Bizagi Reviews

I was introduced to Bizagi, and then someone else mentioned Microsoft Visio. I wanted to try and understand the differences between Bizagi and Microsoft Visio. I wanted to know which would be best suited for my use. I've tried to use Visio, but I haven't because of some issues, like monthly subscriptions.

I like the ease of use and the fact that you can download and use their free version, which is unlimited. However, while it's unlimited use, some features aren't available. 

It can actually be very good for training or education before someone really gets into serious work. They can decide whether to purchase or subscribe after using it. I realized that it's very important to me.

The free version could be better. Some of the templates and all the functionalities aren't available in the free version. I've been trying to check some maps, for example, organizational maps or a model on organization hierarchy. Apparently, there seems to be no template. You have to create your own. I am not sure if there are templates, but I've not really seen any. I think that there's room for improvement. 

They can also improve their documentation, more precisely, their coding of the maps. It has a unique way of making sub-processes, but I think the other school of thought is that if you have a process and within the process, you have a sub-process. They should improve how you code to link a sub-process within a process. 

I think this coding is important. If you want to go beyond visual documentation to even narration, or if you want to include narration and map it onto the visual maps, you should be able to do it. 

I've been using Bizagi for barely one month.

I'm trying the free unlimited version with unlimited use. But you have to pay to add some features.

I would advise potential users that they must understand Business Process Analysis and Business Process Mapping, or rather Process Mapping, before using it. If you don't understand that, you might not find it useful or meaningful. If you do understand Business Process Mapping, then you'll find Bizagi very useful.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Bizagi a 9.

We used it for the modeling part and some testing functionalities. We didn't use the licensed versions where you could go into automatization. So, we're more or less on the modeling level. We have used different versions of this solution.

The documentation capabilities are very good. Very structured documents and process versions are valuable features, and being able to communicate that to our customers is also a very good feature. 

It has a good balance between the effort and the result. So, you don't need to be too detailed. You can document while you are modeling, which is a very good feature.

Its performance needs to be improved. The main thing is that it is limited, especially in terms of the response times. When the processes become a bit large, it is very awkward to work with the Bizagi modeler.

When you have already modeled but start to rearrange, it is quite a bit of an effort to change the stuff. When you rearrange lanes or have new structures, it goes rather squiggly up and down and so on, which could be improved. The visual outputs of the DIREPs of the process models are pixelated and have a bad image quality. It is a PNG or JPEG, and you cannot export it as a PDF. When you have rather large processes, you should be able to arrange them hierarchically. Currently, it is not supported. If you use sub-processes and inflate a process, suddenly the arrangement is totally different, and although you know the process, you have to look where is it now. You need a good understanding of the levels of your processes before you start in Bizagi.

It can have automatic support for optimal presentation. In BPM, you should have it from the top left to the bottom right. However, in most cases, people don't know how they should arrange it. Therefore, it would be nice to have a suggestion system for different arrangements to be able to better present the process.

I have been using this solution for two years.

We are part of a larger company, and they meanwhile decided on FireStart, but they definitely want to go into the automatization of modeling and optimization. I wasn't involved in the pricing stuff, and I haven't worked too much on an operational level here, but all things I experienced with that product are very nice. The documentation and modeling are a little more complex, but the features are far richer than Bizagi. It is also direct, so you also have to pay for the modeler. I found it superior to Bizagi.

We didn't use the licensed versions where you could exactly go into automatization. However, we looked at the pricing in the beginning, and the only thing that I remember is that it was too expensive for the things we were using because our clients would also have to license the product. One client said that it was too expensive for the benefit they get out of it.

I would advise others to not make the processes too large because of the performance issues. If you have small processes, it is perfect. Before you start in Bizagi, you need a good understanding of the levels of your processes because when you have already modeled and start to rearrange, it is quite a bit of an effort to change the stuff. So, take some more time initially in organizing the processes.

I would rate Bizagi a seven out of ten.

The amount of control that this solution provides is great.

Automation could be better. Bizagi allows for automation, but it's very complicated.

Sometimes we experience issues related to translation. The first version we used was translated into Spanish, but the upgrade that we installed was not translated, which caused us some problems. 

I have used this solution for a few years.

We haven't experienced any scalability or stability related issues. 

We used to use Blueworks, from IBM. Bizagi is not as extensive as Blueworks, but it's enough for our company. Bizagi is easy to use, but Blueworks offers more freedom, allowing you to develop more. 

Blueworks is more expensive, but it has more functionality. Exporting and processing client uploads is much easier using Blueworks. 

We use the free version, so yes, we are very satisfied with the price. If you want more complicated software, you're going to have to pay for it. 

I would recommend this solution to any colleagues. On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of nine.

We use this solution for various mid-market clients in the Manufacturing and Services domains. In particular:

• Enterprise Process Architecture: From Value Chain Model to detailed BPMN.
• Process orchestration: Integrate processes with various technology components to drive the digitization of processes involving both humans and technology.

We have been modeling the business from value chain model to detailed BPMN 2.0 in some departments. 

• Bizagi Studio: Good for process orchestration (simple or complex) or Business automation with SIMPLE business rules. 
• Bizagi Portal: The GUI is so-so, but the process monitoring and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) are there, already built.

The most valuable feature for us is the Bizagi Modeler. It provides for easy to use modeling, respecting FULLY the BPMN 2.0 standard. Objects are fully reused (import/integration) with Bizagi Studio.

The free online Help and E-Learning is very strong. It is very complete and well done!!

This solution is very easy to use and is very stable. 

Overall, this is a very good tool to drive the global Process Architecture of a company.

Some of the weaknesses of this solution are:

• In the Bizagi Studio, the scripting and debugging tool is VERY weak.
• It is difficult to drive ROI on types of processes involving complex business rules.
• In our Best practices, we are now virtualizing almost all of the tables instead of using Bizagi MS-SQL Master files. This is because it is impossible to get control over Bizagi Master or Parameter tables.
• All of the complex components are done using outside technologies (.NET or other) that are integrated into the BPM using service tasks (Rest/Soap).
• There is lots of instability with V 11.1. We are suspecting configuration management problems on the Bizagi side.

This is a very stable solution, and we have had no bugs in the past four years.

The tool helps to improve business processes and have better KPIs. Also, it is easy to use. Our developers find it easy to learn. 

The tool is expensive and it should improve its pricing. 

I have been using the solution for more than ten years. 

I would rate the product's stability a nine out of ten.

I would rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten. 

Our experience with the tool's tech support is good. 

The solution's setup is easy. 

We have seen good returns with the product's use. 

I would rate the product a nine out of ten. 

Our primary need and use for this solution is in designing sales, order handling and support processes for BPM.

Bizagi has improved our ability to provide services. We are developing some BPM (Business Process Management) solutions on top of the Camunda Engine. I am currently configuring features that we need to develop in order to add other functionality that people need in order to be attracted to our platform. After we finish the platform we plan to add other business customers that we already have. We want to launch our developed product and provide it as a service.

My favorite part about Bizagi is that I think it has nice UI. It is a comfortable environment for users.

As I worked with the desktop version of the Bizagi modeler, I was not so comfortable. I prefer the web version because it's more mobile. So for my preferences, I wanted to add a BPMN notations extension. I couldn't do that with Bizagi. I wanted to add some notations for orders, invoices and allow adding some configuration to those notations. That is our vision for our platform. As it is a feature that we will definitely be adding to our platform that we are developing, I would rather see it in the product rather than creating it as a workaround.

As a developer, I would like to see some features and functionality that would allow us to add-in features to a marketplace or community. For example, BPM'Online has a marketplace. You can go get add-ons and plugins to process reports and buy or download functionality and put it on the BPM'Online and do business sharing of any profit with products for sale. In the market, 80% goes to the developer and 20% goes to BPM'Online. It is a model that grows the community and functionality.

So I would also recommend having a marketplace similar to BPM'Online to be able to buy or build third-party functionality and community.

It was not necessary to use the company's technical support while deploying or during use.

We used several solutions over a short period of time for evaluations.

The initial setup for the desktop version was fairly straightforward.

I did the installation by myself without help from any third-party assistance.

I used the trial version and I'm searching for the pricing. We'd be happy to carry the product because it does what we need and are already developing for it.

We considered several solutions before choosing. I explored products to gain experience with BPM platforms using products like BPM'Online, Camunda, Activiti, Microsoft CRM, and Salesforce for testing. I searched for similar solutions and tested all of them. The two that seemed most interesting for what we planned were Caramunda and Bizagi.

Bizagi is an enterprise application out of the box. Camunda is a platform that is better used to build some other applications on top of it. That is its real strength. Camunda has some basic features. Its UI is good and it has a plugin system. You can just buy some plugins for use and double up some plugins on top of it. The basic functionality is there and ready to use. The functionality in Camunda is very basic. You get a basic task list, basic modeler, and basic reports. It does not have a lot of extra features but it is simple to use and easy to learn. Bizagi has a learning curve. It has more features and more native functionality, but the learning curve is much longer than Camunda.

On a scale from one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate this as an eight. I think it is a good product but I am not so much of an expert having used it for only a short time. There may be features it is missing that I don't even know if I want or need, and yet that other products and solutions may already have those features.

Agility, reverse engineering, customized portal web, help desk and user guides, easy deployment, simple to modify.

In the past, we took from 1-3 days for a vacation request for the whole process, and now it's for 2 hours.

Agriculture, Industry.

Since October 2011.

Yes, sometimes when we execute EXPRESSIONS Xpath, we don't always get the same result.

No.

9 out of 10.

Yes, we used Bonita Soft, Oracle BPM Suite, W4 Business First ,

We switched between several solutions because we made a benchmarking between BPM solutions.

The installation was so easy, of course with the help throw the Forum or The GUIDES offered with the softwares.

For the prices, we didn't try a negotiations about licensing or pricing, but if i can say a word about this, I find Bizagi prices to be well thought out.

As I answered previously, we made a large benchmarking between several BPM solutions and personally, Bizagi is far well ranked in this domain.

My advice to any experience of implementation of the solution is to study at first our the business and start by modeling processes and try to copy the reel work to a modeling methodology without trying to develop or automate processes, and after a successful step in modeling, it will be easy to go to data modeling and continue the others steps until implementation.

• Easy and quick to automate processes
• Short learning curve

We managed, in less than one year, to automate all administrative, financial and operational processes of our company, which operates in the technology consulting business, with a team of two professionals.

The preparation of reports within the business intelligence facilities.

I've used it for four years.

There were only a few.

It needs improvement to the speed with which they respond.

It needs improvement to the speed with which they respond.

We did, and we switched due to the ease of implementation and technical learning.

It was both straightforward and complex.

We implemented with in-house staff who became experts in the solution. We are now offering design services to our clients, using Bizagi BPM Suite, coupled with our consulting BPM.

• On the sale of licenses: 20%
• On consulting services generated from product use: 100%

The initial cost was zero. For maintenance, approximately $3,000/year.

• Intalio
• Oracle
• AuraPortal
• Bonita
• IBM

It is a beautifully finished product and provides an excellent cost-benefit. It solves almost all process automation needs. We are delighted with Bizagi BPM Suite and chose to act exclusively with this solution in our consulting business and BPM projects. We have achieved a great receptivity of the product our customers, and became business partners after our implementation experience and training of a in-house technical team.

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