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"The natural notation is the best feature of Bizagi because it makes it compatible with other products."
"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."
"The ability to write our own code inside each activity is beneficial. Sometimes we need to create functionality that doesn't come out of the box, and this allows us to do that."
"The amount of control that this solution provides is great."
"The solution's simulation capabilities are the most valuable aspects."
"The approval process is simple."
"Bizagi is a very useful tool because it does not require you to program. The user logic is very easy to understand even for people who are not engineers or developers."
"The free online Help and E-Learning is very strong."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"Its traversability is most valuable. I can use ArchiMate, and I can create a UML model. ArchiMate is for logical enterprise architecture, UML is for software engineering, and BPMN is for business processes. I can build it to have multiple models, and they are also traversable, which is not something that every tool allows. If there is a huge organization, you can segment it and have separate models for business technology or internal resource management system. You don't need to keep them in one model, and you can decide to segregate them."
"The most valuable feature of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is the value streams."
"Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."
"Sparx has got a range of modeling features, and I am comfortable with all its offering. I've used a lot of tools over the phone. I found EA Spark, probably the most feature rich product all in all compared to other products. The solution is very cost-effective and that is its best feature. It's a very good delivery architecture tool, which also has enterprise architecture capabilities, and it's got full life cycle processes and software development. So for me, it's a pretty comprehensive tool"
"Ability to model and create view under same roof."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The diagramming and swimlane features allow for separating business functions."
"A good designation feature."
"The diagrams Visio creates are quite impressive in the sense that we can cooperate with more colleagues in one task and see the flow of the process."
"The most valuable features are that the user experience is simple, and it's customizable."
"Visio has improved our organization through an essential collaboration with the other Microsoft applications like SharePoint and Excel. So basically in the earlier days, what used to happen, a majority of the organization captured all the as-is process, the time and motion data in the form of Excel and then they used to create process diagrams using other freeware applications. Collaboration allows easy and convenient sharing with other stakeholders, that is really helpful with Visio."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"One of the features which could be improved is machine learning. Even though this product has been working on this topic, we can see that it still requires improvement."
"It would be helpful if they added some extra features in the next update."
"The product used to have a simulation feature, which I had used quite often. However, it's since been discontinued. It might have originally been a paid feature. It would be nice if they could bring it back and offer it for free."
"In business process mapping, you have pools and dark pools. I don't see that Bizagi differentiates between a regular pool and a dark pool."
"Bizagi's UI should include shorter steps for documenting controls, documenting properties, changing some attributes in the object, and adding additional text."
"From a developer's point of view, an improvement in the layout would make the UI better."
"The on-premise software has some bugs."
"Sometimes, when your process is big with multiple lanes, the product will freeze the issue noticed on multiple laptops, not a single PC."
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
"I think that collaboration can be better."
"It could be more user-friendly. The tools could be more simple to use. It's a very complex solution. Because I am a business analyst, I use these tools to manage requirements, and I make models in UML, BPMN, and ArchiMate, and it's complex. In the next release, I would like to see more integrations."
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"I would like the system to more "intellectually" build a scheme, place icons, and connect lines on the schemes."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
"In general, we now have a problem with Sparx Enterprise Architect because many analysts think it's too complicated to use in a giant environment."
"Visio could improve by simplifying the application to allow the business user more understanding. This will allow us to bring the solution deeper into the organization for use. It can be difficult to navigate and some users tend to rely on third-party applications for auditing, compliance, and policy configuration."
"The solution's flexibility can be perceived as both a strength and a weakness."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"It can be complex. If you don't know a little bit about it, it can get really confusing."
"The design and the look and feel, need to be improved."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex for me."
"The export and import functionality from Visio to other tools and the import and export functionality from other tools to Visio are areas with shortcomings."
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