BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs Bizagi comparison

Bizagi and BiZZdesign are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bizagi is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4, while BiZZdesign is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.4. Bizagi holds a 10.5% mindshare in BPD, compared to BiZZdesign’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Bizagi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of BiZZdesign users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bizagi and BiZZdesign HoriZZon are two competing products in the business process management software space. While Bizagi is noted for its affordability and ease of use, BiZZdesign HoriZZon tends to have the upper hand with its extensive modeling capabilities and adherence to industry standards, which can be crucial for larger organizations.

Features: Bizagi is recognized for its ease of use, rapid process automation capabilities, and customer-driven improvements. It also provides solid documentation functionalities which benefit small to medium enterprises. On the other hand, BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers robust integration capabilities, compliance with standards like ArchiMate, and a comprehensive suite for strategic portfolio planning, making it highly suitable for enterprise architecture management.

Room for Improvement: Bizagi needs to enhance stability in newer versions and address performance issues associated with larger workflows. Additionally, there's a need for better integration features and more flexible licensing options. BiZZdesign HoriZZon could improve its complex user experience, enhance REST APIs, and better manage costs to become more appealing for budget-conscious organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bizagi supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, although its technical support receives mixed reviews regarding responsiveness. In contrast, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is primarily cloud-based, aligning well with organizations preferring cloud solutions, and is known for effective customer service and quick responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Bizagi's pricing includes a free modeler and offers cost-effective automation, though recent price increases cause some concern for users. Many users appreciate its ROI due to the quick deployment. In comparison, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is more expensive, ideal for organizations that can maximize its extensive features, potentially offsetting higher costs with strategic advantages.

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Categories and Ranking

Bizagi

Ranking in Business Process Design

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (6th), Process Automation (8th), Rapid Application Development Software (15th), Low-Code Development Platforms (11th), No-Code Development Platforms (4th), Process Mining (5th)

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)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bizagi is 10.5%, up from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

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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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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has an easy to use interface which final users accepted with much more enthusiasm than our ERP (SAP)."

"It can be useful as a tool to improve your communications and the control of your processes. For example, when you have to explain a process to seven or eight stakeholders who think differently as well as have different experiences in different functional departments, it is not easy. Sometimes you are using a lot of technical terms, and other times, you are dealing with management terminology. The visual representation helps you create a better alignment and understanding for different roles and stakeholders of your workforce."

"The interface, design, and accessible user manuals to help get started using the solution are valuable features in Bizagi."

"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."

"The initial setup is super simple."

"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."

"Its cost is the most valuable. It is not as expensive. It is also easy to make different types of processes for the users."

"Bizagi is simple. It's simple to learn."

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"The powerful editing function in teamwork project-based, common or shared modeling, based on a powerful repository and knowledge sharing in a portal are the most valuable features. These are the most important features for me. I can add the integration of individual modeling notations like Archimate plus BPMN and DMN, and so on. We travel from one location to another and the tool allows us to keep track."

"It is very easy to use. I can just click on an application component and find out if we are using this particular component. This provides us flexibility."

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon, from my experience, include its out-of-the-box connectors, such as integration with ServiceNow, Excel, and SQL databases, making data repository management more efficient."

"The initial setup of this solution was very straightforward."

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

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

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Cons

"It would be helpful if they added some extra features in the next update."

"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."

"Bizagi allows for automation, but it's very complicated."

"I would like to see more in terms of analytics and better reporting."

"It should provide the ability to create a simple application. It can be used for database modeling diagrams and forms, but it should also support CRUD, that is, create, read, update and delete."

"Framework approach, which extends to reusability in tools, like Pega, for deployment management could be improved."

"I don't know if it's a problem with my operating system or a Bizagi problem, but many times I see that when I try to connect different activities, they show up as not connected."

"When you start working with information modeling, et cetera, here is no really good solution for the data modeling and information modeling."

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"It lacks capabilities with regard to infrastructure modeling."

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

"The repository of duplicate objects is bad."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Integration definitely needs improvement. There are some restrictions. We've seen that it doesn't integrate with everything we might expect."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing model is good; I believe it's free for up to 20 users, and then they start charging. I hear the solution can get quite expensive, however."

"Its price is reasonable."

"I think that its price is reasonable."

"The paid version costs us about $20,000 for 100 users annually."

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

"The price could be lower."

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

"When we were working with the on-premises solution, the licenses were a little bit expensive because we had to buy one by one a package of a hundred licenses, whereas now, we are working with the cloud solution, and it has a different cost. It's a different business model because we pay the license for the developers, but the cost is by the environment, and we have unlimited licenses. The business model is different now, but the benefit ratio is good."

More Bizagi pricing and cost advice

"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."

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

"The price is reasonable."

"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."

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

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

"[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."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

30%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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?

My company uses the free version of the product. In our company, we are doing documentation and modeling. When we reach that point of automating the processes, then maybe we shall acquire the paid ...

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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 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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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

Bizagi

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

BiZZdesign

Sample Customers

adidas, Audi, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Post DHL & many more - 500+ customer globally.

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

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