Bizagi vs erwin Evolve comparison

Bizagi and Quest Software are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bizagi is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5, while Quest Software is ranked #21. Bizagi holds a 9.4% mindshare in BPD, compared to Quest Software’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Bizagi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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81% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

Bizagi and erwin Evolve compete in the business process and data modeling category. Bizagi has the upper hand for smaller teams seeking cost-effective solutions, while erwin Evolve is favored by larger organizations for its advanced technical capabilities.

Features: Bizagi offers features like BPMN 2.0 compliance, rapid process automation, and extensive content creation. Its intuitive tools empower analysts, complemented by free modeling options and comprehensive integration. Erwin Evolve shines with reverse engineering and enterprise architecture capabilities, providing powerful data modeling and robust technology integration, ensuring comprehensive metadata management and data lineage.

Room for Improvement: Bizagi could enhance document management, migration between versions, and governance scaling. Users also suggest improving customization flexibility, support mechanisms, and simulation tools. Erwin Evolve seeks better NoSQL database support, clearer documentation, and simpler tool integration. Its scalability and ease of use could be improved for wider adoption.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bizagi offers deployment models on-premises and cloud, but reviews suggest variability in customer service, with technical support needing improvement in responsiveness. Erwin Evolve also provides diverse deployment models, prominently cloud-based, with praised customer success and technical support teams noted to be more proactive than Bizagi in ensuring timely user support.

Pricing and ROI: Bizagi's pricing attracts cost-conscious organizations and smaller teams, offering free modeling tools that enhance its appeal. Its pricing strategy aligns with client needs for value, framing a competitive market position. Erwin Evolve is more expensive but offers a high return for investment, perceived as justified by organizations seeking advanced features, while Bizagi is preferred for budget-friendly solutions with a positive user experience.

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Categories and Ranking

Bizagi

Ranking in Business Process Design

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (7th), Process Automation (9th), Rapid Application Development Software (17th), Low-Code Development Platforms (13th), No-Code Development Platforms (5th), Process Mining (7th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (16th)

erwin Evolve

Ranking in Business Process Design

21st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bizagi is 9.4%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of erwin Evolve is 1.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Bizagi	9.4%
erwin Evolve	1.9%
Other	88.7%

Business Process Design

Featured Reviews

Fred_Lee

Enterprise Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Intuitive toolset engages users effectively in agile projects

I would recommend Bizagi depending on the maturity of the organization. For those just starting, it's a good tool to get into business modeling. In more mature environments, I might not pick this toolset because it doesn't integrate with live systems well. Overall, I would rate Bizagi between eight to nine.

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ScottLawson

Director IT Architecture at QAD

Enables us to present data and objects visually, in diagrams, and to make them available via the web. Also enables web-based editing of data.

We tried their collaborative web modeling and we used it with a few people but we tend to not use that piece. We tend to collaborate with the people and then my team of architects draws up the diagram using the modeling tool. We then iterate through those. I would like to use it, but it was a little clunky when they first rolled it out. Overall, it's more about the company having room for improvement. What they need to do is to consolidate more of their products. For example, I was just looking and I couldn't figure out what erwin DT is. It's on the website but it would help if they could put information together and make it more clear as to what products they have and how they work with other things. I hear them talking in the support forums and, when I talk to the representative, they say they're going to do a bunch of stuff but it seems the progress is slow. The changes they need to make are to take their old, legacy product, which we use, and focus a lot on it so they can transform it into a modern cloud tool so that we have fewer little pieces to deal with. They could also fix their security model. It's very confusing to get new people onto the tool and to make sure that your content isn't being exposed to the wrong people.

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Pros

"The API is pretty straightforward."

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

"The product enables the users to automate the processes and provides a good user experience."

"With the appropriate governance framework, properly trained business analysts can be empowered to design and build business solutions themselves."

"I like that Bizagi is fully compatible with BPMN 2.0. It also eases the way in which we work with BPMN 2.0 itself, which is a comprehensive and rather complex notation standard."

"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 solution's simulation capabilities are the most valuable aspects."

"Bizagi is really great for beginners because it's user-friendly and you can learn in it quickly, whereas other similar software are harder."

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"Erwin has enabled us to build and manage a portfolio of over 1,000 large data models across more than 60 lines of business, many of which are related and synchronized."

"Evolve is like a tank. You can do whatever you want with the solution, but you need to customize it. I think that it's not very aligned with the framework for enterprise architecture. MEGA is focused on these enterprise architectures, but it's only for that. With Evolve, you can do everything you want with professional services."

"We use erwin Evolve to publish to the website. This allows us to enable publishing our website using parameterisation features. In a very fast, quick way, we can publish a table or chart onto a website."

"The most valuable features for us are impact analysis, where I can easily visualize the impact of change."

"The ability to share and collaborate on the solution is its most valuable feature."

"You can use different kinds of diagrams to represent the architecture setting."

"I really liked that it mapped out processes and was able to attach the data model to the appropriate process. You could map out the process, then when you got down to a specific couple of data elements, you could attach the table in the database that supported that process. You could connect it with erwin Data Modeler for that."

"The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day."

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Cons

"The solution is a bit heavy on resources and has slowed down my computer."

"Governance is lacking, as with many easy-to-use tools. The scalability could be improved as well."

"For the small business, this is very bad because it is still fragmented. The licensing policy should be more flexible and small company oriented. In micro-small companies, there should only be one or two. That's not the problem. Maybe it is too flexible, there are so many pieces that you need to put together. When you have a small business, it can be a little complicated, not so easy."

"Bizagi has been aggressively adding features to maintain its market-leading position, however, in some cases, this has impacted the stability of certain product builds."

"Bizagi needs a way to define categories such as process groups like the APQC framework, PCF, and handle the processes within it."

"Enhancing data generation methods for easier printing and refining the file attachment and user interface to optimize usability."

"It needs some better notation functionality."

"Bizagi's UI should include shorter steps for documenting controls, documenting properties, changing some attributes in the object, and adding additional text."

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"The way that we are using it for application management, we have several KPIs. We want to follow and monitor them regarding a number of solutions. We cannot calculate this today. We would like real-time calculations along with the KPIs in order to improve the user experience. We would like the tool to be able to display this, not only as signals, but as charts."

"On upgrade– if the older models in the Workgroup Repository need to be upgraded, allow for a cascade update to newest version through the libraries."

"They need to develop Evolve's user experience. For example, MEGA has a useful client view that helps with impact analysis. MEGA provides information about the processes, services, infrastructure, and portfolio of applications in one central view. It lets you see the periphery and relationships among components. This view is impressive, and Evolve doesn't have it."

"With the Excel importing, the "up to date" part is the challenge. If we had a real-time integration, we could keep things up to date for whatever kinds of change points we had. With Excel, it is more that you have to export from one system then import it to another, so it's better for data that doesn't change that often."

"There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases."

"The solution needs to focus on allowing for more integrations."

"I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution."

"The solution's integration capabilities with other tools in our system has not been all that well done. We have people who use ARIS, who use System Architect and, of course, Visio. erwin has very limited ways to import and export from those kinds of tools. It's not a very easy thing to do."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For the prices, we didn't try a negotiations about licensing or pricing, but if i can say a word about this, I find Bizagi prices to be well thought out."

"Bizagi is totally free for modeling."

"It is on par with other BPM tools, but not as expensive as Pega nor Appian."

"It is expensive."

"From what I know of the market, I think Bizagi is a cheap solution for process engineering. Out of the solutions I've tried, from cheapest to most expensive, would be Vizor, Bizagi, Signavio, and then Siemens. I used a version of Bizagi that my university provided for free, so I have never paid for a license."

"We use the free version of the solution because the price is in dollars, making it expensive for where we are in Brazil."

"We didn't use the licensed versions where you could exactly go into automatization. However, we looked at the pricing in the beginning, and the only thing that I remember is that it was too expensive for the things we were using because our clients would also have to license the product. One client said that it was too expensive for the benefit they get out of it."

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

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"I estimate that we pay between $40,000 and $50,000 a year for the solution, not including the upfront costs to buy things the first time."

"On a yearly basis, our licensing costs are 50,000 euro. There are no additional costs because we are on a SaaS model."

"The licensing enables you to differentiate between people who edit the content and the people who consume it. We are able to keep the licensing costs down by keeping the "contributor" licenses to a minimum, and we then just roll out the content in a read-only version for the rest of our users."

"Unless you are a one person shop – always go with the Workgroup edition and Concurrent licensing."

"The cost is something like $15,000, per license. But I haven't looked at those numbers in three years. It was over $100,000 to initially set everything up and get it all configured."

"I think erwin is quite expensive. I have difficulty selling the portal, in fact."

"Yearly, our cost is €100,000."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Performing Arts

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	36

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	12

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?

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.

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erwin EA, erwin Business Process, erwin Enterprise Architecture

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

erwin Evolve provides comprehensive graphical support for handling large data models. It offers features such as metadata access, version control, and model comparison, enhancing operational reports and system analytics through its collaborative web-driven design.

erwin Evolve facilitates reverse engineering and database integration, fostering collaboration and process exploration through its web interface. Customizable and easy to configure, it supports workflow configuration and architectural modeling. Users can utilize its capabilities for developing industry models, managing transformation programs, and presenting standard operating procedures. Despite its strengths, there are demands for improved integration, enhanced UML support, and a more modern user experience. Users also express challenges with legacy system updates and call for better connectors and collaborative features.

What are the key features of erwin Evolve?

Graphical Support for Large Data Models: Provides visualization capabilities for complex data structures.
Metadata Access via API: Allows integration and management of metadata across platforms.
Version Control and Model Comparison: Enhances tracking and analysis of model changes.
Collaborative Web Interface: Facilitates teamwork and process exploration remotely.
Architectural Modeling: Supports the design and configuration of enterprise architecture.

What are the benefits and ROI of using erwin Evolve?

Customization and Ease of Configuration: Reduces setup time and adapts to specific organizational workflows.
Enhanced Accessibility and Mobile Usability: Offers access to critical information on the go.
Operational Reports Creation: Generates insights and facilitates informed decision-making.
System Analytics Handling: Provides robust tools for analyzing system performance and integration.

Data-driven organizations in sectors like finance and healthcare implement erwin Evolve for data warehousing, enterprise architecture, and business process modeling. They leverage its capabilities for cataloging architectural elements, linking to CMDBs, analyzing system interfaces, and describing business processes. Utilization extends to IT solution registration, business capability planning, and strategic modeling, with frequent deployments on cloud platforms to support transformation initiatives.

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Sample Customers

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

AT&T, Bank of America, Chevron, Duke University, ESPN, Fidelity, GE, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG, McGraw Hill, NASA, Pfizer, Royal Bank of Scotland, Teradata, Union Pacific, Vodafone, Wells Fargo.

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