ARIS vs. Onspring

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.

As an financial and consulting working professional we had many challenges related to being compliant with other financial and governmental regulations and standard. For that we need so many different process, business units and other interested parties to come on same table and work on every single control to get compliant with those regulations. In this case we have manage so many risks and work on timely remediation. Onspring worked well in this.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Findings
• Reporting
• Exceptions
• Policies
• Standard

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Integration with other tools
• Risk Register management
• Asset and Process Management

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

RSA Archer is also great tool but why I choose Onspring is because it is user friendly and easy UI on the other hand Archer is so lethal and complex system which sometimes lack behind in term performance and scalability.

Incentivized

• Documentation of processes made it possible for anyone to see who does what, how and using what systems.
• Dependency on specific people is eliminated.

Incentivized

• Positive - Risk Management
• Positive - Findings Management
• Negative - Integration issue with some of tools

Incentivized