We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA, QPR ProcessDesigner, and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Software AG and others in Business Process Design."The simulation engine and SAP integration are technically very robust."
"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."
"It helps the business make an informed decision."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"ARIS process modeling and analysis allows integration of end-to-end business processes with the organization's vision, strategies, and business objectives, through visual management."
"Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"Processes become clearer, easier to understand, and easier to spot in development areas."
"It makes communication easier due to transparency on processes."
"Visio is outstanding because it has features that are useful for project management."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Visio makes it easy to communicate your ideas from several areas of your imagination across several domains."
"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."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"It is a standard and easy-to-use solution from Microsoft, and you benefit from the general functions of Microsoft solutions. It integrates easily with SharePoint, which is a useful tool from Microsoft."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."
"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 reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."
"Migration to the next release is very tricky. You can't do it without support from ARIS or from a software kit. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to migrate. My impression is that a lot of companies do not migrate regularly because of that issue."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, the app could use some small details and functionalities."
"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."
"There is definitely a need to produce models in XML. There is already something available, but it seems that transferring between the different modelling tools is difficult."
"The application grid seems to be unreliable which makes simple tasks complicated."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex for me."
"I would like to see included in the next release is the implementation of web publishing."
"One thing that I always felt was missing was the ability to integrate with other Microsoft products, particularly with things like SharePoint or other Excel Office tools. It may be available, but it is not as good as it could be."
"I would like to be able to present diagrams in multiple ways, such as a Swimlane diagram."
"The auto-routing feature could be better."
"The design and the look and feel, need to be improved."
"In terms of features, it could provide more automation to display data flowing through architecture."
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