We performed a comparison between Avolution ABACUS 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."The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed."
"It's more than just an enterprise architecture tool as it has a lot of nice features, e.g. messaging, simulation, etc."
"You can design using a diagram tool installed on your desktop, a key difference from other vendors."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key."
"There are a lot of different features, but the business/decision-maker feature, visibility, and dashboards are most valuable."
"If you face new challenges or issues then you can dynamically customize according to the business needs."
"There are plenty of features available such as the ability to test applications for issues and a user-friendly dashboard."
"The ease of modeling and the ease of showing interconnectivity and relationships is the most valuable. It is fairly simple and out of the box. It is customizable in many ways. It is a pretty good tool."
"It is a standard and easy-to-use solution from Microsoft, and you benefit from the general functions of Microsoft solutions. It integrates easily with SharePoint, which is a useful tool from Microsoft."
"What I like best about Visio is that it's flexible. Sometimes, if I need to draw quickly, I use Microsoft PowerPoint, but if I need icons, which Visio has, I use Visio. I also like that the solution gives me a much more powerful range of options."
"The solution makes it very easy to make exciting pictures and designs. Everything is very intuitive and simple to figure out."
"The most valuable feature of Visio is diagram creation. If you have a presentation, you can create your data model using Visio."
"It is pretty easy to use if you are looking for this type of solution."
"Visio is easy to use."
"I like the solution's ease of use and its the integration with different templates from a variety of manufacturers."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The usability of the tool is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The most valuable features are the catalog and the diagram."
"If they want to expand in the European market then they are going to have to improve their technical support."
"Having more control over page size is lacking in this product. Print utilization also needs to be improved."
"Avolution ABACUS has the drawback of needing data filtering at the development level, unlike some tools that offer filtering at deployment. Two areas where Avolution ABACUS could be improved are regional support and flexibility in model selection. Sometimes, it's challenging to access support or updates in certain regions, which can slow down progress. Additionally, it would be beneficial if the tool allowed more flexibility in selecting multiple models within a single unit."
"Their local presence in the Middle East could be scaled more, particularly in customer service. It would be good if they'd also have mobile dashboards for executive management out of the box."
"I use reference models, which are taxonomies, in my EA work. It is a reference model/taxonomy of things with capabilities, sub capabilities, and sub-sub capabilities, so you're working it down. I haven't yet found a simple way to implement that in Abacus. It could be that it is there, but I don't know how to do it."
"While this is one of the most powerful tools on the market it does not integrate well with Microsoft Office or others."
"The user interface could be more robust."
"The price could be lower because it is too expensive in South America when paying in dollars or euros."
"There are some issues in Visio with the connectors, and it gets tricky when you want to connect objects with each other."
"I would like to see better integration with external data sources."
"When I create an organization chart in Visio, and I want to show it to management, I shouldn't have to copy and paste it into a PowerPoint presentation or put it into a PDF file."
"Lacks the ability to analyze the different relations between activities, positions and roles."
"Integration with other software would be an area of improvement, so that it's not just used to document but also as a center plane for information sharing."
"I would like to be able to present diagrams in multiple ways, such as a Swimlane diagram."
Avolution ABACUS is ranked 8th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 14 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 100 reviews. Avolution ABACUS is rated 8.0, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Avolution ABACUS writes " An out of the box tool that creates reports on the fly that can help your client make better decisions". 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". Avolution ABACUS is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, MEGA HOPEX, ARIS BPA and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and Lucidchart.
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