Arreteq

Enterprise process modeling and architecture platform. Creates, structures, and governs process and architecture knowledge in a purpose-built modeling environment — the source of truth, not a search layer.

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Glean

Enterprise AI search and knowledge management platform. Indexes content from 100+ SaaS applications (Slack, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Salesforce, etc.) and surfaces answers through a unified AI-powered search interface.

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Feature	Arreteq	Glean
Core Positioning	Enterprise process modeling & architecture platform	Enterprise AI search & knowledge retrieval
BPMN 2.0 Process Modeling	✅ Full BPMN 2.0: all task types, events, gateways, sub-processes	❌ No diagramming capability
BPMN Compliance Checking	✅ 9 rule sets, 5 strictness levels, auto-fix, compliance scores	❌
Process Analysis Engine	✅ Critical path, transfer-of-work, rework detection, simulation	❌
Flowchart / Whiteboard	✅ Structured flowchart editor, full whiteboard editor	❌
Value Chain Diagrams	✅	❌
Real-Time Collaboration	✅ CRDT-based real-time co-editing, live cursors, user awareness	❌ Not a collaboration tool
AI Search / Knowledge Retrieval	✅ Semantic search (RAG) across architecture repository	✅ Core strength — indexes 100+ enterprise apps
AI Chat / Assistant	✅ Context-aware assistant with BPMN understanding, compliance checking	✅ Glean Chat (Work AI) — general enterprise knowledge
AI Agents	🔜 Coming Q2 2026	✅ Pre-built and custom agents
Domain-Specific AI Intelligence	✅ BPMN-aware AI — anti-patterns, compliance, optimization	❌ General enterprise knowledge retrieval only
Diagram-from-Document (AI)	✅ PDF/DOCX/RTF/TXT → generate BPMN automatically	❌
Image-to-Diagram (AI)	✅ Upload photo/whiteboard → generate BPMN	❌
Text-to-Diagram (AI)	✅ Describe a process → generate BPMN or flowchart	❌
Enterprise Architecture Repository	✅ 27-type configurable dictionary: applications, capabilities, processes, services	❌ Indexes unstructured content across apps
Governed Taxonomy / Dictionary	✅ Full dictionary system with schemas, governance, audit trail, version history	❌
Application Portfolio Management	🔜 Coming Q2 2026	❌
Business Capability Mapping	🔜 Coming Q2 2026	❌
GRC / Compliance Schema	✅ 45+ field control schema for compliance and risk governance	❌
Change Governance & Workflows	✅ Change requests, approval workflows, task backlog, audit trail	❌
Version History & Diff	✅ Visual diff overlays, side-by-side, named versions, revert	❌
BPMN XML Import/Export	✅ Standards-compliant BPMN 2.0 XML, MIWG validated	❌
Integrations	✅ Webhooks; deep integrations Coming Q2 2026	✅ Native connectors for Slack, Jira, GitHub, Salesforce, and 80+ more
People Directory / Org Chart	❌	✅ Unified people graph with skills and team context
Multi-Tenant Isolation	✅ Strict multi-tenant isolation with role-based tenant management	✅
Access Control	✅ RBAC + ABAC + Fine-grained relationship-based access control	🔶 RBAC + content-level permissions synced from source apps
Audit Logging	✅ SOC 2-ready audit logging	✅
GDPR Compliance	✅ Right to access, erasure, compliant data handling	✅
Dark Mode	✅	✅
Pricing Model	Transparent credit-based + seat model	Per-seat enterprise licensing

Why Arreteq and Glean Serve Different Needs

🏗️ Glean Finds Knowledge — Arreteq Creates It

Glean answers "where is the document that describes our onboarding process?" by indexing and searching across existing content. Arreteq is the system where that process is modeled, validated, analyzed, and governed — the canonical source of truth, not a search layer on top of scattered files.

📐 Structured Models vs. Unstructured Documents

Glean operates on unstructured content — documents, tickets, messages. Arreteq's process models are structured, semantically rich BPMN diagrams where every element has formal meaning, can be validated against compliance rules, and analyzed for critical paths and bottlenecks. A BPMN model in Arreteq is a computable artifact; a Confluence page indexed by Glean is a static document.

🤖 AI That Reasons About Processes, Not Just Text

When you ask Glean about a process, it retrieves and summarizes documents. When you ask Arreteq's AI the same question, it reasons about the actual model — the graph of tasks, gateways, events, and data flows — and surfaces compliance violations, missing error handlers, inefficient routing, and policy mismatches that no document search could find.

📚 Governed Architecture Repository

Arreteq's 27-type dictionary provides a governed, versioned, auditable record of every application, capability, service, vendor, and data entity. These records are linked to process diagrams and governed through approval workflows. Glean has no equivalent — it cannot tell you which applications support a process with version history, access controls, and change approval.

🔒 Compliance and Governance for Regulated Industries

Organizations in financial services, healthcare, and government need more than search — they need audit trails, access governance, compliance validation, and change approval workflows. Arreteq's ReBAC model, 45+ GRC control fields, BPMN compliance checking, and SOC 2-ready audit logging address enterprise compliance requirements that a search platform was not designed to meet.

🔄 Complementary, Not Competing

Enterprises can use both tools purposefully: Glean for broad knowledge discovery across applications, Arreteq as the authoritative source of process and architecture models. Arreteq owns the process layer — the structured, governed, computable representation of how work gets done — that Glean can help surface through search.

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