"I think one of the key things is the plugins for integration with requirements management tools like Doors"
"The most valuable feature is the amount of flexibility that one has to model, which is great for an individual."
"I would rate MagicDraw a nine out of ten because of the price. Enterprise Architect has a lot of bugs and MagicDraw is a lot more accurate and flexible. It's a level better."
"The most valuable features are the visibility, standard compliance, and interface."
"The beauty of MagicDraw is that it has a simulation part, so you can simulate your model to validate it. The simulation allows you to bring in code off of an external code that you can write to set up the simulation and execute the code."
"The MBFC capability of MagicDraw is higher than the other competitors."
"The pricing model is attractive."
"It is easy-to-use and it helps understand its data modeling structure through the intuitive user interface."
"I love Visual Paradigm because it has many different types of diagrams. For any field of engineering, we can find a diagram."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I like the structure. I can see the diagrams and everything I created."
"Stable design software with multiple functions and features. It's simple to install and easy to use."
"The Visual Paradigm business process forms for designing we good. There was not a lot of configuration for the process diagram."
"The solution is very user-friendly. It's easy to just open it and start working."
"The UI UX of the tool is not really user-friendly and needs to be completely reformed."
"When I am working with my Mac and I right-click to copy and paste, it doesn't work."
"It's very focused on specific modern languages and it doesn't do necessarily general systems software engineering with diagrams. They should expand the diagram types for the languages."
"For the next releases, I would like to have them import requirements from other sources. They could make it very easy to do that because there are a lot requirements management tools like DOORS, D-O-O-R-S, Dynamic Object Oriented Management. A lot of folks use DOORS to create a requirement. For those requirements you allocate them to a component in the architecture and a verification method for that requirement. It would be good if we could import those into MagicDraw as components so you don't have to manually do these things."
"The licenses are expensive compared to similar tools. At the moment, the user is open to using MagicDraw if it's 15% more than other solutions. If it were to cost any more, they wouldn't use it."
"The documentation for MagicDraw and the video tutorials compared to other competitors is an area for improvement."
"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."
"The solution could be more compatible with other products in the future."
"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."
"There are some connectivity issues that crop up rarely when used with SQL Server."
"More flexibility when choosing the type of diagram would be nice."
"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."
"The solution can be heavy on resource usage."
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No Magic MagicDraw is ranked 14th in Business Process Design with 6 reviews while Visual Paradigm is ranked 10th in Business Process Design with 7 reviews. No Magic MagicDraw is rated 7.2, while Visual Paradigm is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of No Magic MagicDraw writes "I like the simulation part, so you can simulate your model to validate it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Paradigm writes "Data modeling through an interface that makes it easy-to-use and understand". No Magic MagicDraw is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, erwin Data Modeler (DM), Lucidchart and ARIS BPA, whereas Visual Paradigm is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, Lucidchart, Bizagi and ARIS BPA. See our No Magic MagicDraw vs. Visual Paradigm report.
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