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 most valuable feature is the simulation."
"The product allowed users to connect with flow chart elements with ease."
"The product has a comfortable GUI and a good environment for users."
"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."
"BPMN 2.0 compliance, while you model the processes, the system can detect your notation errors."
"The most beneficial features of Bizagi for our business processes are its seamless connectivity between process elements and its ability to automate tasks and perform simulations."
"The user logic is very easy to understand, even for people who are not engineers nor developers."
"Bizagi is really great for beginners because it's user-friendly and you can learn in it quickly, whereas other similar software are harder."
"It is simple to build the first model for the solution."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"The features I find most valuable is the ability to create a document and then put it into a OneCare artifact."
"Provides a single repository for all architecture work."
"The most valuable feature is the integrated data model, so if I change the name of an item, all models using that object are automatically updated."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"Its traversability is most valuable. I can use ArchiMate, and I can create a UML model. ArchiMate is for logical enterprise architecture, UML is for software engineering, and BPMN is for business processes. I can build it to have multiple models, and they are also traversable, which is not something that every tool allows. If there is a huge organization, you can segment it and have separate models for business technology or internal resource management system. You don't need to keep them in one model, and you can decide to segregate them."
"Also, the tool sometimes feels not so mature when we find random deploy errors from testing to production environment."
"Bizagi's UI should include shorter steps for documenting controls, documenting properties, changing some attributes in the object, and adding additional text."
"Bizagi allows for automation, but it's very complicated."
"Enhancing data generation methods for easier printing and refining the file attachment and user interface to optimize usability."
"Can be difficult for new users."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more in terms of analytics and better reporting."
"The Portfolio Management features can be added in the next release. As it helps you to manage more portfolio of projects and architectures of cost projects on a portfolio level. This would be an important feature in the next release."
"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."
"Its best features are not intuitive or easy to learn. Most companies I have worked with, when I see what they are doing with it , are not using more than 5% of what they could and should be doing with it."
"Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance"
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"I think the product is good. When I'm trying to do something specific for some part of project documentation, it's hard to get it figured out if you don't use it all the time. It's such a massive tool, it's hard to figure out how to dig in and get to the documentation where you have to be to get some idea of what to do. There are not a lot of examples that I'm aware of to be able to do that."
"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."
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Bizagi is ranked 5th in Business Process Design with 78 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd 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, Microsoft Power Apps and OutSystems, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Bizagi vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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