We performed a comparison between Bizagi and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, BMC and others in Process Automation."BPMN 2.0 compliance, while you model the processes, the system can detect your notation errors."
"It has an easy to use interface which final users accepted with much more enthusiasm than our ERP (SAP)."
"The product allowed users to connect with flow chart elements with ease."
"I like the business process management engine. It's very detailed, and you can probably map any of the corporate workflow processes you come across in it compared to some of the other solutions out there. I can probably say that it has very good support to work in tandem with other RP solutions in the market. The software is still very user-friendly and integral, and they have pretty good online resources. The automation feature is pretty good, so is the integration feature."
"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."
"The approval process is simple."
"Your team can work on it having basic training about databases and BPM modeling."
"Business process modelling and simulation."
"I do a data-centric design, so for me, the data analysis and design tools are the most valuable features."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"It allows us to have proper documentation in terms of the databases."
"SAP PowerDesigner is fairly stable."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"In PowerDesigner, I primarily use BPM and modeling standards. I find it beneficial for process analysis, although I use data modeling to a lesser extent."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"Bizagi could be improved by more automation and machine learning. Now that I'm learning more about data analyzers, I'm realizing that many people have problems with data and how to understand them."
"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."
"In business process mapping, you have pools and dark pools. I don't see that Bizagi differentiates between a regular pool and a dark pool."
"One part of the university has changed its regular desktops to Linux. This is a weak point because Bizagi doesn't run on Linux. I would like the opportunity to run the software inside of Linux."
"Bizagi's UI should include shorter steps for documenting controls, documenting properties, changing some attributes in the object, and adding additional text."
"It works slowly on the cloud, sometimes."
"The product used to have a simulation feature, which I had used quite often. However, it's since been discontinued. It might have originally been a paid feature. It would be nice if they could bring it back and offer it for free."
"One thing that I don't like very much is related to integration: we have to develop some connectors... I would need a connector that connects to a REST service and that uses client ID in secret... They provide the means to develop a connector and use it, but they should implement this because REST services are among the most used protocols for web services."
"You have the possibility to complete a connection for abbreviations if you are creating columns or names of the tables. In the Citrix environment, this has been lagging to the point where the PowerDesigner was not usable."
"Technical support could be better and more human."
"There should be a better usage of current hardware including multicore CPUs, higher resolutions, and multiple displays."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
"Connectivity can be improved because it's not very good."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"The tool lags in the area of customer service."
Bizagi is ranked 6th in Process Automation with 78 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. Bizagi is rated 8.4, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Bizagi writes "A flexible, customizable solution that reduced time to market, but the UI and customer support could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". Bizagi is most compared with Camunda, Visio, Bonita, ARIS BPA and Microsoft Power Apps, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and LeanIX.
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