BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs Bizagi comparison

Bizagi and BiZZdesign are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bizagi is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4, while BiZZdesign is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.3. Bizagi holds a 10.1% mindshare in BPD, compared to BiZZdesign’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Bizagi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of BiZZdesign users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bizagi and BiZZdesign HoriZZon are two competing products in the business process management software space. While Bizagi is noted for its affordability and ease of use, BiZZdesign HoriZZon tends to have the upper hand with its extensive modeling capabilities and adherence to industry standards, which can be crucial for larger organizations.

Features: Bizagi is recognized for its ease of use, rapid process automation capabilities, and customer-driven improvements. It also provides solid documentation functionalities which benefit small to medium enterprises. On the other hand, BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers robust integration capabilities, compliance with standards like ArchiMate, and a comprehensive suite for strategic portfolio planning, making it highly suitable for enterprise architecture management.

Room for Improvement: Bizagi needs to enhance stability in newer versions and address performance issues associated with larger workflows. Additionally, there's a need for better integration features and more flexible licensing options. BiZZdesign HoriZZon could improve its complex user experience, enhance REST APIs, and better manage costs to become more appealing for budget-conscious organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bizagi supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, although its technical support receives mixed reviews regarding responsiveness. In contrast, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is primarily cloud-based, aligning well with organizations preferring cloud solutions, and is known for effective customer service and quick responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Bizagi's pricing includes a free modeler and offers cost-effective automation, though recent price increases cause some concern for users. Many users appreciate its ROI due to the quick deployment. In comparison, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is more expensive, ideal for organizations that can maximize its extensive features, potentially offsetting higher costs with strategic advantages.

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Categories and Ranking

Bizagi

Ranking in Business Process Design

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (7th), Process Automation (7th), Rapid Application Development Software (15th), Low-Code Development Platforms (11th), No-Code Development Platforms (4th), Process Mining (5th)

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Business Process Design

13th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bizagi is 10.1%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 2.2%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

Enables budget review efficiency with open source advantages and workflow orchestration

Definitely, right now, it is purely open source, and we don't have much community support. If they add a few more capabilities like AIML and DocGen AI, these features would be good. Reporting capabilities can be improved more, and community support should be increased. Otherwise, people cannot onboard that particular technology easily.

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BijoyTalukder

Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

Helps to get a clear overview of our enterprise architecture, especially when dealing with multiple departments

One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs. While the platform offers REST APIs, they have limitations when it comes to retrieving and exporting data. Obtaining detailed information at the individual application or component level, including IDs, costs, and deployment-related data, can be challenging through these APIs. This limitation makes it difficult to smoothly export such granular data. I have raised this issue with the BiZZdesign team, and they expressed interest in addressing it, but I'm not aware of the current status of this improvement effort. Nonetheless, improving the usability and flexibility of the REST APIs for data extraction is an area that could enhance the platform's capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The initial setup is super simple."

"The solution's simulation capabilities are the most valuable aspects."

"I find Bizagi so user friendly. I also think that its modeling abilities are great and it's easy to teach them to new users."

"Business process modelling and simulation."

"Great mapping feature that's easy to use."

"Agility is most valuable because we can develop so much faster than other tools. We can make requirements, develop, and go out to production much faster. So, agility in the software cycle is most valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."

"I like that Bizagi is fully compatible with BPMN 2.0. It also eases the way in which we work with BPMN 2.0 itself, which is a comprehensive and rather complex notation standard."

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"I like the flexibility of the modeling part for standards like ArchiMate and, at the same time, BPMN. It allows us to connect elements from different areas and to have a single repository and a single source of truth. It gives us one place to do analysis throughout the organization."

"Among the valuable features is the ability to document standards. For example, we have mandatory operating standards that need to be followed by every application and every architecture. We use things like table charts and pie charts for documenting the costs incurred across the systems. All of these are good features."

"The most valuable features are the application, portfolio, data, architectures, and modeling things."

"I used BiZZdesign HoriZZon at two organizations. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I used it with a small team for architectural modeling of the student record system. We modeled teams, process objects, and their interactions with applications. We also used it to model a gradual rollout with plateaus showing migration over time. At the BBC, I used it to model software services for publishing content online. I showed key model views to senior stakeholders using Horizon, allowing them to modify and score applications and services."

"This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool."

"The most valuable features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon, from my experience, include its out-of-the-box connectors, such as integration with ServiceNow, Excel, and SQL databases, making data repository management more efficient."

"One of the main advantages of this solution is that they have representation in the Open Group Forum, which means that any changes in ArchiMate are immediately implemented in BiZZdesign."

"The powerful editing function in teamwork project-based, common or shared modeling, based on a powerful repository and knowledge sharing in a portal are the most valuable features. These are the most important features for me. I can add the integration of individual modeling notations like Archimate plus BPMN and DMN, and so on. We travel from one location to another and the tool allows us to keep track."

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Cons

"Framework approach, which extends to reusability in tools, like Pega, for deployment management could be improved."

"Also, the tool sometimes feels not so mature when we find random deploy errors from testing to production environment."

"I would like to see the automation process included in the next release."

"Bizagi doesn't have integrations with other solutions, such as ERP systems. In the industry and your company, you have a lot of systems with which you need to integrate, but Bizagi doesn't have such integrations, which makes it very difficult. Its scalability can also be improved. It is good for a startup, but when you need something more complex, it is not good."

"It would be helpful if they added some extra features in the next update."

"Enhancing data generation methods for easier printing and refining the file attachment and user interface to optimize usability."

"I think that they could improve their update process. Some of the process mining techniques could be added to Bizagi. I think that they can improve their simulation abilities to include more elements of the BPMN."

"I would like to see more in terms of analytics and better reporting."

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"It should be more open to integrating with other existing tools. Although there has been progress in the past."

"I have seen table charts where, if the chart is a little too big, it does not fit in HoriZZon and it is not at all visible... There have been several times where we could not publish a chart properly and we had to break the chart into small tables and create multiple artifacts, creating a complete mess. This should be seriously taken up by BiZZdesign because there is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of usability. It's not at all good, unfortunately."

"In HoriZZon, there are different matrices. In some of the cases, there is an option to aggregate them, but in other cases, we have not done this, e.g., to see the proper costs. For example, if I have 10 different matrices, then I need to create an aggregate view out of those 10 matrices somewhere. That is where we have been struggling a bit. We have a counterpart from the HoriZZon product team with whom we have bi-weekly discussions. We have suggested to him that this can be improved."

"It lacks capabilities with regard to infrastructure modeling."

"We tested it, and we had support from BiZZdesign, including patches, but it just didn't do what we wanted."

"The automatic data collection and interface need improvement."

"The users of BiZZdesign should be able to enter their data or make modeling changes via HoriZZon."

"There's room for improvement. When I finished using it over a year ago, I discussed implementing C4 notation with BiZZdesign HoriZZon.They've likely done this now, but I haven't seen it. Setting up interactive views for stakeholders to score services was a bit difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"From what I know of the market, I think Bizagi is a cheap solution for process engineering. Out of the solutions I've tried, from cheapest to most expensive, would be Vizor, Bizagi, Signavio, and then Siemens. I used a version of Bizagi that my university provided for free, so I have never paid for a license."

"The Bizagi modeler can be downloaded free of charge."

"Pricing is good value for money."

"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."

"It is only necessary to pay for licenses when ready to deploy applications to production."

"Make sure that your requirements are explicitly defined from the outset. This will help you choose the right setup and licensing for your needs."

"We use the free version of the solution because the price is in dollars, making it expensive for where we are in Brazil."

"The product must improve its cost."

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"The price is reasonable."

"[The] Orbus... pricing model was based on every single functionality having a price. The pricing was comparable but if we wanted to scale, it would have ended up being a lot more expensive. BiZZdesign gave us one price with all of the functionality, and we could scale as much as we needed."

"We were customers and bought licenses from them. We used their remote instance initially but upgraded to the on-device version due to lag. For pricing, we paid about 2200 pounds a year per seat for the client installation at an educational rate. I'm not sure about commercial rates. I managed to get a free copy at BBC since it was for evaluation purposes."

"First and foremost within the scope of improvement for the solution would be the cost. It's very costly..."

"The pricing model is slightly on the high side and could be more competitive for long-term partnerships."

"If one is very cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a seven out of ten."

"In terms of this particular product usage, my clients currently only use per-user licenses."

"I haven't found any issues with the scalability and licensing parts that are access-related."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

34%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How easy is it to migrate process flow charts (modeled using tools like Visio) into Bizagi?

I have been using Bizagi with a major project for a state government agency for about four years now. It is pretty straightforward to load in files that are BPMN 2.0 compliant. The option to load V...

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What do you like most about Bizagi?

The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bizagi?

My company uses the free version of the product. In our company, we are doing documentation and modeling. When we reach that point of automating the processes, then maybe we shall acquire the paid ...

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What do you like most about BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool.

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What needs improvement with BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

The ability to generate charts and deal with a use case involving Kibana was quite difficult. We don't use the chart functionality much, and I think that is quite problematic at the moment. We have...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

I use the solution in my company for all sorts of things, like enterprise and solution architecture. As part of our design process, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is used for road mapping. We also use it for ...

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Overview

Bizagi’s industry-leading low-code process automation platform connects people, applications, robots, and information. As the most business-friendly and flexible solution on the market, Bizagi enables true collaboration between business and IT, delivering faster adoption and success. Fuelled by a community of 1 million users, Bizagi powers over 1,000 organizations worldwide including Adidas, BAE Systems, and Old Mutual. For more information visit www.bizagi.com

Bizagi

Make smarter decisions and optimize outcomes by unifying all your strategy, capabilities, operating models and change portfolios in a single platform.

With all the data about your business in one place you can see the big picture and make properly informed strategic decisions to drive growth. Bizzdesign Horizzon brings together strategy, IT architecture, operating models, data, capabilities, change portfolios and ideas into a single, intuitive collaborative business design platform. Real-time visibility of key metrics and trends allows you to take action more quickly. Accelerating the speed and accuracy of your operations now – and into the future.

Core Platform Capabilities:

Multi-discipline collaboration
Data Integration
Advanced analytics
Models and Roadmaps
Governance & Security
Business Insight Graph

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Sample Customers

adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.

T-Mobile, Shell, HSBC, Erasmus University, VIVAT Insurance

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