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 find Bizagi so user friendly. I also think that its modeling abilities are great and it's easy to teach them to new users."
"Agility, reverse engineering, customized portal web, help desk and user guides, easy deployment, simple to modify."
"Bizagi is simple. It's simple to learn."
"Business process modelling and simulation."
"Agility is most valuable because we can develop so much faster than other tools. We can make requirements, develop, and go out to production much faster. So, agility in the software cycle is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."
"The user logic is very easy to understand, even for people who are not engineers nor developers."
"The API is pretty straightforward."
"Visio has improved our organization through an essential collaboration with the other Microsoft applications like SharePoint and Excel. So basically in the earlier days, what used to happen, a majority of the organization captured all the as-is process, the time and motion data in the form of Excel and then they used to create process diagrams using other freeware applications. Collaboration allows easy and convenient sharing with other stakeholders, that is really helpful with Visio."
"The interface is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"It's very agile and user friendly with a lot of templates."
"Process modeling is a good feature."
"The tools tab within Visio has been amazingly useful, and it is updated quite frequently. Along with how Visio handles components and everything else, I would call it an easy-to-use tool."
"It is easy to learn and implement."
"It keeps track of its connections as you move things around."
"A lot of built-in templates are really phenomenal. They cut down the time when you're trying to get something out. They reduce the complexity that technical folks like to put into things that have to be given to technical folks."
"The performance could use improvement. We couldn't connect the processes to on one file. The performance is an issue for us."
"They should improve the migration process between major versions, from version 9 to 10, we had to redo our implementation."
"Difficult to export in formats other than PDF."
"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."
"The technical support is not fast enough and should be improved."
"It needs an easier setup for the Bizagi Engine."
"From a developer's point of view, an improvement in the layout would make the UI better."
"It would be useful if we can connect Bizagi to other solutions, such as a local financial solution or Power BI. It would also be good and helpful to be able to connect Bizagi to some services solutions. It should also support right-to-left languages, such as Arabic."
"When you use a BPA solution you can open an end-to-end process in one window, go down, or go up between layers to different places. You should be able to see descriptions of the steps of the process."
"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."
"To be able to extract a report for business project management notations would be ideal."
"Its support team could be well-equipped with the required information."
"Integration with other applications need improvement. Having the functionality to integrate with databases will also make this solution better."
"The only downside to Visio is the learning curve."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
"The Auto-Align has improved significantly from the previous release; however, it still jumbles the model if your process diagram has a fair degree of complexity."
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.