"The most valuable feature is being able to export to Microsoft Project."
"It is ideal for putting out flowcharts and swim charts. It's really good. It has all the various options to use, particularly depending on what kind of audience you have. It provides you different kinds of options to insert the pictures and explain things."
"It is very easy for people to start using this tool, and we can import Visio templates that are already published by vendors such as Azure without any issue."
"Just the fact that a majority of the industry uses it, and you've got third-party templates that were created."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Visio is a very easy tool in general, making it easy for anyone to understand."
"Putting details into the process flow and being able to link other objects into the diagrams are very helpful features."
"What I like about it is that the templates are easily findable and usable, and they are usually created for other software packages. It seems to be pretty much widely adopted in the industry."
"The product is stable."
"Since I have been using such an old version, most of the improvements have already been made, but I would suggest moving forward with the times and creating a cloud-based solution for universal access."
"Occasionally, the automation feature that helps you easily add the "next step" goes crazy and it will move a bunch of stuff."
"The solution should be included in Microsoft Office 365. For some reason, it's not. It should be bundled in with everything else."
"Microsoft should include Visio as part of their Office 365 offering."
"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."
"It can be complex. If you don't know a little bit about it, it can get really confusing."
"The one particular thing which I would like to see improved is in comparison to other products in the market, and is still lacking in Visio, is publishing on a web application. For example, there is a freeware application business process modeling tool, Bizagi."
"The simulation is an area that requires improvement."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
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Mindjet MindManager is ranked 4th in Mind Mapping Software while Visio is ranked 1st in Mind Mapping Software with 101 reviews. Mindjet MindManager is rated 9.6, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Mindjet MindManager writes "An Easy to use tool for brainstorming and planning, compatible with Microsoft Project". 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". Mindjet MindManager is most compared with draw.io, Office 365, Atlassian Confluence and Lucidchart, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm and IBM Blueworks Live.
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