BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs iGrafx Process360 Live Platform comparison

BiZZdesign and iGrafx are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. BiZZdesign is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.1, while iGrafx is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.3. BiZZdesign holds a 2.0% mindshare in BPD, compared to iGrafx’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of BiZZdesign users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of iGrafx users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between BiZZdesign HoriZZon and iGrafx Process360 Live Platform 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.

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BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs. iGrafx Process360 Live Platform

October 2024

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IBM Blueworks Live

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of IBM Blueworks Live is 3.3%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 2.0%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of iGrafx Process360 Live Platform is 1.2%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

Featured Reviews

AjarMathur

Global Innovation Director at Ernst & Young

Jul 5, 2023

An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease

IBM Blueworks is BPMN 2.0 compliant, but it does not adapt to the overarching BPMN 2.0 concepts. There is only one kind of BPMN 2.0 diagram. It is a process diagram. It doesn't have the concept of separate tools, which other products offer. If I had to do a hardcore BPMN 2.0 modeling, the product would have its own reservations. There were features we could not explore from a BPMN 2.0 perspective. Most of the time, people who are shifting from Microsoft Office tools to a digitized way of working still want the reporting capabilities to be strong. Some tools, like ARIS or Signavio, offer customized solutions from the reporting perspective. If I have documented my whole finance process and want to fetch out a complete SOP report in a very customized manner, IBM Blueworks cannot provide it. We have to rely on some other services. So that's one area in which we always struggled, how to really customize the reporting aspects. I understand that we need to keep the tool a little more asset-light. It's very difficult to keep adding many options, but at least a few BPMN 2.0 options were needed. We have been suggesting to IBM that we should have some way of customizing the reporting. At least we should get a custom way of reporting it into different formats like Excel or putting up a logo for one of the clients so that their SAP can be printed that way.

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Venkat Raju Mallipudi

Group Chief of Enterprise Architecture & S/W Engineering/ CTO at Aventra Group

Mar 26, 2024

Easy to implement, and it's reliable but restrictions in integration capabilities

Integration definitely needs improvement. There are some restrictions. We've seen that it doesn't integrate with everything we might expect. Out of ten products we want to integrate, maybe five or six integrate easily. The other four might face challenges due to lower investment in the products or compatibility issues. It's definitely not easy to achieve seamless integration for any product. We can only test to a certain extent, and issues could arise from either BiZZdesign HoriZZon or the other product. Another point is the cost of licenses. If they were a bit lower, it would be easier for businesses to acquire more licenses... something like an enterprise or bulk license model. Maybe different pricing tiers based on the number of licenses, like significant discounts for orders over one hundred. This could help clients adopt the product.

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SangameshwarKadole

Senior Process Engineer at Wells Fargo International Solutions

Aug 25, 2023

A reasonably stable BPM solution useful for process governance and process mining

The solution, iGrafx, is used in my company globally as a BPM solution. I use iGrafx since I am involved in process or service modeling for my company. My company uses iGrafx for web modeling and iGrafx FlowCharter's desktop version, apart from the solution's other functionalities, like iGrafx…

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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

"The ease of documenting and digitizing the processes was valuable to us."

"IBM Blueworks Live is cloud-based and provides easy access to all your processes in one place."

"The reporting that we can generate from IBM Blueworks Live has been interesting. We found the KPIs, risks, process modeling, format, and colors, to be very good. We use the EY template and it is interesting to generate reporting in this format."

"The solution is easy to operate. Also, there is an automatic mode to make the business flow. You don't have to put any lines or arrows in a decision point in IBM Blueworks Live; it's very automatic."

"The business process discovery is excellent. The diagram or blueprinting functionality of the solution are very good. It's quite easy. You can link the sub-processes and get a big overview of the whole process then."

"The licenses are transferrable between different users."

"It has a built-in capability to capture process owners and managers against processes along with other process governance roles."

"The solution is stable. All the refreshes run very well."

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"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."

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

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

"Among the valuable features is the ability to document standards. For example, we have mandatory operating standards that need to be followed by every application and every architecture. We use things like table charts and pie charts for documenting the costs incurred across the systems. All of these are good features."

"The most valuable features are the application, portfolio, data, architectures, and modeling things."

"The most valuable feature is that it allows you to work with different methods, using the same tool."

"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."

"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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"Web diagramming and RACI have helped expedite the process, capture, and ownership initiatives of our organization."

"One of the biggest plus points of the product stems from the fact that I have never seen any glitches in it."

"Another good feature is that the numbering of the shapes in iGrafx is much easier and more convenient, in comparison to what is found in Visio. So far I haven't found anything similar to what I have with iGrafx, in that regard."

"iGrafx gives you the capability of documenting your process and then the ability to use it as a tool for analysis to identify the loopholes and shortcomings of your process."

"We found the technical support to be helpful."

"The solution's most beneficial feature is the 360 approach, where documentation, process mining, simulation, and automation capabilities are in one solution."

"Provides a valuable BPMN feature."

"Simulation is most valuable."

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Cons

"I can't insert any images. For example, within the process map, if I want to put it in the box or rectangle, or circle. If I have to use one image or icon, that's not possible."

"There should be an option to import from and export to Microsoft Visio. Being able to move files back and forth between Blueworks Live and Visio would be good."

"In the Blue Works Live software boxes and lines are automatically placed by the programme and can't be easily manipulated."

"The user interface is quite easy at first but process analysts soon run into roadblocks of limited functionality, which is disappointing."

"We'd also like to see it be Six Sigma or Lean compatible, a lot of people have asked about that."

"The font size is really, really small and it's really not useful to print out process models because you cannot read what's written in different boxes. This makes it necessary for people to have access to the tool. We view licenses to see how the printing or output is. It's not very good."

"Some of the import functionality was a bit restrictive, in terms of loading data in from other data sources. Something as simple as Excel, loading data tables from Excel, wasn't great. And vice-versa. Some of the export and import functionality with something like Visio - which, I know it's a slightly different tool - but being able to work seamlessly with those other tool sets would've been quite useful. I know it was something that was in the pipeline to be looked at. So that would be useful."

"The initial setup is neither straightforward nor complex however you do need to know what you are doing."

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"There's room for improvement. When I finished using it over a year ago, I discussed implementing C4 notation with BiZZdesign HoriZZon.They've likely done this now, but I haven't seen it. Setting up interactive views for stakeholders to score services was a bit difficult."

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

"There could be simpler modelling."

"The ability to generate charts and deal with a use case involving Kibana was quite difficult."

"It lacks capabilities with regard to infrastructure modeling."

"I have seen table charts where, if the chart is a little too big, it does not fit in HoriZZon and it is not at all visible... There have been several times where we could not publish a chart properly and we had to break the chart into small tables and create multiple artifacts, creating a complete mess. This should be seriously taken up by BiZZdesign because there is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of usability. It's not at all good, unfortunately."

"We tested it, and we had support from BiZZdesign, including patches, but it just didn't do what we wanted."

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

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"In the next release, I would like to see more layers like three, four, and five. It might be possible but I haven't seen it yet."

"If customers want to change the color or the logo, they have to go through every page to verify everything is right."

"One of the areas in the product with certain shortcomings where improvements are required includes the tool's reporting capabilities."

"I would love to see a template and shapes for customer journey mapping."

"The look and feel, along with the ease of use of the solution's web modeling version, is an area with certain shortcomings."

"It would be helpful to be able to do more analytics and generate reports on historical documents that have already been uploaded to the server."

"The price could be more competitive."

"The solution could benefit from improvements to its interface. More specifically, when compared to other tools, the process modeling features lack symbols or object types that are used to represent the information or data within the process."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are seeing ROI from this solution. The solution has saved us time."

"The solution is very, very cost-effective."

"The solution is not very expensive."

"There are editor licenses that are around 50 euros per month, and contributor licenses that are around 30 euros per month."

"They have a free subscription model that gives a lot of power to the users."

"Price wise, IBM Blueworks Live is in the middle range, and I would give it a five out of ten."

"Making it less expensive would be good."

"Based on the licenses purchased, from a footprint perspective, you can have as many people as you want. You have multiple different categories of licenses to keep the cost low."

"The price is reasonable."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"[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."

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

"The licensing part is one of the problems. Its licensing depends on the number of users, so it sometimes gets expensive."

"My company is trying to replace iGrafx because the license is a little bit expensive."

"Earlier, the licensing part was complex because there were so many modules and elements in the tool. Over the last one and a half years, a lot of work has gone into how the product has priced and positioned its tools in the market."

"I have heard that the solution's pricing is very competitive."

"Our license is a subscription-based model that is per user. The solution is not expensive, I believe a subscription-based model is $10 per user."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Educational Organization

34%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Transportation Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Blueworks Live?

The solution is easy to operate. Also, there is an automatic mode to make the business flow. You don't have to put an...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Blueworks Live?

The solution costs around 600-700 dollars/year, which is quite affordable.

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What needs improvement with IBM Blueworks Live?

Sometimes, the tool is automatic, which can complicate it, but once you're accustomed to manipulating it, you can use...

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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 pr...

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What needs improvement with BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

There's always room for improvement. When I finished using it over a year ago, I discussed implementing C4 notation w...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

I used BiZZdesign HoriZZon at two organizations. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I used it with a small team f...

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What do you like most about iGrafx?

The solution's technical support is of good quality since they offer fast and seamless services.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for iGrafx?

I have heard that the solution's pricing is very competitive.

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What needs improvement with iGrafx?

If customers want to change the color or the logo, they have to go through every page to verify everything is right. ...

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Overview

IBM Blueworks Live is a cloud-based business process modeling tool that helps you discover, map and document your processes. It is easy to use, allowing you to learn and perform business process modeling in minutes.

With Blueworks Live you can:

Simplify business process modeling
Quickly build business processes in a straightforward, cloud-based interface designed for both IT and business users.

Improve process efficiency and accuracy
A central process repository eliminates version control and consistency issues by providing users real-time access to process workflows.

Enhance cross-team collaboration
A shared team workspace engages all business process owners, encouraging cross-team participation and continuous process improvement.

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
Business Insight Graph

The iGrafx Process360 Live Platform is a comprehensive software platform tailored for organizations undergoing digital transformation. Its core functionalities include process mining, process design, simulation, predictive analytics, and AI-based automation. By leveraging these tools, businesses can gain valuable insights into their processes, streamline design and optimization efforts, and harness automation for enhanced efficiency. Whether analyzing existing processes, visually modeling workflows, simulating potential changes, or employing predictive analytics, Process360 Live facilitates a seamless journey towards process intelligence and management, pivotal for modern businesses aiming for operational excellence.

Sample Customers

Cloudsoft Corp. Ltd., Bayer, S¾SS, Essex County Council

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

Multinational Bank

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