Positioning

How IGX360 Insights Fits Alongside Camunda, Celonis & SAP Signavio

Camunda, Celonis, and SAP Signavio each own a real, well-earned category, and so do Appian, Pega, and ARIS in the same two markets. None of them ship the authoritative, decision-level definition of how work should be done that an AI agent needs before it can act. That is the layer IGX360 Insights adds, on top of the iGrafx-powered repository IGX has run since 2009.

Three layers, often confused

Mining, orchestration, and articulation answer different questions.

Process mining tells you what happened. Process orchestration runs the flow. Process modelling documents how it is meant to run. Articulation, the layer IGX360 Insights occupies, tells an AI agent what to do. Conflating these is where AI projects go wrong, and it is exactly what the sections below are designed to avoid.

None of the tools below compete with IGX360 Insights directly. Camunda, Appian, and Pega execute flows. Celonis reconstructs what already happened. SAP Signavio and ARIS model and govern process diagrams. Each is strong at what it does. None of them is designed to produce the decision-level definition an AI agent needs before it can act safely, and each assumes that definition already exists somewhere else. It usually does not.

If it does not exist yet, it has to be built on something. IGX360 Insights is built on the iGrafx-powered repository that the IGX360 Platform provisions and manages, so the definition layer sits on a foundation, not on a blank page.

Positioning, per tool · Workflow automation & orchestration

What each tool does well, and what IGX360 Insights adds underneath it.

Process orchestration

Camunda

Strong at

Running and coordinating flows at runtime. Camunda 8 has moved into agentic process orchestration territory.

Falls short on

Camunda is proprietary and engine-locked, and it assumes the process definition underneath it already exists.

IGX360 Insights adds

The open definition Camunda assumes is already there. AWN, the open specification IGX Solutions maintains, is the portable alternative to that lock-in: any orchestrator that can parse YAML and reason about intent can execute an AWN document.

Low-code process automation

Appian

Strong at

Low-code app building and case management that ties workflow steps to the systems and data behind them.

Falls short on

Appian is proprietary and platform-locked. Like Camunda, it executes the process definition it is given and assumes that definition already exists.

IGX360 Insights adds

The open definition Appian assumes is already there. AWN gives you a portable alternative to rebuilding that definition inside a proprietary platform.

Case management & decisioning

Pega

Strong at

Case management and real-time decisioning, combining workflow automation with next-best-action logic.

Falls short on

Pega is proprietary and platform-locked. Its decisioning is only as sound as the process definition configured underneath it, which Pega does not source independently.

IGX360 Insights adds

The decision-level definition of the process itself, open and portable, so Pega's decisioning runs on an accurate model rather than whatever was configured at build time.

Positioning, per tool · Process mining & modelling

The other side of the category: reconstructing the past, and documenting the intended design.

Process mining & intelligence

Celonis

Strong at

Reconstructing what actually happened by extracting event logs from your systems, now branching into AI-agent orchestration too.

Falls short on

Mining is retrospective by design. Train an AI agent on event-log history and it learns the organisation's workarounds, not a sound definition of the work.

IGX360 Insights adds

The decision-level definition of what should happen next, not just a record of what already did.

Process modelling & BPM governance

SAP Signavio

Strong at

BPMN 2.0 documentation, visual modelling, and governance frameworks. A named 2026 Gartner Leader for Process Intelligence Platforms.

Falls short on

Its diagrams are built for human governance and collaboration, not for a structured model an AI agent can consume directly.

IGX360 Insights adds

The same process knowledge expressed as a machine-readable canonical model: 20 object types and 16 relationship types.

Process modelling & enterprise architecture

ARIS

Strong at

BPMN and EPC process modelling, backed by a long-standing enterprise architecture and governance repository.

Falls short on

Like Signavio, its diagrams are built for human governance and documentation, not for a structured model an AI agent can consume directly.

IGX360 Insights adds

The same process knowledge expressed as a machine-readable canonical model, so the repository becomes something an agent can query, not only something a governance team can read.

IGX360 Insights does not replace your process modelling platform (iGrafx, ARIS, Signavio) or your workflow automation engine (Camunda, Appian, Pega). It is the intelligence and governance layer that sits above them.

Questions

Camunda, Celonis, SAP Signavio, Appian, Pega & ARIS: frequently asked questions

Is IGX360 Insights a replacement for Camunda, Celonis, SAP Signavio, Appian, Pega, or ARIS?

No. IGX360 Insights is not an orchestration engine, a mining tool, or a modelling platform, and it does not compete for that budget line. It is the decision-level definition layer those tools assume already exists. Most enterprises run IGX360 Insights alongside one or more of them.

Can IGX360 Insights work alongside our existing workflow or modelling tool?

Yes. IGX360 Insights ingests the process content you already hold, iGrafx first, plus Visio, SOPs, and BPMN/XML, and turns it into a canonical model an agent can act on. It sits underneath the tool you already run, whether that is Camunda, Celonis, SAP Signavio, Appian, Pega, or ARIS, rather than displacing it.

Why does an orchestration, mining, or modelling tool need a definition layer underneath it?

An orchestration or automation engine executes the process definition it is given, and no better than that definition is. A mining tool reports what already happened. A modelling tool documents intent for people to read. None of them produces the authoritative, decision-level account of how work should be done that an AI agent needs before it can act. That account is what IGX360 Insights provides.

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