We performed a comparison between IBM Blueworks Live 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."We are you using the product as a process mapping tool and as part of a larger process improvement project. We use it with IBM BPM and IBM ODM. We get an automated workflow solution for our customers, an improved workflow automation."
"It enables decisions based upon processes that we do model, and ultimately move forward with."
"The stability is pretty good. It is highly available, which is key. You don't lose your work and can autosave."
"It has a built-in capability to capture process owners and managers against processes along with other process governance roles."
"The reporting that we can generate from IBM Blueworks Live has been interesting. We found the KPIs, risks, process modeling, format, and colors, to be very good. We use the EY template and it is interesting to generate reporting in this format."
"It is a stable solution since there has not been any downtime. Everything loads fast."
"The business process discovery is excellent. The diagram or blueprinting functionality of the solution are very good. It's quite easy. You can link the sub-processes and get a big overview of the whole process then."
"You can use if from your mobile device or you can be on the desktop. It doesn't matter. You are always connected. It is cloud-based, so you don't have to install anything."
"We can easily add templates to SharePoint for collaboration."
"Very interactive with an intuitive interface."
"The interface of the solution is very good. It's easy to navigate."
"It is easy to use."
"I like the way you can hypertext across tabs so you can actually create an interactive that you can export as a website. You can also extend it to a monitoring tool if you really wanted to."
"It's a very flexible solution."
"What I like best about Visio is that it's flexible. Sometimes, if I need to draw quickly, I use Microsoft PowerPoint, but if I need icons, which Visio has, I use Visio. I also like that the solution gives me a much more powerful range of options."
"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 haven't yet been able to dabble in case management with Blueworks Live, as it is not yet offered with the product."
"In the Blue Works Live software boxes and lines are automatically placed by the programme and can't be easily manipulated."
"The APIs are great, except the normal business user doesn't know how to create APIs. So it's hard because IBM comes to us as the business users and tell us to create reporting with APIs, except we don't know that, so we have to turn around and flip it to our IT people."
"It is BPMN-compliant but the tool needs to be more involved to get into a completely 2.0 oriented tool. It has a few things but it's not the complete BPMN model."
"We would like the ability to add additional custom colors. We would like to color additional items to add notes to the blueprint."
"We'd also like to see it be Six Sigma or Lean compatible, a lot of people have asked about that."
"Sometimes, the tool is automatic, which can complicate it, but once you're accustomed to manipulating it, you can use it very effectively."
"The initial setup is neither straightforward nor complex however you do need to know what you are doing."
"It requires a lot of skill to get into it."
"I would like to see traceability. It doesn't have it. You cannot find one object amongst several sheets of Visio diagrams."
"There should be more items available from a variety of other products that can be integrated."
"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."
"There could be better integration between Visio and Word, especially when it comes to importing graphics from the one to the other."
"The user interface could be simplified and easier to use."
"It can be complex. If you don't know a little bit about it, it can get really confusing."
"It is a visualization tool, so database visualization is pretty static in it. They haven't moved the ERDs very well. They haven't adopted any real visualization like what you have in Hackolade for JSON or other data patterns. It has none of that. If you go onto broader patterns, you can actually label and integrate with a data set, if you want, for Visio, but it's very clunky and very difficult for me to assign that to another user. I can't assign it to a junior or a documenter. They really haven't cleaned up and made their tools simpler to use when linking to data, which is primarily what you're trying to do."
IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. IBM Blueworks Live is rated 8.2, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". 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". IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud, Camunda and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, SAP Signavio Process Manager and Lucidchart. See our IBM Blueworks Live vs. Visio report.
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