Bizagi vs Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect comparison

Bizagi and Sparx Systems are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bizagi is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4, while Sparx Systems is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1. Bizagi holds a 10.5% mindshare in BPD, compared to Sparx Systems’s 10.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Bizagi users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Sparx Systems users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bizagi and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect compete in the business process management and enterprise architecture space. Based on the evaluation, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect appears to have an upper hand due to its comprehensive suite and support for various standards.

Features: Bizagi offers intuitive modeling and process automation, ideal for teams without extensive technical backgrounds, with notable features including rapid development, BPMN 2.0 compliance, and integration capabilities. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect provides a comprehensive suite that covers UML and BPMN, suitable for detailed enterprise architecture and modeling, with strong simulation abilities and support for TOGAF and ArchiMate.

Room for Improvement: Bizagi needs improvement in stability and support speed, as well as in handling large projects and better integration with RPA tools. It also lacks comprehensive case management. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect faces challenges with usability due to its steep learning curve, along with the need for better reporting functions and a more intuitive interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bizagi supports on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid deployments, offering flexibility but receiving mixed reviews on customer service due to slow response times unless paid support is utilized. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect offers similar deployment options and receives high satisfaction for its technical support, although access can initially be challenging.

Pricing and ROI: Bizagi offers a free modeler with tiered pricing for advanced features, though some users are concerned about its costs. It delivers good ROI through process automation. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect presents competitive pricing with significant value for its comprehensive functionality, allowing modular pricing to tailor investments, making it economically feasible for extensive enterprise modeling.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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)

Sparx Systems Enterprise Ar...

Ranking in Business Process Design

3rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (2nd)

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 Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is 10.9%, down from 12.7% 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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Milan Sterba

Senior Enterprise Architect at Deepview S.r.o.

Efficient documentation generation through organized model structure with a good price-performance ratio

Whenever I begin a new project with Sparx, I have to spend time training people on how to use it since it is not straightforward. Although it's a powerful product with plenty of features, it's not easy for even experienced users to find their way without guidance. This is not the most user-friendly solution.

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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 most valuable feature is the simulation."

"BPMN 2.0 compliance, while you model the processes, the system can detect your notation errors."

"One of the features I like is that when drawing any task, when putting a task on the process model canvas, I can simply click on it and see the other task icons for that task. It's just one quick, simple, straightforward connectivity from task to task."

"The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products."

"Your team can work on it having basic training about databases and BPM modeling."

"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."

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

"I like the business process management engine. It's very detailed, and you can probably map any of the corporate workflow processes you come across in it compared to some of the other solutions out there. I can probably say that it has very good support to work in tandem with other RP solutions in the market. The software is still very user-friendly and integral, and they have pretty good online resources. The automation feature is pretty good, so is the integration feature."

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"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."

"The solution saved a lot of time, about 30%."

"Artifact templates are most valuable."

"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports multiple modeling languages like ArchiMate for database design, software lifecycle visualization, and team management."

"I like that there is support for software patterns."

"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."

"Automated document generation is a real time saver, no more cut and paste, no more keeping track of which diagrams are in which reports, no more last minute update panics. Just click a mouse and you've got an up to date report."

"The initial setup is easy."

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Cons

"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."

"Difficult to export in formats other than PDF."

"The data in Excel that comes out after running the simulation is a bit complicated sometimes to interpret."

"I'm not really satisfied with the reporting aspect."

"The solution needs to make it easier to use RPA products on it. They may need an RPA specific interface. It would be better than having to make an RPA tool to use for viewing. Most of our work is about making RPA tools with the Bizagi, not using Bizagi itself."

"I would like to see the automation process included in the next release."

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

"Can be difficult for new users."

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"The Portfolio Management features can be added in the next release. As it helps you to manage more portfolio of projects and architectures of cost projects on a portfolio level. This would be an important feature in the next release."

"Not visually appealing."

"The Business Process Modeling or BPM feature can be improved to make it more interactive and user friendly because it is a tool for technical people. My current use is only for business process modeling notation and putting in the icons etc. You need to take them in as a class, which makes things very complex. Because of this complexity, it is not an easy-to-handle solution. Enterprise Architect is not very good for mockups. We cannot create user screens and other similar kinds of stuff, which is bad. For these things, we prefer to use Axure RP and other similar solutions. They should either remove this feature from this product or provide some kind of connectivity with Axure RP so that people can do better mockups of screens and import them. They need to augment and strengthen the BPM feature, which is the main feature. They need to put in some elements like artificial intelligence and augmented reality. They should look into such features because these things are coming up."

"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."

"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."

"There used to be that feature in ArchiMate Modeling of Enterprise Architect called inherited relationships. Now it's gone."

"The window froze for five or ten seconds. You can click and click again and it takes a second to come up. It might have been specific to a version."

"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not expensive."

"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."

"Make sure that your requirements are explicitly defined from the outset. This will help you choose the right setup and licensing for your needs."

"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."

"This solution would be expensive for a company that has a lot of users."

"The modeler itself is free. For the whole BPM suite, there are other options that may be better."

"I'm trying the free unlimited version with unlimited use. But you have to pay to add some features."

"The price could be lower."

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"It is cheaper than other solutions. Its cost is around $686 per year. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"Use floating licenses strategically."

"Pricing and licensing are suitable even for small companies."

"In terms of cost, Sparx EA is probably one of the cheapest tools I have ever used."

"There is no license required for this solution."

"Pricing and licensing is very attractive, simple, and straightforward."

"The Corporate Edition, or one of the bundles, is the way to go."

"There is a license for this solution. When comparing this solution to others it is priced well."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?

The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?

One of the reasons many public sector institutions in the Czech Republic use it is that it provides a very good price-performance ratio. While it might be cumbersome to learn, it still delivers exc...

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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

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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is an enterprise solution that helps streamline, accelerate, and integrate software, system, and business development. With this intuitive modeling and design solution, enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, enable collaboration, support their teams and colleagues, and manage complex projects. Software architects, business analysts, project managers, developers, support staff, and testers can unite under a single repository. Through numerous view points and potential sub-systems, users are offered a unified view in a complex environment.

With Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, users are also offered a shared model option which can be accessed quickly and securely by in-office and remote team members through the Enterprise Architect’s Pro Cloud Server. Building a coherent, verifiable model can be done by connecting and integrating a variety of behavioral and structural information in visual form. As a result, Enterprise Architect offers high performance, flexibility, and the ability to model, manage, and trace every stage of the business development and modeling process.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Features

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect assists in creating a unified and accessible vision in business development by offering a flexible platform with a unique set of rich features. These features include:

Test and debug - Streamline software development and visualize software with the simulation process. Users can test and confirm correct behavior, set and oversee test points, and debug and examine software.

Track tasks - Track, prioritize, and assign individual and group tasks to assist in the model’s development. Users can visually monitor their progress through the Gantt chart.

Open standards - Users can visualize and analyze running software with integrated custom tools. They can also run advanced simulations, team-based repositories, testing tools, and version control. In addition, the solution supports enterprise architecture frameworks such as UPDM and TOGAF.

Simulation - Create and debug embedded solutions by simulating behaviors and state models. Users can specify events, triggers, constraints, and more. Users can also specify extensive and complex structural systems and create custom domain-specific solutions.

Reviews from Real Users

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect merges high-end tools, online availability, a dedication to open standards, and accessible pricing so enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, whether remote or in-office. Users particularly like the architectural frameworks and the scalability.

Marc L., a principal architecture enterprise solution adviser at Cronomagic Canada, notes, "The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."

An enterprise architect at a manufacturing company writes, "Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."

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

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