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ARIS BPA vs Bizagi comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.8
ARIS BPA varies in ROI timelines, enhancing process understanding and control but with hard-to-quantify financial impacts.
Sentiment score
7.5
Bizagi offers substantial ROI with significant returns, cost-effectiveness, and competitive advantages, enhancing satisfaction among users.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
ARIS BPA's support is praised for technical assistance and flexibility but could improve in responsiveness and communication.
Sentiment score
7.0
Bizagi offers efficient customer service with occasional delays; premium plans improve responsiveness, though inconsistencies exist for others.
The consultants are fine, however, reliance on single experts for modules can be risky.
The toolset is very intuitive, so we didn’t need to contact their support much.
We cannot expect major customer support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
ARIS BPA is scalable for small to large enterprises, offering flexibility, modular features, and easy licensing for process management expansion.
Sentiment score
6.6
Bizagi is scalable and suitable for medium-sized businesses, with growth potential and performance reliant on infrastructure quality.
ARIS BPA has high scalability and wide scalability for any enterprise or organization.
For user scalability, it is a matter of licenses, while functional scalability is supported and easy to implement.
There is no direct scalability option.
If I rate scalability from one to ten, I would probably give it a six.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
ARIS BPA is generally stable, with minor issues primarily in large environments, but responsive support enhances stability perception.
Sentiment score
7.0
Bizagi is reliable with minor update issues, appreciated for performance and stability, but occasional bugs accompany new features.
The stability of ARIS BPM is quite strong, rated eight out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

ARIS BPA needs better integration, user interface, scripting, documentation, training, pricing, and simplicity for wider accessibility.
Bizagi requires enhancements in performance, integration, user interface, pricing, documentation, automation, reporting, marketing, and support.
Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance.
Software AG could improve this by making the database more open.
ARIS BPA needs to be more accurate when generating documents.
Reporting capabilities can be improved more, and community support should be increased.
For more mature environments, the integration to live systems is lacking, which affects its applicability.
 

Setup Cost

ARIS BPA pricing is high but valued by large enterprises; smaller firms may find costs prohibitive due to complex licensing.
Bizagi offers a free modeler while the full BPM suite, with revised licensing prices, favors larger enterprises over smaller ones.
Bizagi's pricing is very aggressive, and it was one of the reasons we chose it.
 

Valuable Features

ARIS BPA offers powerful modeling, customization, and collaboration tools, integrating SAP and databases, ensuring strategic alignment and governance.
Bizagi offers a user-friendly, BPMN 2.0 compliant platform excelling in process modeling and automation with fast, agile development.
ARIS BPA is a tool to build models and frameworks for organizations or reengineer business processes from both functional and business perspectives.
The most important aspect of business analysis is simplification.
The maintenance capabilities of ARIS BPM and the strong underlying database are particularly valuable.
It is open source.
The user interface is very good, making it easy for business people to understand.
 

Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA
Ranking in Business Process Design
5th
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Bizagi
Ranking in Business Process Design
6th
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (8th), Rapid Application Development Software (16th), Low-Code Development Platforms (11th), No-Code Development Platforms (5th), Process Mining (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 7.5%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bizagi is 10.6%, up from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Design
 

Q&A Highlights

it_user548199 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2016
 

Featured Reviews

Tamer Eldamanhouri - PeerSpot reviewer
Empowers teams with robust business process modeling capabilities
They should examine competitor solutions to identify differentiators. One issue related to ARIS BPA is its integration with AI; it has AI features for cloud solutions, yet many in the government sector in Kuwait do not view the cloud as viable. Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance. This aspect is crucial for adapting to the market's needs and streamlining custom solutions. While they have been helpful regarding pricing, I cannot compare ARIS BPA to other business process modeling tools because I understand some competitors have significantly lower costs than ARIS BPA. To maintain market share, good discounts should be provided to customers.
Paparao Nadipineni - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Answers from the Community

it_user548199 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016
Esperaba algo mas de este estilo, sin embargo desarrollé esta tabla de comparación de Suites BPM, la cuál no puedo anexar por lo que dejo en formato de texto en caso deque alguien requiera este conocimiento. Esta tabla fue desarrollada basandome en textos acádemicos de fuentes confiables. Sin embargo no pude encontrar el numero aproximado de clientes que usan ARIS, por lo que si alguien cuenta...
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it_user326337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 15, 2016
Please find our three comparison pages that compare each of the products you listed with eachother: 1. ARIS BPM vs. Bonita BPM https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/aris-bpm_vs_bonita-bpm 2. ARIS BPM vs. Bizagi https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/aris-bpm_vs_bizagi 3. Bizagi vs. Bonita BPM https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/bizagi_vs_bonita-bpm
it_user548199 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2016
Esperaba algo mas de este estilo, sin embargo desarrollé esta tabla de comparación de Suites BPM, la cuál no puedo anexar por lo que dejo en formato de texto en caso deque alguien requiera este conocimiento. Esta tabla fue desarrollada basandome en textos acádemicos de fuentes confiables. Sin embargo no pude encontrar el numero aproximado de clientes que usan ARIS, por lo que si alguien cuenta con esta información se lo agradecería mucho, ya que es el último dato que requiero para completar esta tabla comparativa. BizAgi Suite, Bonita BPM, IBM Suite, ARIS + Webmethods, AuraPortal, Oracle Suite, Appian eBPM HOPEX Requiere pago Software licenciado (anual o perpetuo), freeware en versiones académicas Versión pagada (licenciamiento anual) y versión gratuita Software licenciado Software licenciado Software licenciado Versión pagada y versión gratuita Software licenciado Versión pagada y versión gratuita Código abierto No Si (GPL) No No No No No No Diseño intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Medianamente intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Requiere tiempo de adaptación Medianamente intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Acceso a licencia de prueba. Si No No Si Si No Si Si Tutoriales y Soporte técnico Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Notación para diagramar BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0, BPEL BPMN 2.0, EPC BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0, BPEL BPMN 2.0, EPC BPMN 2.0 Compatibilidad con base de datos SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, HSQL SQL Server SQL Server, Oracle SQL Server Oracle SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL SQL Server, Oracle Sistema operativo Windows, Linux Multi-plataforma Multi-plataforma Windows, Linux, Mac Windows Multi-plataforma Windows, Linux, Solaris Windows Monitoreo en tiempo real Si Si Si No Si Si Si Regular Servicio en la nube Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Requiere programación No No Poco Poco No Si Poco No Número de clientes >500 >1000 >3500 >800 >2000 >2000 >2700 Principales clientes Adidas Group, BBVA, Telefónica, BNP Paribas Xerox, Stanford University, CSC Barclays, Emericon, Banca popolare di Milano, Saperion Fujitsu, Coca Cola, Electrolux, ING, Credit Suisse Toyota, RSA Chile, Coprusa Group, Refinery of the Pacific REDISA, Panduit, Total E&P Indonesie Amazon, M&T Bank, Nissan, Ford, Baxter Credit Union GNP, P&G, EuroControl, British American Tobacco Permite importar/exportar archivos BPMN Si Si Si Si Si Solo importación Si Si Nivel de documentación Medio Alto Medio Alto Alto Medio Bajo Alto Considera reglas de Negocio Si Si No Si Si No Si Si Validación de Modelo (diagramas) Si Si Si Si No Si Si Permite simulación Si Si Si Si Si Si Si No Requiere conocimiento del producto Poco Poco Normal Poco Poco Normal Normal Poco Año primera versión lanzada 1989 2001 1998 2009 2001 1997 1999 1994 Accesibilidad móvil Si Si Si Si Si Si Si No Nivel de seguridad Regular Regular Regular Alto Alto Alto Facilidad de instalación Sencilla Sencilla Sencilla Sencilla Sencilla Media Sencilla Media Versión en español SI Si Si No Si Si No Si Saludos.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?
The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?
Pricing for ARIS BPA is average, not cheap or expensive. It's cost-effective and worth the money we pay.
What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?
I find it difficult to access the database as I want with direct querying. I must write scripts, which requires specific knowledge. Software AG could improve this by making the database more open. ...
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...
What do you like most about Bizagi?
The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products.
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.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.
adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.
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