We performed a comparison between IBM Blueworks Live and Visual Paradigm 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 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."
"It enables decisions based upon processes that we do model, and ultimately move forward with."
"The licenses are transferrable between different users."
"In terms of the collaboration features, from the point of discovery, it was useful to go to load up the policies and the rule sets that the client had. And in terms of exploring options and being able to model a variety of different processes, that was incredibly useful as well."
"The ease of documenting and digitizing the processes was valuable to us."
"IBM Blueworks Live is cloud-based and provides easy access to all your processes in one place."
"I like the two-tiered approach, that is, discover and then drill down to the main steps. You can right click and attach risk, policies, and much more. It is a user-friendly solution."
"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."
"I love Visual Paradigm because it has many different types of diagrams. For any field of engineering, we can find a diagram."
"The solution is very user-friendly. It's easy to just open it and start working."
"The solution is stable. It hasn't crashed, stopped or caused any issues in any way."
"It is easy and intuitive to use, not excessively rigid, and quite flexible."
"I like the fact that this solution is complete."
"Some of the most valuable features of this process modeling tool are process simulation and process animation."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is extremely straightforward."
"Spaces are not well organized; space controls are lacking."
"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."
"The initial setup is neither straightforward nor complex however you do need to know what you are doing."
"We'd also like to see it be Six Sigma or Lean compatible, a lot of people have asked about that."
"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."
"We would like the ability to add additional custom colors. We would like to color additional items to add notes to the blueprint."
"The user interface is quite easy at first but process analysts soon run into roadblocks of limited functionality, which is disappointing."
"The objects that the solution creates are not unique."
"Takes up a lot of resources."
"The user interface is not easy to navigate, so it should be made easier."
"The solution can improve by updating the user interface, and graphics."
"Visual Paradigm is heavier and has more complexity than one of its competitors, e.g. Lucidchart. It could have been better if it was more simplified."
"I would like to see the ability to easily export to groupware, such as Atlassian Confluence."
"I was looking to generate code from the diagrams, but it was not totally clear how to do it."
"From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams."
"It's still early for me to comment since I've only been using it for two months, but the responsiveness when diagramming needs to be improved."
IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews while Visual Paradigm is ranked 7th in Business Process Design with 25 reviews. IBM Blueworks Live is rated 8.2, while Visual Paradigm is rated 8.0. 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 Visual Paradigm writes "Very flexible and easy to use with a good pricing model". IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with Visio, SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud and Camunda, whereas Visual Paradigm is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, Lucidchart, Bizagi and No Magic MagicDraw. See our IBM Blueworks Live vs. Visual Paradigm report.
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