We performed a comparison between Camunda 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."The most valuable feature is the scheduling."
"The integration with almost any language, product, and even human tasks, is valuable. It's very seamless to integrate into existing systems. It doesn't require you to rewrite a lot of your existing system. That's where it really stands out."
"When I compare it with other BPM tools, like IBM, it is great, open source, and free when you use the community version."
"It's user friendly, much better than most tools I have seen."
"Camunda is a scalable product."
"The most valuable features are that it's lightweight, can be embedded in existing Java code, and keeps track of the workflow state and the instances that we need."
"I think that the positives of Camunda Platform are that our customers can start with the free version. I think it is the most important."
"The graphical interface is very beneficial."
"The main reason I choose Visio is that it is easy to use. The user interface is familiar and straightforward. Additionally, it offers a variety of templates, such as those for Cisco solutions, which make it easy to create diagrams for specific use cases. For example, we use a Cisco Meraki switch and we can find the exact template for it, then we can easily drop in the components and connect the cables to create the diagram."
"The most valuable feature of Visio is the credential management, endpoint manager, and active directory for Microsoft Azure for our hybrid infrastructure. Additionally, there are plenty of features available."
"The valuable feature about Visio is it has all the basic tools for creating processes."
"What I like the most is the simplicity and ease of usage."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The product provides a lot of flexibility in writing graphs and customizing them."
"Visio makes it easier than with other tools to do such tasks as changing things or coming up with one's own visual style for presentation purposes."
"I find the control flow and settings features valuable."
"Without a proper frontend, the business cannot effectively use the platform."
"The documentation could use improvement."
"The GUI needs to be improved, with more configuration options."
"Camunda Platform's customer support could be improved because their response is quite slow."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"Initial setup can be quite complex."
"An improvement would be to support Angular 2 instead of AngularJS, which is quite old."
"I think it would be important to internationalize the Cockpit and the Admin as well as with the Tasklist."
"The solution should be included in Microsoft Office 365. For some reason, it's not. It should be bundled in with everything else."
"There are too many features."
"There is a limitation in Visio."
"The platform has limitations in managing aspects like repositories."
"I would like to see traceability. It doesn't have it. You cannot find one object amongst several sheets of Visio diagrams."
"System architecture could be improved."
"It should natively enable importing diagrams or reference architectures from any of the vendors whose solutions are used by the customer or proposed by solution providers such as DXC"
"As a user, it, unfortunately, lacks recognition by Microsoft products."
Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 68 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". 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". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and ARIS BPA, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and erwin Data Modeler by Quest. See our Camunda vs. Visio report.
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