Apache Airflow vs Bizagi comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Apache Airflow
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Bizagi
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
79
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (4th), Process Automation (6th), Rapid Application Development Software (13th), Low-Code Development Platforms (10th), No-Code Development Platforms (5th), Process Mining (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Apache Airflow is 6.9%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bizagi is 6.6%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM)
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
Business Process Design
9.6%
Process Automation
10.2%
 

Featured Reviews

ManojKumar43 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 22, 2024
A solution for orchestrating EMR clusters with plug-and-play UI
Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details. All logs are readily accessible within the interface itself. Examining the logs lets you discern which steps and processes are being executed. You don't have to configure SMTP for everything. You need to configure email settings, such as email on error, failure, or alert access. With Apache Airflow, you can send emails with just a few lines of code. You don't have to write extensive code to configure SMTP; all those configurations can be accomplished within a few lines of code. I managed a complex workflow for a finance application project. They use Apache Airflow to orchestrate processes, such as retrieving data from SFTP and landing it into S3. From S3, they trigger Glue jobs based on certain conditions. Additionally, they use the Glue catalog in Glusoft for data management, all orchestrated using Airflow. Furthermore, various logics are written in Airflow DAGs to handle scenarios like security mismatches. For instance, files are sent accordingly if there's a missing security. Apache Airflow triggers a set of tasks based on DAGs. If you have multiple tags, such as raw, transform, and ready layers, instead of manually triggering each DAGs. In that case, you can integrate them to trigger one, automatically triggering the others. Also, you can put conditions.
Jethro Dennis - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 28, 2022
Helps us bring processes to life and clarify them for stakeholders
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. Another area for improvement would be printing. It's just a small nuance to me, but if I've drawn a process that would fit on an 11 by 17 ledger page, but I really want it on a letter-size page, it doesn't show me how to shrink it down. Even if I say, "Go down to one page," it still shows me that I've got two pages. I don't know if it's a bug or if I might need more training. Where I worked before I could plot things. Now, I can only work with ledger, as large as eight and a half by 14. Sometimes, when you draw a business process, it doesn't really fit on a legal or letter-size page. But it should at least allow me to shrink it enough to fit on a letter-size page. If they had a little bit more training on printing and presentation, that would be good.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"To increase efficiency, it's quite simple to add dbt tasks to an Apache Airflow pipeline or orchestration file. With the tool, you can specify dependencies."
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"Apache Airflow is in Python language, making it easy to use and learn."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"The product is stable."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"It has an easy to use interface which final users accepted with much more enthusiasm than our ERP (SAP)."
"The solution offers a free version of their product."
"One of the features I like is that when drawing any task, when putting a task on the process model canvas, I can simply click on it and see the other task icons for that task. It's just one quick, simple, straightforward connectivity from task to task."
"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."
"With the appropriate governance framework, properly trained business analysts can be empowered to design and build business solutions themselves."
"Very, very stable."
"Process management is easy with Bizagi; validating processes and assigning resources is straightforward."
"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."
 

Cons

"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"Bizagi allows for automation, but it's very complicated."
"Its price can be improved. The price is high for the application as well as for maintaining and developing applications. When you develop, for example, a BPM, you need to pay a lot for Bizagi."
"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 don't know if it's a problem with my operating system or a Bizagi problem, but many times I see that when I try to connect different activities, they show up as not connected."
"Also, the tool sometimes feels not so mature when we find random deploy errors from testing to production environment."
"I would like to see simulation as a free feature again. In version 3.3 it was free, but in 4.0 it isn't."
"The solution needs to make it easier to use RPA products on it. They may need an RPA specific interface. It would be better than having to make an RPA tool to use for viewing. Most of our work is about making RPA tools with the Bizagi, not using Bizagi itself."
"The solution is a bit heavy on resources and has slowed down my computer."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Apache Airflow is open-source and free of charge."
"I use the tool's open-source version."
"Apache Airflow is a product that is free of licenses, meaning there is no need to buy a license."
"The solution is cheap."
"For the time being, it doesn't cost anything."
"The solution is free if you use Amazon AWS."
"The pricing for the product is reasonable."
"Apache Airflow is a cheap solution."
"The modeler itself is free. For the whole BPM suite, there are other options that may be better."
"I think that its price is reasonable."
"If they can freeze the pricing in a contract, I advise them to do so."
"It is on par with other BPM tools, but not as expensive as Pega nor Appian."
"The product must improve its cost."
"The modeling part of the software is free. Most of the time, it is used for this purpose."
"I was using the free version."
"The pricing model is good; I believe it's free for up to 20 users, and then they start charging. I hear the solution can get quite expensive, however."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Educational Organization
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?
Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...
What do you like most about Apache Airflow?
Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Airflow?
It is an open-source tool. There are no additional fees or charges associated with the product. Expenses are associated with only the machines that our company uses on AWS.
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...
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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Agari, WePay, Astronomer
adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.
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