We performed a comparison between SAP PowerDesigner and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."SAP PowerDesigner is an excellent tool that does what I need it to do. What I like most about it is that it's stable, fast, and easy to understand."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product."
"It allows us to have proper documentation in terms of the databases."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a very fast reverse engineering process. It does a very expansive comparison."
"The feature I found valuable in SAP PowerDesigner is extraction. I also like that my company hasn't faced any issues because of the clear documentation about SAP PowerDesigner."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"The thing I like most about Visio is the stencils. As the product has matured over time, it comes with more stencils and objects that you can just pick out of the menu and go with."
"Putting details into the process flow and being able to link other objects into the diagrams are very helpful features."
"The most valuable feature of this product is its versatility."
"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."
"The fact that you could program in VBA is most valuable."
"The product efficiently visualizes various business processes, including building and networking architecture."
"We are all familiar with it, and it is easy to use. There is a lot of flexibility, and you can add shapes if you want."
"It is easy to learn and implement."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"In the future, I would like to see data manipulation capability where you can actually write SQL queries and manipulate data from directly within the tool."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by making it more modern."
"The product's installation phase can be a difficult process if you don't have the deployment script with you since it is very important to know what you are doing when you are dealing with the setup process."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex for me."
"The behavior of the interface can sometimes be unpredictable."
"I would like to see included in the next release is the implementation of web publishing."
"From my perspective, Visio could probably add more help guidelines for users, and I would prefer to see more intuitive user interfaces to help with dragging and dropping, using the right components, etc."
"I would like to see better integration with external data sources."
"It's a very large install that uses many gigabytes."
SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 33 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Difficult to operate, long process to publish, but scalable". 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". SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, IDERA ER/Studio, LeanIX and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and MEGA HOPEX.
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