We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA 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 want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"Aris BPA has a lot of tools that are more professional than Bizagi."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"Collaboration and governance over enterprise artifacts."
"Also, the UML parts have been improved very much in the last two years. And it's very powerful now to combine the BPMN and UML parts in the product, because you can make a connection between them, so that you have the right interoperability between them. So if you're doing data modeling, you can use your class diagram and bind that to the BPMN part."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"We can easily add templates to SharePoint for collaboration."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"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."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"One of the things that I like is the automation from external data."
"The model graphics can be exported in PDF, but the model is too small to read."
"Regarding stability, when there are any customized settings being done at customer end - post upgrade to newer versions - it makes the customer environment unstable for a short duration."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"In terms of improvement, the app could use some small details and functionalities."
"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"Integration with other applications need improvement. Having the functionality to integrate with databases will also make this solution better."
"As a user, it, unfortunately, lacks recognition by Microsoft products."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
"There are a lot of patches that sometimes change how one version will interact compared to another."
"I would like to see traceability. It doesn't have it. You cannot find one object amongst several sheets of Visio diagrams."
"It is not flexible in terms of functions and modeling deliverables. When you speak of processes, the program has to describe the activities and the deliverables. You have to tell your robots how to deal with and input something, and you should have something more flexible from this point of view."
"There are some issues in Visio with the connectors, and it gets tricky when you want to connect objects with each other."
"The behavior of the interface can sometimes be unpredictable."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 100 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". 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 BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and No Magic MagicDraw. See our ARIS BPA vs. Visio report.
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