"The most valuable feature is that it is a very fast reverse engineering process. It does a very expansive comparison."
"The most valuable feature is the way you can extend it and customize it. With most modeling tools, you fit your modeling process to fit the tool. In PowerDesigner, you can make the tool fit the way you want to work."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"Very good repository features."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Visio is stable."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution makes it very easy to make exciting pictures and designs. Everything is very intuitive and simple to figure out."
"It is a standard and easy-to-use solution from Microsoft, and you benefit from the general functions of Microsoft solutions. It integrates easily with SharePoint, which is a useful tool from Microsoft."
"Just the fact that a majority of the industry uses it, and you've got third-party templates that were created."
"I like the solution's ease of use and its the integration with different templates from a variety of manufacturers."
"It is stable. I have never experienced any issues."
"The thing I like most about Visio is the stencils. As the product has matured over time, it comes with more stencils and objects that you can just pick out of the menu and go with."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"In the future, I would like to see data manipulation capability where you can actually write SQL queries and manipulate data from directly within the tool."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"Technical support could be better and more human."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"Microsoft should include Visio as part of their Office 365 offering."
"Lacks the ability to analyze the different relations between activities, positions and roles."
"I would like to see the project planning element improved, although it won't happen because Microsoft deliberately made it worse."
"It is not flexible in terms of functions and modeling deliverables. When you speak of processes, the program has to describe the activities and the deliverables. You have to tell your robots how to deal with and input something, and you should have something more flexible from this point of view."
"The auto-routing feature could be better."
"It's a very large install that uses many gigabytes."
"Visio's scalability could be improved. I had a license through my school and it would have been great to be able to collaborate with more people."
"There are a lot of patches that sometimes change how one version will interact compared to another."
SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Architecture Management with 11 reviews while Visio is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 54 reviews. SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Ability to work on a single repository is great; web portal enables view from the browser perspective". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visio writes "A stable and scalable solution for business-oriented presentations". SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler (DM), Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, erwin Evolve, IDERA ER/Studio and SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, whereas Visio is most compared with Bizagi, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, ARIS BPA, SAP Signavio Process Manager and iServer.
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