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 can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."
"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 am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."
"It helps the business make an informed decision."
"The ability to sort via multiple criteria to identify the relationships you need for a specific object."
"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."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"Visio has allowed us to create good diagrams for our technical employees to consume. The solution provides templates, is straightforward, and has tools for the easy creation of diagrams."
"The usability in general is good. The integration of uploading custom stencils is also very nice."
"I haven't needed to reach out to technical support the entire time I've used the product. It's very basic and very simple, and therefore I've never run into any issues I haven't been able to deal with personally."
"The tools tab within Visio has been amazingly useful, and it is updated quite frequently. Along with how Visio handles components and everything else, I would call it an easy-to-use tool."
"The fact that it's on-premises allows you to get fantastic speed. It's got a faster response rate, it doesn't lag, and it doesn't have any latency when you're working on it."
"The interface of the solution is very good. It's easy to navigate."
"A good designation feature."
"The product efficiently visualizes various business processes, including building and networking architecture."
"The solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
"If you want to create new reports then you have to use JavaScript, or ARIS script as they call it, which is beyond the competencies of most people."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved and the initial setup should be made easy."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"If you look at ARIS, for example, or Signavio, the flowchart combines all the details and with the click of a button I can create a process manager. That would be something that Visio could add. It would cut my workload in half."
"Indeed, Visio should progress beyond its current stage of solely drawing diagrams and transition into a more advanced phase, possibly integrating with different packages or aligning with Microsoft's offerings. It could potentially evolve into a comprehensive business process management solution, comparable to tools like Addis or Signavio, thereby competing in the realm of process management tools. It might be advantageous to explore functionalities such as process simulations or benchmarking, introducing simulators to discern potential bottlenecks or errors within complex flow diagrams. This addition would prove valuable for business analysts seeking insights into the intricacies of their diagrams, aligning with the evolving trends observed over the past six years."
"Something that needs to improve, is the interface interaction with other tools."
"The price could be better."
"There could be better integration between Visio and Word, especially when it comes to importing graphics from the one to the other."
"Lacks stencils for new technologies in the solution."
"It's not the easiest software to use. It's not user-friendly out-of-the-box."
"The solution could improve by making it more modern."
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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