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."It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"ARIS has a good collaboration function. You create a portal where any authorized users can work on the models. There are simple flows for making and approving changes."
"The whole ARIS BPM solution is a bit special, because from the very beginning it was targeted more to Business users and the Management."
"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."
"The matrix model makes building relations easier."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"One of the things that I like is the automation from external data."
"Architecture modeling software with satisfactory standard features. It's also stable and effective in facilitating communication with others."
"If you are a knowledgeable individual, the initial setup isn't too difficult."
"I enjoy the fact that I can go into detail with Visio. In shared communications, I can inspect for any fault in my processes."
"It's a very meat and potatoes type of product and isn't overly designed. It's very easy to find your way through the solution, as it's not too complicated."
"It is a useful tool to map data flows, network objects, and computer science technology and show to clients. It does what I need it to do. It's a tool I've used the longest, so I know it the best, and that's probably the claim to fame."
"It's a very flexible solution."
"The fact that you could program in VBA is most valuable."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"The standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"Areas for improvement include sales, prospecting, shopping, customer service, after-sales (claims and advice for the client), and all processes pertaining to customer loyalty."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"The improvement I want to see in Visio is being able to edit it more quickly, particularly when pulling it out of another software and then editing it on that non-Visio software. Currently, the process affects the overall performance because it's not as quick as I want it to be."
"Sometimes, there is a little bit of a learning curve with it, especially while doing complex network diagrams and getting the lines to snap the way you want them and not overlap or be confusing. It would be great if there was a built-in tutorial. It is not that you can't YouTube, but it would be nice if they gave you some free training. I've been using it forever, but every now and then, I got to do something complicated with it and I wonder how do I do that again. Maybe they do have such information, and I don't know. I have not done research on it because a bunch of people work for me, and some of them are better at it than I am, so I just ask them to do this for me."
"The simulation is an area that requires improvement."
"Its integration with other vendors can be better and support for other formats. For example, when we import a JPEG, we cannot customize it. Similarly, we can't utilize the BPML kind of diagrams."
"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 user interface could be simplified and easier to use."
"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 traceability. It doesn't have it. You cannot find one object amongst several sheets of Visio diagrams."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 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, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda 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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