most, which worked best, etc
We can view processes and simulated processes in real time
It easy to share and collaborate with other team members and get their feedback

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Manager in Marketing

Real Estate Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

ARIS Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

ARIS Enterprise	contact us

none

SaaS Edition

ARIS Elements	$100¹
ARIS Advanced	$200¹
ARIS Enterprise	contact us

designer
none

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Blueworks Live Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

ARIS

Blueworks Live

ARIS

Blueworks Live

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Likelihood to Recommend

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Feature Rating Comparison

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Process designer

Process simulation

Business rules engine

SOA support

Process player

Support for modeling languages

Form builder

Model execution

Social collaboration tools

Content management

Pros

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Cons

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Usability

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Support Rating

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Alternatives Considered

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Return on Investment

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Screenshots

ARIS

Blueworks Live

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

ARIS Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Blueworks Live Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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