Mac OSX compatibility

[Orbicule]

Dear Bizagi and members,

I believe that a osx port may benefit your products. Many students in my classroom work on a mac and have to use parallels or bootcamp to use your software.

Anyone else?

[BizAgi Xpress Support]

Dear Orbicule,
Thank you very much for your interest in BizAgi.

We will take your suggestion into consideration for a future version.

Best regards,
BizAgi Xpress Support.

[localheinz]

You definitely should take this into consideration.

I'm currently using a Microsoft product (unfortunately) to connect to a remote Windows desktop on which I use Bizagi to create models of processes. It's not fun, really, and I don't want to work on a Windows machine and I won't install Parallels or Wine either.

I didn't get a Mac to run Windows on it.

[hemmerling@gmx.net]

1)
You should definitely THINK about your (paying) customers if they REALLY have production systems on MacOSX, which REQUIRE a business process engine.

Where there is no need for a business process engine, why should there be a need for a business process modeler ( which is just a free gift ) ?

So do you really see your customers want to use the commercial BPengine on MacOSX, with what applications & use cases ?

2)
Especially if your software base can´t be transfered easily to Linux, why should you have a try with MacOSX which is a BSD Unix ?

So if there was no Linux solution, why should you NOW try to create a MacOSX solution, just because iPhone ( not Desktop Mac! ) is so popular ?!

3)
Please CONCENTRATE on your main topics & main unique selling propositions ( USPs )!

So if you are stuck on Windows, please accept this.

4)
With new rendering & GUI framework technologies, you might have a try to make a product which runs everywhere ( WIndows, Linux, MacOSX, Android which differs much from a just-LInux, Win8Phone-Metro / iPhone/iPad which require different GUI than the corresponding desktop PC platforms ) don´t know much products or frameworks which allow this,

and especially if this technology is not the base for your application,
such a move would cause a total recoding... without any benefit for the WIndows users.

5)
But be warned that there are already competitors which enable the customers to do all BPMN / EPK modeling in an Internet browser, with a SAAS - Cloud server-based application ( Some or even all of all of these competitor - at least in your product-cost class - just have no business process engine.. though a server-based process engine - on the customer's server of course, mostly not on a SAAS - Cloud Internet server - is the real bargain if you take the burden to do business process modeling)

If you don´t wanna go this way to move to a Total-Browser-Solution ( would be intersting of course, though ) - then please stay on Windows, or you are LOST due to much work without benefit for anybody.

6)
Btw, if you could integrate your products - both modeler and engine - on a platform like SalesForce as paid Third-Party Services hosted by Salesforce ( and I mean SalesForce as #1 SAAS-Cloud business application platform ), this might be a real breakthrough - as then the SAAS-Cloud based engine would call other SAAS-Cloud services but which are not on another remote slow internet server, but on the SAME cloud farm, so accessable as fast on a local company datacenter.
Sincerely
Rolf

[BizAgi Xpress Support]

Dear Rolf,
Thank you for your feedback.

Indeed we gladly receive all these valuable ideas and observations from the community. Then, from this suggestions list we analyze the value of actually implementing a possible new feature.

We still have no approximation about a version for Mac or Linux, but it is something we need to analyze thoroughly mainly because this is something that gets asked for frequently, and grows everyday.

You off course mention some important things which we will keep in mind as well, and we will keep you posted about this.
Rest assured we are doing our best to stay focused on USP.

Best regards,
Bizagi BPM Suite Support.