We performed a comparison between ARIS Architect and Designer and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use the product for modeling, conducting process checks, doing process flow, running, and analyzing the report."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"It's really fast. It's much faster compared to Enterprise Architect."
"The support team is very responsive."
"One of the most valuable features is how user-friendly ARIS is, compared to other BPM tools. This tool has very diverse types of assets available. ARIS also has a lot of customizable options, different model types, object types, a number of attributes, and a lot of customization is possible. In comparison, Signavio is very limited in terms of model types and object types. So these customizations ARIS offers are really valuable to any client who wants to create a BPM repository."
"The most important feature is ARIS's ability to turn a process design into data to analyze anything you want. For example, we have some analysis reports in ARIS that can guide us when we want to change a system. It shows us how this change will affect all of the organization's processes."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"It's very agile and user friendly with a lot of templates."
"This is a very straightforward product and I don't think that anything needs to be simplified."
"The ability to visualize a workflow is certainly an advantage over just tracking a process in something like Excel."
"Visio makes it easy to communicate your ideas from several areas of your imagination across several domains."
"Visio is outstanding because it has features that are useful for project management."
"I haven't needed to reach out to technical support the entire time I've used the product. It's very basic and very simple, and therefore I've never run into any issues I haven't been able to deal with personally."
"The product is stable."
"You can have a collaboration feature, but it's necessary to have ARIS Connect which is a separate, costly product."
"This product could be improved by lowering the licensing cost. More organizations could use ARIS if they slashed the licensing costs even a little bit."
"The simulation part still has some way to go. It's a good feature, and it's something that other vendors don't have right now, but it can still be improved. Some features are needed in ARIS Architect, so advanced users can do things through drag-and-drop functionality."
"The product is not flexible."
"The support team takes a long time to respond to our queries."
"We face problems when the product's capacity is increased."
"The design and the look and feel, need to be improved."
"Inventory feature could be improved."
"It would be nice if there is a database behind it. We have looked into this functionality, but all of the other solutions that have a database are very locked down, and you have to use them their way. You can't define your own stuff. For example, we have a system X, and I want to define system X myself and have it available. If I am ever going to make a change to system X, I want to pull up all the drawings that are associated with system X. I want to be able to search and pull all those drawings. Visio should have the ability to capture metrics associated with each step in the process. For example, based on a specific time, I should be able to link the data to a spreadsheet, which is kind of like the data analysis on the process."
"Searching for specific templates within the program can be difficult. For example, if I need a template for an electrical diagram with certain symbols, it can be challenging to find it."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"The platform has limitations in managing aspects like repositories."
"The solution could improve by making it more modern."
"The improvement I want to see in Visio is being able to edit it more quickly, particularly when pulling it out of another software and then editing it on that non-Visio software. Currently, the process affects the overall performance because it's not as quick as I want it to be."
ARIS Architect and Designer is ranked 19th in Business Process Design with 6 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. ARIS Architect and Designer is rated 7.6, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ARIS Architect and Designer writes "The solution is stable and has a responsive support team, but it is not flexible, and exporting data is difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visio writes "A software for drawing a variety of diagrams which include flowcharts, org charts, building plans, floor plans, data flow diagrams". ARIS Architect and Designer is most compared with ARIS Cloud, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and erwin Data Modeler by Quest, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our ARIS Architect and Designer vs. Visio report.
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