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."The user interface is easy to work with."
"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."
"We use the product for modeling, conducting process checks, doing process flow, running, and analyzing the report."
"The support team is very responsive."
"It's really fast. It's much faster compared to Enterprise Architect."
"The most valuable feature of Visio is diagram creation. If you have a presentation, you can create your data model using Visio."
"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."
"The diagramming and swimlane features allow for separating business functions."
"Good interface and good tool configuration."
"The scalability is good. We can reuse it as a model. It can be modified."
"If you are a knowledgeable individual, the initial setup isn't too difficult."
"It is pretty easy to use if you are looking for this type of solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We face problems when the product's capacity is increased."
"The support team takes a long time to respond to our queries."
"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."
"You can have a collaboration feature, but it's necessary to have ARIS Connect which is a separate, costly product."
"The product is not flexible."
"The price could be lower because it is too expensive in South America when paying in dollars or euros."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
"We need the place and route capability for the lines when we have a database. I use it for architectures, and between the boxes, there are lines or interfaces from one tool to another. I wish those lines could be easily drawn without having to place them mechanically. I wish that there was some kind of place and route capability, so I just press a button, and all the lines get drawn."
"The auto-routing feature could be better."
"The platform has limitations in managing aspects like repositories."
"Inventory feature could be improved."
"It's not the easiest software to use. It's not user-friendly out-of-the-box."
"I would like to be able to present diagrams in multiple ways, such as a Swimlane diagram."
ARIS Architect and Designer is ranked 19th in Business Process Design with 6 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 100 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 Lucidchart. See our ARIS Architect and Designer vs. Visio report.
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