ARIS vs SAP BPM | TrustRadius

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 is well suited when we need to integrate business processes with SAP ERP and SAP CRM - the solution can be integrated with business rules/procedures defined in SAP ERP/CRM and NetWeaver can be used to monitor the rules and flag off exceptions. When there are multiple workflows running, it tends to slow down running of these processes. Also, it entirely depends on SAP portal for it to run efficiently.

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Shiv Shivakumar

Acquisitions Leader

AbbottComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ARIS

SAP BPM

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

ARIS

SAP BPM

Process designer

Process simulation

Business rules engine

SOA support

Process player

Support for modeling languages

Form builder

Model execution

ARIS

SAP BPM

Social collaboration tools

ARIS

SAP BPM

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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Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail.
Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules.
A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable.

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Analyst in Sales

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 10,001+ 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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Live readings would be nice.
Easier to maneuver
Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke

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Stephanie Chapman

Team Leader

American Standard BrandsConsumer Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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SAP BPM 7.0

Based on 1 answer

As a big fan of SAP in general, the BPM solution fits right in with all the other things SAP does well, and does it with incredible efficiency

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Verified User

Analyst in Sales

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 10,001+ 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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SAP BPM 5.0

Based on 2 answers

We have our own tech support for systems, I would say they probably could use more training on it, I don't really think it's anything regarding the SAP system, but more the knowledge they have on the system itself. It seems to take longer for them to fix any issues we may come across.

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Stephanie Chapman

Team Leader

American Standard BrandsConsumer 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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I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running.

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Shiv Shivakumar

Acquisitions Leader

AbbottComputer Software, 1001-5000 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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Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow

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Shiv Shivakumar

Acquisitions Leader

AbbottComputer Software, 1001-5000 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

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAP BPM Editions & Modules

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Rating Summary

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SAP BPM

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SAP BPM

Likelihood to Recommend

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SAP BPM

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

SAP BPM

Cons

ARIS

SAP BPM

Likelihood to Renew

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SAP BPM

Usability

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SAP BPM

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SAP BPM

Alternatives Considered

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SAP BPM

Return on Investment

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SAP BPM

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ARIS

SAP BPM

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?

SAP BPM Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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