We performed a comparison between IBM Blueworks Live 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 if from your mobile device or you can be on the desktop. It doesn't matter. You are always connected. It is cloud-based, so you don't have to install anything."
"The reporting that we can generate from IBM Blueworks Live has been interesting. We found the KPIs, risks, process modeling, format, and colors, to be very good. We use the EY template and it is interesting to generate reporting in this format."
"The business process discovery is excellent. The diagram or blueprinting functionality of the solution are very good. It's quite easy. You can link the sub-processes and get a big overview of the whole process then."
"I like the two-tiered approach, that is, discover and then drill down to the main steps. You can right click and attach risk, policies, and much more. It is a user-friendly solution."
"Valuable features include real-time modeling and design work, the ability to perform workshops with clients in real-time with the tool, and getting instant output."
"It's very easy, very quick to create a process map. It has templates. The look and feel is very nice. What we want to achieve out of the process map, we can achieve it using Blueworks."
"For me the most valuable feature is that it's one depository for our bank. So it's not like everybody has their critical processes on SharePoint or on their desktops. Everything is centrally located. It's very intuitive, easy to use. The support that I get from IBM is always great."
"It enables decisions based upon processes that we do model, and ultimately move forward with."
"The product efficiently visualizes various business processes, including building and networking architecture."
"Installing Visio is straightforward."
"Visio has improved my workflow by making it easy to create charts, diagrams, and basic illustrations that I can use in my client reports and proposals. It has saved me a lot of time I would otherwise spend creating visuals for clients by hand."
"The most valuable feature is that it is integrated with other tools in the Microsoft Office suite, as well as at the backend with products like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams."
"A lot of built-in templates are really phenomenal. They cut down the time when you're trying to get something out. They reduce the complexity that technical folks like to put into things that have to be given to technical folks."
"One of the things that I like is the automation from external data."
"Visio is a very easy tool in general, making it easy for anyone to understand."
"The solution makes it very easy to make exciting pictures and designs. Everything is very intuitive and simple to figure out."
"We would like the ability to add additional custom colors. We would like to color additional items to add notes to the blueprint."
"The initial setup is neither straightforward nor complex however you do need to know what you are doing."
"There should be an option to import from and export to Microsoft Visio. Being able to move files back and forth between Blueworks Live and Visio would be good."
"The user interface is quite easy at first but process analysts soon run into roadblocks of limited functionality, which is disappointing."
"Some of the import functionality was a bit restrictive, in terms of loading data in from other data sources. Something as simple as Excel, loading data tables from Excel, wasn't great. And vice-versa. Some of the export and import functionality with something like Visio - which, I know it's a slightly different tool - but being able to work seamlessly with those other tool sets would've been quite useful. I know it was something that was in the pipeline to be looked at. So that would be useful."
"The solution is a very basic discovery product so it doesn't have that much modeling capability. This can be improved."
"Sometimes, the tool is automatic, which can complicate it, but once you're accustomed to manipulating it, you can use it very effectively."
"It is BPMN-compliant but the tool needs to be more involved to get into a completely 2.0 oriented tool. It has a few things but it's not the complete BPMN model."
"The auto-routing feature could be better."
"The solution should have better integration capabilities with MacOS and Linux."
"It can be complex. If you don't know a little bit about it, it can get really confusing."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"Its support team could be well-equipped with the required information."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It's been fine so far."
"Portability from Visio to PowerPoint and vice versa could be simplified."
IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. IBM Blueworks Live is rated 8.2, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". 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". IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud, Camunda and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, SAP Signavio Process Manager and Lucidchart. See our IBM Blueworks Live vs. Visio report.
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