"The initial setup is easy."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"Its traversability is most valuable. I can use ArchiMate, and I can create a UML model. ArchiMate is for logical enterprise architecture, UML is for software engineering, and BPMN is for business processes. I can build it to have multiple models, and they are also traversable, which is not something that every tool allows. If there is a huge organization, you can segment it and have separate models for business technology or internal resource management system. You don't need to keep them in one model, and you can decide to segregate them."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"One of the things that I like is the automation from external data."
"The ability to visualize a workflow is certainly an advantage over just tracking a process in something like Excel."
"The most valuable feature of this product is its versatility."
"Visio has improved my workflow by making it easy to create charts, diagrams, and basic illustrations that I can use in my client reports and proposals. It has saved me a lot of time I would otherwise spend creating visuals for clients by hand."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"Process modeling is a good feature."
"The scalability is good. We can reuse it as a model. It can be modified."
"The solution is easy to understand with some hands-on experience."
"They should make the Save button easier to find. A simplified user interface for a lighter user would probably be useful. I am not sure if such an interface is already there."
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"The documentation could be better. Where I work, we speak French and we don't speak English, so we don't have anything in French. It's perfect in English, but we need something in French."
"Not visually appealing."
"This solution is quite complex to use. It would be nice if the learning curve wasn't so steep."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM feature can be improved to make it more interactive and user friendly because it is a tool for technical people. My current use is only for business process modeling notation and putting in the icons etc. You need to take them in as a class, which makes things very complex. Because of this complexity, it is not an easy-to-handle solution. Enterprise Architect is not very good for mockups. We cannot create user screens and other similar kinds of stuff, which is bad. For these things, we prefer to use Axure RP and other similar solutions. They should either remove this feature from this product or provide some kind of connectivity with Axure RP so that people can do better mockups of screens and import them. They need to augment and strengthen the BPM feature, which is the main feature. They need to put in some elements like artificial intelligence and augmented reality. They should look into such features because these things are coming up."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to."
"The big downside to Visio is that it's very difficult to push the design through to Power Automate, to become a workflow that you can use."
"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."
"Layout configuration is sometimes a little difficult to use."
"The design and the look and feel, need to be improved."
"The user interface could be simplified and easier to use."
"It's not the easiest software to use. It's not user-friendly out-of-the-box."
"It's a very large install that uses many gigabytes."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 35 reviews while Visio is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 54 reviews. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "Great pricing with an easy initial setup and a comprehensive toolkit". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visio writes "A stable and scalable solution for business-oriented presentations". Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, No Magic MagicDraw, ARIS BPA, IBM Rational System Architect and iServer, whereas Visio is most compared with Bizagi, ARIS BPA, SAP Signavio Process Manager, IBM Blueworks Live and Visual Paradigm. See our Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect vs. Visio report.
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