TrustAppian
Updated March 18, 2019

TrustAppian

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Appian

I have not seen Appian Support in action.
We customize Appian to support various business processes in the organization. There are multiple business units that currently use it.
  • It's easy to configure/customize.
  • It provides a consistent workflow across multiple pages/functions.
  • It's designer interface allows for quick troubleshooting.
  • There are places that come out-of-the-box that we can't customize, especially the user profile which sometimes, depending on the country/region privacy requirements, we need to be able to modify.
  • There are places where brute force or hard coding is necessary
  • Positive: It helped our business partners centralize transactions and therefore allow for a single source of reporting data
The error messages need to be improved; or at least there should be an interface to customize the error messages easily.
Not sure what this is, actually. But this is the name of the module we're doing.
Well suited: Process workflows, requesting for approvals, submitting requests.
Not appropriate: Huge, complex business processes that would involve multiple users across a single transaction.

Appian Feature Ratings

Visual Modeling
7
Drag-and-drop Interfaces
Not Rated
Platform Security
Not Rated
Platform User Management
7
Reusability
8
Platform Scalability
8

Using Appian

500 - Legal and Compliance
Both technical and analytical.
  • Matter submission
  • Workflow management
  • Reporting
  • We were able to integrate Appian with various legacy applications
  • It's easy to troubleshoot or override a process
  • Reporting and integration with PowerBI / more powerful reporting tools
  • Process automation like integration with MS Flow

Evaluating Appian and Competitors

  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Third-party Reviews
I won't; but others might have an opinion about the price.

Using Appian

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Requires technical support
Lots to learn
  • Workflow management and the ability to change the workflow easily
  • Troubleshooting and restarting a process
  • User management
  • Troubleshooting tiny quirks e.g. we have not gotten a resolution for freezing multi-select drop down fields as well as on an issue related to a user getting logged out.
Yes - It's ok as far as I've seen it; but I haven't fully used it.