We performed a comparison between Bizagi vs Visio based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: In this comparison, the reviews for both solutions line up similarly. Visio comes out slightly on top because users report a positive ROI while Bizagi users don’t mention it.
"I like the integration part, and I also like how they use the database, such as the data when they implement all the data side, and how you can easily integrate it with their widgets."
"Process management is easy with Bizagi; validating processes and assigning resources is straightforward."
"The initial setup is super simple."
"The most valuable feature is that it is compatible with Visual Studio and .NET, and we can program it. Its speed is very good, and it is also stable and easy to deploy."
"Bizagi is flexible. I can share things with other consultants because it is the most commonly used software in my community. It has been a great and good resource for us in making sure that we adhere to the process."
"The product allowed users to connect with flow chart elements with ease."
"I like all of the features. I like that you can simulate the processes and add the time standard."
"This is a free solution that allows us to create quality visualizations for our company."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"The solution makes it very easy to make exciting pictures and designs. Everything is very intuitive and simple to figure out."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We can easily add templates to SharePoint for collaboration."
"The fact that it's on-premises allows you to get fantastic speed. It's got a faster response rate, it doesn't lag, and it doesn't have any latency when you're working on it."
"The valuable feature about Visio is it has all the basic tools for creating processes."
"They provide continual enhancements which are always very useful."
"What I like most about the solution is that It's quite easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"It would be helpful if they added some extra features in the next update."
"Also, the tool sometimes feels not so mature when we find random deploy errors from testing to production environment."
"It should provide the ability to create a simple application. It can be used for database modeling diagrams and forms, but it should also support CRUD, that is, create, read, update and delete."
"The solution's interface could be a bit more user-friendly and I would like to see more integrations with other Office products, not just Office 365."
"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."
"Enhancing data generation methods for easier printing and refining the file attachment and user interface to optimize usability."
"I would like to see Visio become some kind of enterprise architecture, which it is not."
"The one particular thing which I would like to see improved is in comparison to other products in the market, and is still lacking in Visio, is publishing on a web application. For example, there is a freeware application business process modeling tool, Bizagi."
"To be able to extract a report for business project management notations would be ideal."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex for me."
"Visio's scalability could be improved. I had a license through my school and it would have been great to be able to collaborate with more people."
"The simulation is an area that requires improvement."
"There are too many features."
"The application could be lighter or it could be faster with documents."
Bizagi is ranked 5th in Business Process Design with 78 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. Bizagi is rated 8.4, while Visio 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 Visio writes "A software for drawing a variety of diagrams which include flowcharts, org charts, building plans, floor plans, data flow diagrams". Bizagi is most compared with Camunda, Bonita, Microsoft Power Apps, ARIS BPA and Appian, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live, SAP Signavio Process Manager and Lucidchart. See our Bizagi vs. Visio report.
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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 Visio is available in Studio and Modeler. If you have a lot of models, it may make sense to import. However, if you have just a handful, Modeler is very easy to use and it's probably faster and safer just to build them in the native Bizagi environment.