We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Visual Paradigm 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."ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"In addition to our applications, we have also stored, in ARIS, the footprint of where those applications have been implemented. That means we know in which country a given application has been implemented. With embedded geolocation, we have a very visual world map, where we can see the footprint of each application."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"It helps to maintain a single source of truth regarding the processes followed within an organization."
"The tool defines the processes. It's the documentation of everything."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"It is easy and intuitive to use, not excessively rigid, and quite flexible."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Using the Component Diagram, Visual Paradigm helps with design and control, reusing components."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Paradigm is the ability to design form flows, add libraries, create organizational charts, and connect them all together."
"Visual Paradigm is super user-friendly, especially for new team members. I always have them start with it because the interface is so simple to pick up. They usually spend about six months to a year using only Visual Paradigm before moving on to other tools. We also use the cloud repository for collaborative work, but I've had some trouble with code reviewing and limitations. Sometimes, customers even request the source file or exported XML because it's easier for them to access and review."
"The solution is the best application for data modeling. It helps to architect business processes. Its best features are pricing and functionality."
"What I like best about Visual Paradigm is its simple GUI, especially since I'm a new user. In my two years of experience with this tool, I didn't find it complex because I was able to learn how to use it via YouTube videos. Visual Paradigm is enough for me. I also find the bridging feature in the tool valuable."
"I find it very user-friendly for my purposes, which is creating business process models that I can publish as HTML pages. It has worked flawlessly for my project, and my clients are able to utilize it as an internal web portal for their process documentation and other needs."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"One of the issues is, when you are defining databases, the way they use entities and relationship diagrams, the way we can define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve."
"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."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"The product is difficult to use for someone without prior knowledge of working with it. It requires a certain level of administration training."
"From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams."
"It's still early for me to comment since I've only been using it for two months, but the responsiveness when diagramming needs to be improved."
"I was looking to generate code from the diagrams, but it was not totally clear how to do it."
"There is room for improvement in the licensing model. I would suggest implementing country-specific pricing, as many other products in India do. This would make Visual Paradigm more affordable and accessible."
"For me, what needs improvement in Visual Paradigm is the limited features included in the $99 license, which is the cheapest option. If more features could be included in the cheapest licensing package, Visual Paradigm would be better, especially for businesses that have a limited budget for buying software."
"The user interface is not easy to navigate, so it should be made easier."
"Visual Paradigm could improve many aspects. The performance could be better because it can be low. When we have large and complicated models, it has a low speed and many bugs. Sometimes the solution stops and you have to restart Microsoft Windows on your PC. The larger database modeling cannot be done properly, I have to use another solution called SAP PowerDesigner."
"Takes up a lot of resources."
ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Visual Paradigm is ranked 7th in Business Process Design with 25 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Visual Paradigm is rated 8.0. 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 Visual Paradigm writes "Very flexible and easy to use with a good pricing model". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas Visual Paradigm is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, Lucidchart, Bizagi and Camunda. See our ARIS BPA vs. Visual Paradigm report.
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