Bizagi Modeler vs Engage Process

Bizagi Modeler is a business process modeling tool for creating, documenting, simulating, publishing, and sharing processes with BPMN. It supports BPMN process diagrams and value chain diagrams, and can import Microsoft Visio, XPDL, Bizagi, XML, and BPMN files. Documentation can be exported to formats including PDF, Word, Excel, web, SharePoint, and Wiki. The free plan includes process simulation and what-if scenarios, unlimited processes and models, and one user, with local storage. Enterprise adds comments on diagrams and shapes, an activity stream, unlimited editors and contributors, and a cloud repository with storage defined according to customer needs. Enterprise customers can choose a data location from ten data centers across the United States, Europe, and Asia. The maker says its cloud service encrypts network traffic and is monitored around the clock by its Cloud Operations team. Bizagi Modeler runs on the web and Windows. Plans are free or Enterprise with pricing on request; Bizagi also provides a user guide, video tutorials, and a community for questions and issue reports.

Engage Process is a process management platform for mapping and analysing processes to support organisational improvement. Its Modeler uses drag-and-drop tools to design current and future process maps, checks syntax and provides calculations and side-by-side comparisons for assessing proposed changes. AI import can turn documents containing process descriptions or images into maps. Teams can import BPMN 2.0 maps from applications such as BPMOne and Microsoft Visio, then export maps to BPMN, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF. Publishing a process from Modeler to Viewer creates a digital handbook with work instructions, details and hyperlinks to the organisation’s IT environment. Subscriptions include unlimited Azure data storage and support by phone or email. The company says the Modeler is hosted in Microsoft Azure and displays an ISO 27001 Certified badge. Engage Process runs on Android, iOS, web and Windows, and supports single sign-on when included. A free 30-day Modeler trial is available. Modeler Professional costs $78 a month for one user; Modeler Team costs $119 a month for three accounts, with one user logged in at a time.