We performed a comparison between Bizagi and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product allowed users to connect with flow chart elements with ease."
"The ability to write our own code inside each activity is beneficial. Sometimes we need to create functionality that doesn't come out of the box, and this allows us to do that."
"The solution's simulation capabilities are the most valuable aspects."
"It automates a completely manual, complicated process."
"The amount of control that this solution provides is great."
"Great mapping feature that's easy to use."
"The API is pretty straightforward."
"The user interface is pretty good."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"Its most valuable feature is the Zachman Framework."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"It's easy to search within the solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has led some teams to do better code reviews - to be less focussed on coding conventions (syntax) and more focussed on the semantics because of the abstraction level clear design affords."
"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."
"Bizagi has been aggressively adding features to maintain its market-leading position, however, in some cases, this has impacted the stability of certain product builds."
"Cloud support for their process mapping tool could be better. To map all your processes in any way and call your data, you need to download their on-premise setup or their desktop setup. Cloud support for process mapping is limited, and they should work on that."
"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 of the features which could be improved is machine learning. Even though this product has been working on this topic, we can see that it still requires improvement."
"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."
"I would like to see more in terms of analytics and better reporting."
"The tool is expensive and it should improve its pricing."
"The solution's interface could be more straightforward."
"In general, we now have a problem with Sparx Enterprise Architect because many analysts think it's too complicated to use in a giant environment."
"One room for improvement in Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is that it's not very friendly. Another room for improvement in the tool is that it doesn't enable you to import the metadata from a database very easily, so reverse engineering of a database was very difficult. Its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement."
"In a future release, they should improve portfolio planning."
"The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to."
"It would be great if we could decrease the use of different parts of the Toolbox."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"What should be improved are the integration capabilities of the solution with Bizagi."
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Bizagi is ranked 5th in Business Process Design with 78 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. Bizagi is rated 8.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. 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 Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "Easy to set up and had no issues with stability, but it's not a very friendly tool, and its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement". Bizagi is most compared with Camunda, Visio, Bonita, ARIS BPA and OutSystems, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and Lucidchart. See our Bizagi vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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