"The most valuable feature is being able to export to Microsoft Project."
"Visio has improved our organization through an essential collaboration with the other Microsoft applications like SharePoint and Excel. So basically in the earlier days, what used to happen, a majority of the organization captured all the as-is process, the time and motion data in the form of Excel and then they used to create process diagrams using other freeware applications. Collaboration allows easy and convenient sharing with other stakeholders, that is really helpful with Visio."
"I haven't needed to reach out to technical support the entire time I've used the product. It's very basic and very simple, and therefore I've never run into any issues I haven't been able to deal with personally."
"The product is stable."
"The fact that you could program in VBA is most valuable."
"The solution makes it very easy to make exciting pictures and designs. Everything is very intuitive and simple to figure out."
"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."
"The primary functionality revolves around the creation of flow diagrams and diverse Building Information Modeling (BIM) using contemporary and pre-established notations. In my perspective, these ready-made notations prove highly beneficial. Despite being a compact tool, it is effective for tasks such as drawing organizational charts, making it a straightforward and uncomplicated tool."
"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."
"Since I have been using such an old version, most of the improvements have already been made, but I would suggest moving forward with the times and creating a cloud-based solution for universal access."
"Lacks stencils for new technologies in the solution."
"Integration with other applications need improvement. Having the functionality to integrate with databases will also make this solution better."
"Lacks the ability to analyze the different relations between activities, positions and roles."
"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."
"Sometimes, there is a little bit of a learning curve with it, especially while doing complex network diagrams and getting the lines to snap the way you want them and not overlap or be confusing. It would be great if there was a built-in tutorial. It is not that you can't YouTube, but it would be nice if they gave you some free training. I've been using it forever, but every now and then, I got to do something complicated with it and I wonder how do I do that again. Maybe they do have such information, and I don't know. I have not done research on it because a bunch of people work for me, and some of them are better at it than I am, so I just ask them to do this for me."
"An area for improvement in Visio is pricing. It's a costly tool for my company because it only uses Visio occasionally."
"Its support team could be well-equipped with the required information."
"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."
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Mindjet MindManager is ranked 4th in Mind Mapping Software while Visio is ranked 1st in Mind Mapping Software with 28 reviews. Mindjet MindManager is rated 9.6, while Visio is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visio writes "Provides a quick way to spruce up client reports and proposals with rudimentary yet impactful visuals". Mindjet MindManager is most compared with draw.io, Office 365, Atlassian Confluence and Lucidchart, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and SAP PowerDesigner.
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