We performed a comparison between erwin Evolve by Quest 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."You can use different kinds of diagrams to represent the architecture setting."
"The most valuable features for us are impact analysis, where I can easily visualize the impact of change."
"There is a model behind it. It's really nice that the Evolve front-end, as it builds a website, keeps those relationships in mind. You can even go to a procedure and see all the applications that are related to it. Then you can go into that application and see all the standard operating procedures that that application is a part of. It's just very connected."
"Support for a broad range of data sources from relational to big data to the Cloud."
"I have not seen capabilities for web-sharing and interaction with the architecture from any other supplier. It's a great capability..."
"Evolve's reverse engineering ability is quite useful."
"The feature that stands out for me is the ease of configuring objects and the screens to show them. It's really easy to add a new type of object in this reference. Creating a new type of object, using it, and evolving it a little bit in terms of what we can document about it are the main features that made us decide to use this provider."
"Forward and reverse engineering were valuable features."
"Architecture modeling software with satisfactory standard features. It's also stable and effective in facilitating communication with others."
"The interface is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The valuable feature about Visio is it has all the basic tools for creating processes."
"What I like most about the solution is that It's quite easy to use."
"It works really well for flowcharting, it can label."
"It has a lot of great features."
"The fact that it's on-premises allows you to get fantastic speed. It's got a faster response rate, it doesn't lag, and it doesn't have any latency when you're working on it."
"Simple to use and very intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"I would like it to be easier to make changes and then deploy them into production, especially when you have multiple web servers or front-ends. It would be nice to make a change and then have it propagate to the production servers in a more automated fashion."
"If it had fewer features to model all kinds of architecture, it would be less complicated."
"They have improved the search engine a little bit but it can always be improved more. The more data you put inside it, the more you want to use it."
"I feel that the UML drawing capability needs to be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in the output of the solution."
"The solution needs to focus on allowing for more integrations."
"There could be better integration between Visio and Word, especially when it comes to importing graphics from the one to the other."
"I would like to be able to present diagrams in multiple ways, such as a Swimlane diagram."
"The solution's flexibility can be perceived as both a strength and a weakness."
"Lacks stencils for new technologies in the solution."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
"There are some issues in Visio with the connectors, and it gets tricky when you want to connect objects with each other."
"The user interface could be more robust."
"It thinks that it knows what you want to do, but it doesn't. It has a way of behaving that can be very frustrating from time to time. Either it moves things about because it thinks its placement should be at a certain place, or it's keeping track of things that you don't necessarily see, so it moves something elsewhere."
erwin Evolve by Quest is ranked 16th in Business Process Design with 19 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. erwin Evolve by Quest is rated 7.8, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of erwin Evolve by Quest writes "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". 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". erwin Evolve by Quest is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, erwin Data Modeler by Quest, IDERA ER/Studio and SAP PowerDesigner, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our Visio vs. erwin Evolve by Quest report.
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