We performed a comparison between Mindjet MindManager and Visio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mind Mapping Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is being able to export to Microsoft Project."
"A lot of built-in templates are really phenomenal. They cut down the time when you're trying to get something out. They reduce the complexity that technical folks like to put into things that have to be given to technical folks."
"The most valuable feature of Visio is diagram creation. If you have a presentation, you can create your data model using Visio."
"The product efficiently visualizes various business processes, including building and networking architecture."
"Visio is a very easy tool in general, making it easy for anyone to understand."
"I like that once you create what you need, you can group that, at least within that drawing, and you have access to that new stencil object or that custom object throughout that drawing."
"It's a very meat and potatoes type of product and isn't overly designed. It's very easy to find your way through the solution, as it's not too complicated."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Simple to use and very intuitive."
"Since I have been using such an old version, most of the improvements have already been made, but I would suggest moving forward with the times and creating a cloud-based solution for universal access."
"The product only functions well professionally, with adding additional software for configuration."
"There are too many features."
"I would like to see included in the next release is the implementation of web publishing."
"The export and import functionality from Visio to other tools and the import and export functionality from other tools to Visio are areas with shortcomings."
"Microsoft should include Visio as part of their Office 365 offering."
"Visio is not as scalable as other tools due to the proprietary restriction. You cannot customize it or scale it up like the way you do with Trello or Jira. Microsoft places restrictions on things that you can do with Visio."
"They have to improve shapes. It has good shapes, but it certainly can have more shapes. There are no U shapes. It also requires more customizations. There are a lot of icons, but they can be modernized more. These icons have to be more customizable so that we are able to change the color and things like that. It should also have more integration so that we can use it with other tools on the web. We don't use Microsoft Teams. We use Discord, which is more for gamers. It would be helpful if Visio is integrated with Discord. I can then show my work to my team. We use Visio, and it is a must-have solution for us, but being a startup, we don't have the money to use the whole Microsoft system. Some day we will use Office. For companies like us, there should be connectors for other software. We should be able to use a connector with the software that we are using or with the new generation solutions. Connectors will make it very easy to transfer data."
"We need the place and route capability for the lines when we have a database. I use it for architectures, and between the boxes, there are lines or interfaces from one tool to another. I wish those lines could be easily drawn without having to place them mechanically. I wish that there was some kind of place and route capability, so I just press a button, and all the lines get drawn."
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Mindjet MindManager is ranked 4th in Mind Mapping Software while Visio is ranked 1st in Mind Mapping Software with 100 reviews. Mindjet MindManager is rated 9.6, while Visio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Mindjet MindManager writes "An Easy to use tool for brainstorming and planning, compatible with Microsoft Project". 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". Mindjet MindManager is most compared with draw.io, Office 365 and Atlassian Confluence, whereas Visio is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi, Visual Paradigm, IBM Blueworks Live and Lucidchart. See our Mindjet MindManager vs. Visio report.
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