Bizagi vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

Bizagi and VMware are both solutions in the Process Automation category. Bizagi is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4, while VMware is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2. Bizagi holds a 6.2% mindshare in PA, compared to VMware’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Bizagi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

vCenter Orchestrator and Bizagi compete in the IT workflow and business process automation space. While vCenter Orchestrator is recognized for its comprehensive IT orchestration, Bizagi offers a more user-friendly experience with its business process modeling features.

Features: vCenter Orchestrator manages complex IT workflows and automates virtualization processes, supporting features like Distributed Resource Scheduling, fault tolerance, and strong integration with VMware solutions. Bizagi excels in business process automation with rapid modeling and simulation capabilities. It adheres to BPMN 2.0 compliance and enhances business agility through effective process simulations.

Room for Improvement: vCenter Orchestrator could improve its complex licensing and integration features, simplify its GUI, and address its high costs with a better price-performance balance. Bizagi could enhance its automation features, stability post-updates, and improve reporting and process execution speed, along with better integration with third-party and advanced machine learning applications.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products focus on on-premises deployments with hybrid cloud options. vCenter Orchestrator is supported well, though its technical support can be slow. Bizagi offers simpler setup options, beneficial for smaller teams, although service speed and robustness can vary.

Pricing and ROI: vCenter Orchestrator is perceived as expensive with complex licensing, yet offers value in extensive capabilities for large environments. Bizagi is cost-effective with free and paid options, but recent price increases have drawn criticism. Despite this, it is deemed competitively priced for larger organizations seeking scalable solutions, with varied ROI for both products.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bizagi

Ranking in Process Automation

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (4th), Business Process Management (BPM) (5th), Rapid Application Development Software (16th), Low-Code Development Platforms (11th), No-Code Development Platforms (5th), Process Mining (6th)

vCenter Orchestrator

Ranking in Process Automation

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Bizagi is 6.2%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Orchestrator is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

Enables budget review efficiency with open source advantages and workflow orchestration

Definitely, right now, it is purely open source, and we don't have much community support. If they add a few more capabilities like AIML and DocGen AI, these features would be good. Reporting capabilities can be improved more, and community support should be increased. Otherwise, people cannot onboard that particular technology easily.

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Gerhard Gmelch

IT architect endpoint at Rohde & Schwarz

Enhance automation efficiency with cost-effective graphical workflow design

I use vCenter Orchestrator for automation purposes, specifically to run automation workbooks The most valuable features are the graphical UI for designing the workflows and the interfaces that come out of the box. Additionally, it is included in the VMware Vitalization Stack, which means there…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"With the appropriate governance framework, properly trained business analysts can be empowered to design and build business solutions themselves."

"The most valuable feature is the simulation."

"I like the ease of use and the fact that you can download and use their free version, which is unlimited. However, while it's unlimited use, some features aren't available."

"The initial setup is super simple."

"This is a free solution that allows us to create quality visualizations for our company."

"The product has a comfortable GUI and a good environment for users."

"The main feature of Bizagi is the speed to which we can automate processes and how we can modify them without a strong impact on the end users."

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"What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier through automation. People can request to automate all processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs."

"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"It is the most cost-effective method for moving data between machines."

"The platform integration is straightforward, especially with recent updates, making connecting with various systems and streamlining workflows easier."

"vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library."

"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."

"I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions."

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Cons

"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."

"For the small business, this is very bad because it is still fragmented. The licensing policy should be more flexible and small company oriented. In micro-small companies, there should only be one or two. That's not the problem. Maybe it is too flexible, there are so many pieces that you need to put together. When you have a small business, it can be a little complicated, not so easy."

"The tool is expensive and it should improve its pricing."

"The gateway through which it connects with other vendors, specifically RPA vendors, is one aspect that could be improved."

"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."

"If they add a few more capabilities like AIML and DocGen AI, these features would be 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 is difficult to drive ROI on types of processes involving complex business rules."

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"Using this solution requires a lot of experience."

"Enhancing the platform's setup process intuitiveness and offering more flexible pricing options could further improve its accessibility across different company sizes."

"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."

"The solution's price could be cheaper."

"The GUI should be enhanced in the future."

"The scalability option provided by the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."

"There can be compatibility issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company uses the free version of the product."

"It is only necessary to pay for licenses when ready to deploy applications to production."

"Some solutions are completely free. One would be the business process diagramming tool, the server beneath it, and the automation tool. You don't need to pay to map the business process, but you would need to when you want to execute any of the commands. So, basically, they lure you in with a free ride, and when you want to scale the solution, you'll have to pay for it."

"The price could be lower."

"For the prices, we didn't try a negotiations about licensing or pricing, but if i can say a word about this, I find Bizagi prices to be well thought out."

"From what I know of the market, I think Bizagi is a cheap solution for process engineering. Out of the solutions I've tried, from cheapest to most expensive, would be Vizor, Bizagi, Signavio, and then Siemens. I used a version of Bizagi that my university provided for free, so I have never paid for a license."

"It has a very high price. Many clients complain about the price for maintaining the application on Bizagi."

"We didn't use the licensed versions where you could exactly go into automatization. However, we looked at the pricing in the beginning, and the only thing that I remember is that it was too expensive for the things we were using because our clients would also have to license the product. One client said that it was too expensive for the benefit they get out of it."

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"The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."

"The licensing cost is manageable because they have different versions available, standard, essential, and advanced."

"The concept of hyper-convergence is smart. I don't know if it can be applied with less cost to be more affordable for small or medium-sized companies. The cost is a very important factor for it. We are currently depending on SAN storage. However, the hyper-converged solutions are depending on the storage within the hosts, such as vSAN in the VMware. It is a smart solution."

"We provide the VMware solution to our clients, for which they pay a perpetual license."

"The licensing module is somewhat complex. Calculating the cost is complicated. Many of our clients are unclear about the billing system and the traffic metering."

"vCenter Orchestrator is an expensive solution."

"My organization didn't have to pay extra for vCenter Orchestrator. It was already included, so it's basically free. Even VMware regular support is included."

"vCenter Orchestrator could be more affordable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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...

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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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bizagi?

Bizagi's pricing is very aggressive, and it was one of the reasons we chose it. It was less expensive than some of the other tools.

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What do you like most about vCenter Orchestrator?

The stability of the product is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vCenter Orchestrator?

We're running a low-profile budget. This is not our main focus on investment technology, so we're trying to reduce costs due to the change from perpetual to subscription licenses.

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What needs improvement with vCenter Orchestrator?

After the change from perpetual licensing to subscriptions, the cost model changed. We are considering alternatives since we lost the perpetual aspect, and support is changing.

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Overview

Bizagi’s industry-leading low-code process automation platform connects people, applications, robots, and information. As the most business-friendly and flexible solution on the market, Bizagi enables true collaboration between business and IT, delivering faster adoption and success. Fuelled by a community of 1 million users, Bizagi powers over 1,000 organizations worldwide including Adidas, BAE Systems, and Old Mutual. For more information visit www.bizagi.com

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VMware vCenter Orchestrator simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware vCloud Suite components to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools and processes.

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