We performed a comparison between Bonita, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Sparx Systems and others in Business Process Design."Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."
"The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it."
"Development of forms and flows."
"The user interface is easy to use."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"Ability to model and create view under same roof."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"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"
"The most valuable feature of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is the value streams."
"Some of the business processes are very easy to compare when you have the diagrams."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"If you are a knowledgeable individual, the initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The scalability is good. We can reuse it as a model. It can be modified."
"Visio has allowed us to create good diagrams for our technical employees to consume. The solution provides templates, is straightforward, and has tools for the easy creation of diagrams."
"Drawing flowcharts is the most valuable feature of Visio."
"Visio is a very easy tool in general, making it easy for anyone to understand."
"The most valuable feature of Visio is diagram creation. If you have a presentation, you can create your data model using Visio."
"It's a very flexible solution."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Installation could be made easier."
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"We are struggling a bit with integrations."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance"
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
"I think that collaboration can be better."
"I would like it to be less of a general tool. Currently, it is not a Swiss army knife that can do everything. It is not specialized for our purposes. We are a civil engineering company. We build things. We work mostly in what is known as Infra world in the Netherlands, which comprises objects such as bridges, locks, and water management. We would like to see more focus on such types of projects. It would be nice if it has more specializations. At the moment, it is very generic, and you have to create everything yourself. Our focus is more on user requirement management, which is currently very basic. I would like to see a lot more functionality in this area. Its basic functions for adding user requirements are perfect, but we need more features. Currently, it has limited possibilities for our requirements. I would also like to see better contract management and have it managed in a certain way."
"Even if there are web-based tools in the Enterprise Architecture tool ecosystem (like Prolaborate), the main modeling application is still a fat client application."
"The platform has limitations in managing aspects like repositories."
"There are a lot of patches that sometimes change how one version will interact compared to another."
"Extremely large complex drawings need to be saved on the cloud for access."
"The database modeling has deteriorated significantly in the more current versions."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"The simulation is an area that requires improvement."
"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."
"Inventory feature could be improved."
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