We performed a comparison between Bizagi, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Sparx Systems and others in Business Process Design."I very much like the reusable rules and forms, and the way Bizagi controls the process flow. I also like the document generating system to generate PDFs and then .doc files with information gathered from a flow. At the end of a process, you can generate a document that can be printed."
"The user interface is pretty good."
"The interface, design, and accessible user manuals to help get started using the solution are valuable features in Bizagi."
"The product enables the users to automate the processes and provides a good user experience."
"The approval process is simple."
"It can be useful as a tool to improve your communications and the control of your processes. For example, when you have to explain a process to seven or eight stakeholders who think differently as well as have different experiences in different functional departments, it is not easy. Sometimes you are using a lot of technical terms, and other times, you are dealing with management terminology. The visual representation helps you create a better alignment and understanding for different roles and stakeholders of your workforce."
"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."
"The free online Help and E-Learning is very strong."
"The profiles and ready-made templates are an extremely helpful feature. This is one of the biggest features that I find very useful in Sparx."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"We have found the stability to be very reliable."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"There are a lot of features in Enterprise Architect. It allows us to take on a lot of tasks."
"It keeps track of its connections as you move things around."
"It works really well for flowcharting, it can label."
"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 initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Good interface and good tool configuration."
"The interface of the solution is very good. It's easy to navigate."
"The solution is finely stable."
"What I like about it is that the templates are easily findable and usable, and they are usually created for other software packages. It seems to be pretty much widely adopted in the industry."
"Bizagi allows for automation, but it's very complicated."
"I would like to see the automation process included in the next release."
"The technical support is not fast enough and should be improved."
"Bizagi's UI should include shorter steps for documenting controls, documenting properties, changing some attributes in the object, and adding additional text."
"They should improve the migration process between major versions, from version 9 to 10, we had to redo our implementation."
"The tool is expensive and it should improve its pricing."
"I would like to see a facility for building a simple CRUD application. In Bizagi, you can use database modeling, diagrams, forms, etc., but in some circumstances I need CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) functionalities which are not there yet."
"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."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"I have found the solution is lacking options. The general usability needs improvement and more compliance to CML definitions."
"The fact that you can do a lot yourself is a plus point, but it also becomes a challenge because you need an understanding of the programming languages to get things to work. It becomes challenging for those who are not very good at programming. You have standard reports, but if you want to make your own reports, you have to program it. Similarly, if you want validations rules, you have to take care of them yourself."
"The integration could be improved."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
"Its usability needs to be improved. For non-technical users, it is a little difficult to understand how Enterprise Architect works. Users who are not engineers find it difficult to understand how this tool works. This is something they need to work on. They can develop a BPM model to simulate processes."
"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."
"Visio can be more user-friendly."
"The auto-routing feature could be better."
"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."
"I would like to be able to present diagrams in multiple ways, such as a Swimlane diagram."
"Visio is not as scalable as other tools due to the proprietary restriction. You cannot customize it or scale it up like the way you do with Trello or Jira. Microsoft places restrictions on things that you can do with Visio."
"There could be better integration between Visio and Word, especially when it comes to importing graphics from the one to the other."
"The user interface could be more robust."
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