BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs Bonita comparison

BiZZdesign and Bonitasoft are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. BiZZdesign is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.4, while Bonitasoft is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2. BiZZdesign holds a 2.2% mindshare in BPD, compared to Bonitasoft’s 4.5% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of BiZZdesign users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Bonitasoft users who would recommend it.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bonita and BiZZdesign HoriZZon are both prominent in the business process management domain. Bonita is notable for its pricing and flexible support, whereas BiZZdesign HoriZZon has an edge with its extensive features, justifying its higher cost.

Features: Bonita supports impressive process automation, with robust customization and integration options, benefiting operational workflows. It provides user-friendly form creation and versatile platform support. On the other hand, BiZZdesign HoriZZon excels with advanced modeling tools, thorough analytics for strategic planning, and a powerful repository for architecture capability, making it suitable for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Bonita could enhance its deployment time and streamline its scripting capabilities to appeal to those seeking non-programming solutions. Documentation could be more comprehensive, especially for new users. BiZZdesign HoriZZon may benefit from simplifying its onboarding process and providing additional training materials to ease implementation complexity. Enhancements in real-time feedback features and better mobile support could further improve its usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bonita offers straightforward deployment, with clear-cut processes making it accessible for businesses, along with prompt and effective customer support. BiZZdesign HoriZZon's deployment can be intricate but is supported by a thorough onboarding and guidance process, addressing strategic needs through its reputed customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Bonita's competitive pricing structure ensures a quicker ROI due to its lower setup costs. BiZZdesign HoriZZon, though more expensive initially, offers a long-term ROI potentially greater due to its extensive features and strategic insights that can drive business value over time.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Business Process Design

11th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (6th)

Bonita

Ranking in Business Process Design

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (14th), Process Automation (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 2.2%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bonita is 4.5%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

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BijoyTalukder

Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

Helps to get a clear overview of our enterprise architecture, especially when dealing with multiple departments

One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs. While the platform offers REST APIs, they have limitations when it comes to retrieving and exporting data. Obtaining detailed information at the individual application or component level, including IDs, costs, and deployment-related data, can be challenging through these APIs. This limitation makes it difficult to smoothly export such granular data. I have raised this issue with the BiZZdesign team, and they expressed interest in addressing it, but I'm not aware of the current status of this improvement effort. Nonetheless, improving the usability and flexibility of the REST APIs for data extraction is an area that could enhance the platform's capabilities.

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations

The initial setup is straightforward and can be completed with the environment within an hour. First, take the latest from the git repository and check the git code to the monitor studio and a bar file, a deployable Bonita archive file. Then, take that process to the Bonita server, running at runtime on another server. Finally, deploy and enable it by selecting the proper organization.

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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

"I like the flexibility of the modeling part for standards like ArchiMate and, at the same time, BPMN. It allows us to connect elements from different areas and to have a single repository and a single source of truth. It gives us one place to do analysis throughout the organization."

"The tool's most valuable feature is that its collaboration part is very good."

"This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool."

"The feature I find most valuable is that the start times and loading times are short. It takes only a few seconds to load the repository and whenever I want to open diagrams, they are there almost immediately."

"t's a good tool. My colleagues that are making use of it for application, business processes, or data modeling, are very satisfied with it. They find it easy to use. The graphical representation is simple but therefore efficient, so I know that they are planning a very good commencement on the use of these tools."

"The enterprise studio where the modelling happens is valuable."

"I used BiZZdesign HoriZZon at two organizations. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I used it with a small team for architectural modeling of the student record system. We modeled teams, process objects, and their interactions with applications. We also used it to model a gradual rollout with plateaus showing migration over time. At the BBC, I used it to model software services for publishing content online. I showed key model views to senior stakeholders using Horizon, allowing them to modify and score applications and services."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon is scalable, and I'd give it an eight out of ten for scalability. Our customers are enterprise level companies, but the solution is suitable for small and mid-sized companies as well."

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"This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."

"I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features."

"The user interface is easy to use."

"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."

"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."

"I really enjoy using the workflow management."

"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."

"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."

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Cons

"It should be more open to integrating with other existing tools. Although there has been progress in the past."

"One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs."

"Scalability is a bit of a problem for BiZZdesign. There is always a possibility it will failover."

"The users of BiZZdesign should be able to enter their data or make modeling changes via HoriZZon."

"It lacks capabilities with regard to infrastructure modeling."

"There is room for improvement in making it more seamless between the modeling and the analysis pieces. Sometimes you have to do some work in the backend to ensure that the HoriZZon portal really gets all of the information the way you want it. They are working on the seamlessness between what they call Enterprise Studio and HoriZZon."

"In HoriZZon, there are different matrices. In some of the cases, there is an option to aggregate them, but in other cases, we have not done this, e.g., to see the proper costs. For example, if I have 10 different matrices, then I need to create an aggregate view out of those 10 matrices somewhere. That is where we have been struggling a bit. We have a counterpart from the HoriZZon product team with whom we have bi-weekly discussions. We have suggested to him that this can be improved."

"This tool is something of a beast - it takes a long time to learn, and it isn't possible for casual users and most architects. Unless a person spends 500 or 1,000 hours on the tool or does very concentrated sessions using all its functionalities, it's very difficult to master."

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"Installation could be made easier."

"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."

"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."

"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."

"The dashboard has limited features."

"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."

"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."

"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"[The] Orbus... pricing model was based on every single functionality having a price. The pricing was comparable but if we wanted to scale, it would have ended up being a lot more expensive. BiZZdesign gave us one price with all of the functionality, and we could scale as much as we needed."

"We were customers and bought licenses from them. We used their remote instance initially but upgraded to the on-device version due to lag. For pricing, we paid about 2200 pounds a year per seat for the client installation at an educational rate. I'm not sure about commercial rates. I managed to get a free copy at BBC since it was for evaluation purposes."

"I haven't found any issues with the scalability and licensing parts that are access-related."

"If one is very cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a seven out of ten."

"The price is reasonable."

"In terms of this particular product usage, my clients currently only use per-user licenses."

"The pricing model is slightly on the high side and could be more competitive for long-term partnerships."

"First and foremost within the scope of improvement for the solution would be the cost. It's very costly..."

"I believe this is a very good financial choice."

"Price to service ratio with Bonita BPM is good."

"The product is not cheaper, not costlier; it is reasonable. Bonita’s license is very flexible, with options to meet the needs of different customers and clients. Previously, it was less flexible, but now, many different licensing options are available."

"have installed the image of Bonita BPM on Amazon AWS and there is just one option to use and pay for."

"We are using the Community Version, which can be used free of charge."

"I am using the free version of Bonita."

"You pay an annual fee and can have an unlimited number of processes and users."

"The price is fair for what we are using the solution for."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

25%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool.

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What needs improvement with BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

The ability to generate charts and deal with a use case involving Kibana was quite difficult. We don't use the chart functionality much, and I think that is quite problematic at the moment. We have...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

I use the solution in my company for all sorts of things, like enterprise and solution architecture. As part of our design process, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is used for road mapping. We also use it for ...

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How does Bonita compare with Camunda Platform?

One of the things we like best about Bonita is that you can create without coding - it is a low-code platform. With Bonita, you can build the entire mechanism using the GUI, it’s that simple. You c...

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What do you like most about Bonita?

The user interface is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bonita?

The Enterprise edition is very expensive.

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Overview

Make smarter decisions and optimize outcomes by unifying all your strategy, capabilities, operating models and change portfolios in a single platform.

With all the data about your business in one place you can see the big picture and make properly informed strategic decisions to drive growth. Bizzdesign Horizzon brings together strategy, IT architecture, operating models, data, capabilities, change portfolios and ideas into a single, intuitive collaborative business design platform. Real-time visibility of key metrics and trends allows you to take action more quickly. Accelerating the speed and accuracy of your operations now – and into the future.

Core Platform Capabilities:

Multi-discipline collaboration
Data Integration
Advanced analytics
Models and Roadmaps
Governance & Security
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BiZZdesign

Bonitasoft helps innovative companies worldwide deliver better digital user experiences for customers and employees. The extensible and open Bonita application platform unleashes the full potential of multidisciplinary development teams to create Living Apps: applications that allow continuous and incremental improvement, connecting tailored user interfaces with reliable back-office operations.

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Sample Customers

T-Mobile, Shell, HSBC, Erasmus University, VIVAT Insurance

With more than 1000 customers in 75 countries, and its ecosystem of more than 120,000 members, Bonitasoft is the largest provider of open-source Business Process Management, Low-code and Digital Transformation software worldwide.

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