We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."
"The diagrams Visio creates are quite impressive in the sense that we can cooperate with more colleagues in one task and see the flow of the process."
"A good designation feature."
"Visio makes it easier than with other tools to do such tasks as changing things or coming up with one's own visual style for presentation purposes."
"Putting details into the process flow and being able to link other objects into the diagrams are very helpful features."
"What I like the most is the simplicity and ease of usage."
"It is pretty easy to use if you are looking for this type of solution."
"The solution is finely stable."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"An area where it lacks and can be considered for improvement in the future is if we can somehow automate or learn how we can automate different processes."
"I had this decentralization mission where I had some friendly fights with the consultants of Software AG. My opinion was the business department should be able to publish their processes and do all their evaluation stuff in ARCM themselves. It has to be a one stop shop. I want a one stop shop to go from ARIS BPM to ARIS ARCM, because having everything go through that would be an improvement due to the inputs that we made with Software AG. They will make it possible that the trigger sent from BPM to ARCM will start their object generation."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"I would like the possibility to use real data. In other words, it can use this system to integrate with others that are operating directing with users like clients, employs, and others."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."
"It needs hyperlinked or narratives for page flows to make demos more effective."
"The user interface could be simplified and easier to use."
"Portability from Visio to PowerPoint and vice versa could be simplified."
"There are too many features."
"The solution should be included in Microsoft Office 365. For some reason, it's not. It should be bundled in with everything else."
"Something that needs to improve, is the interface interaction with other tools."
"Its integration with other vendors can be better and support for other formats. For example, when we import a JPEG, we cannot customize it. Similarly, we can't utilize the BPML kind of diagrams."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex for me."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Visio is ranked 1st in Business Process Design with 100 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visio writes "A software for drawing a variety of diagrams which include flowcharts, org charts, building plans, floor plans, data flow diagrams". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and No Magic MagicDraw. See our ARIS BPA vs. Visio report.
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