We performed a comparison between ARIS Architect and Designer 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 user interface is easy to work with."
"We use the product for modeling, conducting process checks, doing process flow, running, and analyzing the report."
"The support team is very responsive."
"It's really fast. It's much faster compared to Enterprise Architect."
"The most important feature is ARIS's ability to turn a process design into data to analyze anything you want. For example, we have some analysis reports in ARIS that can guide us when we want to change a system. It shows us how this change will affect all of the organization's processes."
"One of the most valuable features is how user-friendly ARIS is, compared to other BPM tools. This tool has very diverse types of assets available. ARIS also has a lot of customizable options, different model types, object types, a number of attributes, and a lot of customization is possible. In comparison, Signavio is very limited in terms of model types and object types. So these customizations ARIS offers are really valuable to any client who wants to create a BPM repository."
"What I like the most is the simplicity and ease of usage."
"The solution is easy to understand with some hands-on experience."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"Great at illustrating advanced topics which helps my team understand what I'm trying to get across."
"The most valuable aspect of Visio is enabling comprehensive coverage of architectural elements."
"Putting details into the process flow and being able to link other objects into the diagrams are very helpful features."
"Simple to use and very intuitive."
"The interface is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The simulation part still has some way to go. It's a good feature, and it's something that other vendors don't have right now, but it can still be improved. Some features are needed in ARIS Architect, so advanced users can do things through drag-and-drop functionality."
"The product is not flexible."
"The support team takes a long time to respond to our queries."
"We face problems when the product's capacity is increased."
"This product could be improved by lowering the licensing cost. More organizations could use ARIS if they slashed the licensing costs even a little bit."
"You can have a collaboration feature, but it's necessary to have ARIS Connect which is a separate, costly product."
"I would like to see Visio become some kind of enterprise architecture, which it is not."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It's been fine so far."
"Integration with other software would be an area of improvement, so that it's not just used to document but also as a center plane for information sharing."
"The price could be better."
"The database modeling has deteriorated significantly in the more current versions."
"Lacks stencils for new technologies in the solution."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex for me."
"I would like to see better integration with external data sources."
ARIS Architect and Designer is ranked 19th in Business Process Design with 6 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. ARIS Architect and Designer is rated 7.6, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ARIS Architect and Designer writes "The solution is stable and has a responsive support team, but it is not flexible, and exporting data is difficult". 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 Architect and Designer is most compared with ARIS Cloud, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, erwin Data Modeler by Quest and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our ARIS Architect and Designer vs. Visio report.
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