We performed a comparison between iServer 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."iServer is a solution that helps catalog enterprise architect solutions and catalog information."
"We like the governance."
"The product has a valuable customized model."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"This is a flexible tool compared to some other solutions."
"It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."
"The most valuable features of iServer are the integration with Microsoft Office and the interface is similar to Microsoft applications making them easy to use."
"The solution has wide use within Microsoft products. The integration with Microsoft products, and, in particular, Microsoft Office, is great."
"It is pretty easy to use if you are looking for this type of solution."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"I like the solution's ease of use and its the integration with different templates from a variety of manufacturers."
"Visio is stable."
"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."
"What I like the most is the simplicity and ease of usage."
"One of the things that I like is the automation from external data."
"A good designation feature."
"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."
"I haven't used this solution long enough to know what areas could be improved."
"Cannot see which activities are control activities."
"It runs relatively slowly."
"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"The migration tool needs to be included in the main package, and not as a separate license."
"Enhancing integration options with ERP or ITSM-related solutions for triggering automated requests for process definitions, changes, and tracking them in the iServer."
"Its support team could be well-equipped with the required information."
"I would like to see included in the next release is the implementation of web publishing."
"The improvement I want to see in Visio is being able to edit it more quickly, particularly when pulling it out of another software and then editing it on that non-Visio software. Currently, the process affects the overall performance because it's not as quick as I want it to be."
"Searching for specific templates within the program can be difficult. For example, if I need a template for an electrical diagram with certain symbols, it can be challenging to find it."
"It requires a lot of skill to get into it."
"An area for improvement in Visio is pricing. It's a costly tool for my company because it only uses Visio occasionally."
"There could be better integration between Visio and Word, especially when it comes to importing graphics from the one to the other."
"I would like to see Visio become some kind of enterprise architecture, which it is not."
iServer is ranked 13th in Business Process Design with 15 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 101 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visio writes "Easy setup, very stable, and useful for diagramming and mapping data flows". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, ARIS BPA, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and iGrafx Process360 Live Platform. See our Visio vs. iServer report.
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