We performed a comparison between SAP Signavio Process Manager 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 is possible to do the whole drafting process at the same time in Sagnavio so you don't have a double effort of writing it once, arranging it and entering it again."
"This functionality ("invite anyone for feedback") has substantially increased visibility over work-in-progress when it comes to process modelling and overall process management and it decreased the time spent on giving and receiving feedback through emails and through sharing screenshots/.ppt files/Visio files etc."
"The solution provides data mining and AI features."
"The most valuable feature for me is the collaboration point of view, where everybody has a single view, or source of truth, and everybody sees the same thing. Everyone can comment, contribute, and discuss the processes itself, which makes it easier to funnel down the most value adding comments and make the relevant changes to the processes. This leads to the next best iteration or version of your process."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Signavio Process Manager is the ability to do business process models."
"The product's most valuable feature is the transformation process."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The interface is very intuitive and includes a drag-and-drop function."
"Architecture modeling software with satisfactory standard features. It's also stable and effective in facilitating communication with others."
"I like all the features. I go online, and everything pops there. It is in the cloud, and everything is there. Even if there is a crash, everything is still there. I don't lose anything. That's what is the most valuable and likable. It is really a professional solution for designing. The designs look really nice in the PDF."
"Visio is stable."
"Installing Visio is straightforward."
"Putting details into the process flow and being able to link other objects into the diagrams are very helpful features."
"Visio has improved my workflow by making it easy to create charts, diagrams, and basic illustrations that I can use in my client reports and proposals. It has saved me a lot of time I would otherwise spend creating visuals for clients by hand."
"The primary functionality revolves around the creation of flow diagrams and diverse Building Information Modeling (BIM) using contemporary and pre-established notations. In my perspective, these ready-made notations prove highly beneficial. Despite being a compact tool, it is effective for tasks such as drawing organizational charts, making it a straightforward and uncomplicated 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."
"From what I have experienced when I worked with a process team, we would like to work with dummy process diagrams. Right now, I don't know if I would set up a process as a dummy, since it very often gets mixed up with diagrams in production. There are many process diagrams linked to the production environment. I would like to have some kind of sandbox to work with. That would be very good. I don't even know if they already have it, but I would certainly like that."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting function. At the moment, for example, while it is possible to report on how many users you had in the last month, you can't use it to tell you how many users you had from the first week to the second week. This is really a drawback because when you have an activity to promote Signavio or BPI, it would be good to be able to measure how many people you had in the system."
"If you start from scratch then I think this product would be ideal, but if you already have something then it may or may not suit you."
"Signavio Process Manager needs to have an integrated document management system to better work with processes that rely heavily on documents and document flows."
"The licensing model could be better."
"The reporting is too slow and there is a limit of 250 processes."
"I would like to see more integration with the process manager in terms of the workflow accelerator."
"SAP Signavio Process Manager's UI is not user-friendly. Its pricing is also high."
"As a user, it, unfortunately, lacks recognition by Microsoft products."
"It could use easier custom icon sets."
"There should be more items available from a variety of other products that can be integrated."
"An area for improvement in Visio is pricing. It's a costly tool for my company because it only uses Visio occasionally."
"The Auto-Align has improved significantly from the previous release; however, it still jumbles the model if your process diagram has a fair degree of complexity."
"One issue I've noticed is that when working on a shared video link with a friend for Visio, there can be a delay in changes reflecting on their screen after I've made them. This also occurs when we're working on the same document. It would be beneficial if changes could be reflected in real-time. Additionally, I've experienced some text size issues with the flow task feature. Sometimes when I enter text, it appears very small, and increasing the size causes it to extend beyond the diagram, creating formatting issues. It would be helpful if these text and formatting issues could be addressed."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It's been fine so far."
"It can be complex. If you don't know a little bit about it, it can get really confusing."
SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 57 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". 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". SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, ARIS BPA, Camunda, ADONIS and UiPath Process Mining, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and Lucidchart. See our SAP Signavio Process Manager vs. Visio report.
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