There is room for improvement in the licensing model. I would suggest implementing country-specific pricing, as many other products in India do. This would make Visual Paradigm more affordable and accessible. So, it's a small point for improvement: the pricing model should be more flexible. Every company, especially American companies, should have country-specific pricing for India. It's a huge market with a lot of potential, and having competitive pricing would encourage more people to use the product. Most other product managers, such as Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, have country-specific pricing for India, and it's a strategy that Visual Paradigm should consider adopting as well.
I don't think there are a lot of things to improve when it comes to Visual Paradigm. The only thing I would mention is that it is quite heavy on resources. So it seems to run my computer hard.
Visual Paradigm provides many modeling tools and methods, but one requires modeling knowledge to achieve the product's high-level purpose. It's not quite a seamless process for an enterprise architecture or for an application architecture to arrive at a deliverable since it requires the modeler to know what techniques to opt for and select instead of the system guiding it. The solution's technical support can be improved and accessible for our company location since Visual Paradigm follows a remote support model with some challenges.
Founder and CEO: Helping companies that have IBM mainframes to Modernize at IKAN
Real User
Top 10
2023-04-14T11:56:04Z
Apr 14, 2023
The user interface is not easy to navigate, so it should be made easier. There is always room for improvement. The pricing could be a bit cheaper, and more automation and updates should be introduced.
Chief Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Top 20
2022-11-01T14:50:34Z
Nov 1, 2022
In terms of room for improvement in Visual Paradigm, I tried looking for one. I'm pleased with the tool, but it would be great if you could integrate Visual Paradigm with more tools. For example, when moving from Visual Paradigm to another tool, such as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, the process could be improved a bit. Still, I wonder if it's not limited by the standards Visual Paradigm follows, such as XMI files. It could be connected to limitations related to the standards rather than a tool limitation. When you move projects from Visual Paradigm into Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect via XMI files, you lose all your notes from the elements, so this is an area for improvement in Visual Paradigm. Another point is that TOGAF and ArchiMate could be supported in Visual Paradigm as part of a lower level of licensing or cheaper licensing models, that would be best for me.
For me, what needs improvement in Visual Paradigm is the limited features included in the $99 license, which is the cheapest option. If more features could be included in the cheapest licensing package, Visual Paradigm would be better, especially for businesses that have a limited budget for buying software.
The solution can improve by updating the user interface and graphics. The solution also supports a few glitches in the methodologies that need to be corrected.
Visual Paradigm could improve many aspects. The performance could be better because it can be low. When we have large and complicated models, it has a low speed and many bugs. Sometimes the solution stops and you have to restart Microsoft Windows on your PC. The larger database modeling cannot be done properly, I have to use another solution called SAP PowerDesigner. SAP PowerDesigner is only a little bit better when it comes to performance. Visual Paradigm was made with Java, and Java consumes a lot of RAM. However, Visual Paradigm has better modeling tools than other solutions, such as SAP PowerDesigner. The interface and memos are a little unordinary. When we want to teach it to our teams and customers' teams, it is unusual. The manuals should be more similar to iPhones to make it easy for students to learn. They will become comfortable with the features, but the beginning can be a challenge. In a future release, Visual Paradigm should add more Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) modeling process maps. For example, when we want to export BPMN models to Microsoft Visio, we have some issues. Their exporter does not work properly. It is not a feature to add, but it is a bug, they should fix. The process simulation could use some improvement. Visual Paradigm has many spaces to expand and improve. If they can prepare a non-Java version, it would be a good decision for them because many users leave Visual Paradigm because of this.
Software architect and development at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2022-02-15T08:58:14Z
Feb 15, 2022
When compared to Lucidchart, Visual Paradigm is heavier than Lucidchart, though this product does provide more functionality. Its a trade-off between simplicity and complexity, with Visual Paradigm having more complexity, which could be an area for improvement.
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. An additional feature I would like to see is a publishing feature. If they created a much better publishing feature, it would be better.
Head Of Research Department at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-02-22T11:53:32Z
Feb 22, 2021
From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams. When two users work on the same diagram, it can be difficult. Changes appear in the diagrams which can be difficult to resolve. In the next edition, they mentioned that they will be including some new diagrams relating to infographics. If they can improve the infographics and they're backed by a database, it would be very useful.
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-09-22T07:16:07Z
Sep 22, 2020
I do not think I really used it enough to find a lot of things that I did not like. It really did what I expected it to do. I did have some connectivity issues between Visual Paradigm and SQL Server in one instance but that would be the only thing that I think might need to be addressed as an issue. It is hard to tell if it was the product or something else within SQL Server.
Senior Business Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2020-08-30T08:33:22Z
Aug 30, 2020
I'm not sure what is missing within the solution. We haven't used it long enough to really dive deep into its features and usability, as we've only worked on a few projects. There might be a better solution on the market, however, this is the only solution I'm really familiar with at this point. The solution could be more compatible with other products in the future.
The solution is not user-friendly. It uses a lot of memory and CPU. You have to have a good computer to use it. The solution should allow for more integration between PowerDesigner and Visual Paradigm.
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
2019-05-27T16:12:00Z
May 27, 2019
I would like to see something for visualizing innovation work maps. I created my own template in LibreOffice Draw, but it would be nice if there were something like that in Visual Paradigm. What I do now is to use the export functionality in Visual Paradigm to save the images and then place them into LibreOffice Draw. That way, I can make a nice, A0 paper-sized visualization of the innovation work map. It would be nice if it were integrated so that I could do it all within the Visual Paradigm, and have one export. The other thing that needs improvement is pricing. I have considered halting my license and not upgrading from the current version because of this.
Visual Paradigm is a UML tool. The tool is designed for a wide range of users including software engineers, system analysts, business analysts and system architects, or for anyone who is interested in reliably building large-scale software systems using an object-oriented approach. In addition, Visual Paradigm supports the latest standards of UML notation.
Visual Paradigm's initial deployment was difficult since we did it for the first time. It is challenging to learn to use the product.
There is room for improvement in the licensing model. I would suggest implementing country-specific pricing, as many other products in India do. This would make Visual Paradigm more affordable and accessible. So, it's a small point for improvement: the pricing model should be more flexible. Every company, especially American companies, should have country-specific pricing for India. It's a huge market with a lot of potential, and having competitive pricing would encourage more people to use the product. Most other product managers, such as Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, have country-specific pricing for India, and it's a strategy that Visual Paradigm should consider adopting as well.
The product's versioning capability needs improvement.
I don't think there are a lot of things to improve when it comes to Visual Paradigm. The only thing I would mention is that it is quite heavy on resources. So it seems to run my computer hard.
Visual Paradigm provides many modeling tools and methods, but one requires modeling knowledge to achieve the product's high-level purpose. It's not quite a seamless process for an enterprise architecture or for an application architecture to arrive at a deliverable since it requires the modeler to know what techniques to opt for and select instead of the system guiding it. The solution's technical support can be improved and accessible for our company location since Visual Paradigm follows a remote support model with some challenges.
The user interface is not easy to navigate, so it should be made easier. There is always room for improvement. The pricing could be a bit cheaper, and more automation and updates should be introduced.
Visual Paradigm can improve by having better process mining tools and model integration.
In terms of room for improvement in Visual Paradigm, I tried looking for one. I'm pleased with the tool, but it would be great if you could integrate Visual Paradigm with more tools. For example, when moving from Visual Paradigm to another tool, such as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, the process could be improved a bit. Still, I wonder if it's not limited by the standards Visual Paradigm follows, such as XMI files. It could be connected to limitations related to the standards rather than a tool limitation. When you move projects from Visual Paradigm into Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect via XMI files, you lose all your notes from the elements, so this is an area for improvement in Visual Paradigm. Another point is that TOGAF and ArchiMate could be supported in Visual Paradigm as part of a lower level of licensing or cheaper licensing models, that would be best for me.
For me, what needs improvement in Visual Paradigm is the limited features included in the $99 license, which is the cheapest option. If more features could be included in the cheapest licensing package, Visual Paradigm would be better, especially for businesses that have a limited budget for buying software.
The solution can improve by updating the user interface and graphics. The solution also supports a few glitches in the methodologies that need to be corrected.
Visual Paradigm could improve many aspects. The performance could be better because it can be low. When we have large and complicated models, it has a low speed and many bugs. Sometimes the solution stops and you have to restart Microsoft Windows on your PC. The larger database modeling cannot be done properly, I have to use another solution called SAP PowerDesigner. SAP PowerDesigner is only a little bit better when it comes to performance. Visual Paradigm was made with Java, and Java consumes a lot of RAM. However, Visual Paradigm has better modeling tools than other solutions, such as SAP PowerDesigner. The interface and memos are a little unordinary. When we want to teach it to our teams and customers' teams, it is unusual. The manuals should be more similar to iPhones to make it easy for students to learn. They will become comfortable with the features, but the beginning can be a challenge. In a future release, Visual Paradigm should add more Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) modeling process maps. For example, when we want to export BPMN models to Microsoft Visio, we have some issues. Their exporter does not work properly. It is not a feature to add, but it is a bug, they should fix. The process simulation could use some improvement. Visual Paradigm has many spaces to expand and improve. If they can prepare a non-Java version, it would be a good decision for them because many users leave Visual Paradigm because of this.
I was looking to generate code from the diagrams, but it was not totally clear how to do it.
When compared to Lucidchart, Visual Paradigm is heavier than Lucidchart, though this product does provide more functionality. Its a trade-off between simplicity and complexity, with Visual Paradigm having more complexity, which could be an area for improvement.
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. An additional feature I would like to see is a publishing feature. If they created a much better publishing feature, it would be better.
More flexibility when choosing the type of diagram would be nice.
From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams. When two users work on the same diagram, it can be difficult. Changes appear in the diagrams which can be difficult to resolve. In the next edition, they mentioned that they will be including some new diagrams relating to infographics. If they can improve the infographics and they're backed by a database, it would be very useful.
I do not think I really used it enough to find a lot of things that I did not like. It really did what I expected it to do. I did have some connectivity issues between Visual Paradigm and SQL Server in one instance but that would be the only thing that I think might need to be addressed as an issue. It is hard to tell if it was the product or something else within SQL Server.
I'm not sure what is missing within the solution. We haven't used it long enough to really dive deep into its features and usability, as we've only worked on a few projects. There might be a better solution on the market, however, this is the only solution I'm really familiar with at this point. The solution could be more compatible with other products in the future.
The solution is not user-friendly. It uses a lot of memory and CPU. You have to have a good computer to use it. The solution should allow for more integration between PowerDesigner and Visual Paradigm.
I would like to see something for visualizing innovation work maps. I created my own template in LibreOffice Draw, but it would be nice if there were something like that in Visual Paradigm. What I do now is to use the export functionality in Visual Paradigm to save the images and then place them into LibreOffice Draw. That way, I can make a nice, A0 paper-sized visualization of the innovation work map. It would be nice if it were integrated so that I could do it all within the Visual Paradigm, and have one export. The other thing that needs improvement is pricing. I have considered halting my license and not upgrading from the current version because of this.
I would like to see the ability to easily export to groupware, such as Atlassian Confluence.