We performed a comparison between Bonita 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 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."
"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."
"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."
"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 solution is easy to use."
"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"The diagramming and swimlane features allow for separating business functions."
"It works really well for flowcharting, it can label."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"The most valuable feature of Visio is the credential management, endpoint manager, and active directory for Microsoft Azure for our hybrid infrastructure. Additionally, there are plenty of features available."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"Architecture modeling software with satisfactory standard features. It's also stable and effective in facilitating communication with others."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it is to use."
"A major benefit of Visio is its user-friendliness. Upon opening the program, you have access to a variety of pre-made templates, saving you time and effort. All you need to do is input your data into the template and you're ready to proceed with your project."
"We are struggling a bit with integrations."
"There is a considerable learning curve."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."
"Bonita can improve by offering more flexibility. The developer does not receive the code of the application to modify it. Most of the other solutions I have used allow the developers to change or improve the code that is generated."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"When you use a BPA solution you can open an end-to-end process in one window, go down, or go up between layers to different places. You should be able to see descriptions of the steps of the process."
"It thinks that it knows what you want to do, but it doesn't. It has a way of behaving that can be very frustrating from time to time. Either it moves things about because it thinks its placement should be at a certain place, or it's keeping track of things that you don't necessarily see, so it moves something elsewhere."
"The simulation is an area that requires improvement."
"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."
"There could be better integration between Visio and Word, especially when it comes to importing graphics from the one to the other."
"If you look at ARIS, for example, or Signavio, the flowchart combines all the details and with the click of a button I can create a process manager. That would be something that Visio could add. It would cut my workload in half."
"The price could be better."
"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."
Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Design with 27 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". 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". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and Nintex Process Platform, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our Bonita vs. Visio report.
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