Visual Paradigm Reviews

I use Visual Paradigm for class diagrams and entity relationship diagrams.

What I really value in Visual Paradigm is ease of use. It's a good product. It also has different features and has more functionalities for different diagrams.

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.

I've been using Visual Paradigm for eight months, and I'm using its latest version.

Visual Paradigm has good stability.

The initial setup for Visual Paradigm was simple. It only took 10 minutes.

I did the installation for this product myself.

This product is fairly cheap. If you want more complex features, e.g. integration with other products, it does require an additional cost, but I do not need those functionalities currently.

I evaluated Lucidchart.

Visual Paradigm is the best product I've used.

I'm just using this product for a drawing diagram, so I'm not looking for any integration, or any other feature it doesn't provide.

As Visual Paradigm is an on-premise product, it doesn't require deployment. It only needed to be installed. It also doesn't require maintenance.

Five people use this product in the organization, and it's mostly used on a daily basis.

If I compare Lucidchart with this product, Lucidchart is very simple to use when drawing diagrams, while Visual Paradigm has more functionalities and features you can apply to different diagrams.

My advice to people looking into implementing this product is that it's simple to use, and it has different functionalities and standard diagram features, so I'm recommending using it for designing purposes.

I'm giving Visual Paradigm a score of eight out of ten.

The solution has a community edition, which makes it free of charge. I'm using the community edition myself within our organization. We are a small team and it's easier for us to find free options. 

Visual Paradigm is great due to the fact that there are lots of templates in their product. 

The solution seems to be constantly improving itself with regular updates and add-ons.

The solution is very user-friendly. It's easy to just open it and start working.

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.

I've been using the solution for more than a year. We've used it on one or two projects.

We have the July 22, 2020 release right now, and it is very stable. There aren't any issues with it at all. We haven't seen any bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's been reliable for our organization.

The solution is a single modeling software. Therefore the scalability question isn't really applicable. 

We're a small firm. We don't have a lot of users and don't need to add a lot of people on a regular basis. There are only three consultants on our team. In total in the company, there may only be 10-15 people. Therefore we don't need to scale per se.

We have a very simple community edition. We've never had to reach out to technical support. If we need assistance, we have another IT firm that can assist us. In terms of if we have any how-to questions, we typically just turn to Google and search for answers that way.

We are also using process design software. I can't recall the name. It's a market leader visualizing for software. It's similar to Microsoft Visio, however, it is called something else.

The initial implementation is not difficult or complex. It's quite easy and straightforward. 

Deployment is also easy. You just take the tool and install it. We use it on Microsoft Windows and have never had any issues.

We use the community edition, which is free. There are no licensing costs and no other costs above this.

I'm a consultant. We're just customers and we're simply using the free version of the product as we're a pretty small company.

Overall, I would rate the solution eight out of ten due to the fact that it's a great solution. That said, I have no real comparison. I've used only really used this solution. 

Currently, I'm learning about this solution and process mining and solutions like UiPath as well. We're moving towards the RPA world.

We primarily use the solution for different kinds of analysis such as software analysis.

The solution allows for different models to be integrated together. For example, if you have a chart or more than four organization charts, then you can use the concepts in your BPM and model. Or your BPM and model can be linked to visual models or use cases.

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.

The solution is stable. It hasn't crashed, stopped or caused any issues in any way.

The solution isn't as scalable as, for example, PowerDesigner.

I haven't been in contact with technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward. The implementation is similar to other software solutions. It's a fast routine process.

The pricing on these types of tools is really affordable.

We use the public cloud deployment model.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

I am a consultant, and I use this solution to model various business needs to show my clients. I run this solution in a Linux environment.

I like the fact that this solution is complete. It doesn't matter whether I want to draw a quick UML model, or a mind map, or some architecture or business motivation. It's in the tool, and there's not much that I can't do with it.

This product has a very low learning curve and I like the user interface.

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've never had any crashes, so I am very happy with the stability of this solution.

Since I am a one person company, I am not sure about scalability. These days there is a cloud repository, which could be interesting, but in the end, you just install it on your local machine and you connect to the repository. It shouldn't be hard to scale.

Technical support for this solution is excellent. In the past, there have been a couple of occasions where I spoke with support, many years ago. They were very helpful and I am still a satisfied customer.

The initial setup is easy. In all of these years, I have only had issues installing it one time. It is a Java-based script, and it just runs.

When I first started using Visual Paradigm, one of the things that I liked was the price. It was not too expensive for a low learning curve. Over the years I've seen an increase in price, and it makes it difficult for a single person company, like me, to decide whether to extend the license.

We evaluated other products before selecting this one, including Enterprise Architect.

When it comes to using the product, there is a learning curve, and it depends on how you want to start using it. If it's just for quickly modeling something to visualize the problem or explain stuff, it's not that hard. If you really want to build your enterprise repository, of course, you still need a lot of principles and guidelines on how you want to use it for the enterprise. With the tree structure for modeling, it's actually pretty easy to change things.

My advice is simply to start using it. I know the ARIS and Enterprise Architect products. I also know tools like ArchiMate. Then there are visual design tools for architecture, but in the end, of all of the products that I've seen so far, Visual Paradigm has one of the lowest learning curves.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

We primarily use the Solution Architecture Models and the Enterprise Architecture Model.

We designed the Enterprise Architecture Model in this tool.

Using the Component Diagram, Visual Paradigm helps with design and control, reusing components.

I would like to see the ability to easily export to groupware, such as Atlassian Confluence.

The Visual Paradigm business process forms for designing we good. There was not a lot of configuration for the process diagram.

I was looking to generate code from the diagrams, but it was not totally clear how to do it.

I have been using Visual Paradigm for approximately three days.

I rate Visual Paradigm an eight out of ten.

Easy images from current diagrams for use in reports and architecture documents.

Like any reasonable Architecture Tool, it produces standard views and allows passing a file with work in it to others.

Many missing diagram formats, incomplete support for DoDAF, ToGAF and similar, sharing should come built in to the product and not be like so many other architecture tools where any time you need some it is at additional cost.

2 years.

No issues with deployment.

Not significant with current versions.

No built in teamwork.

Online support is very lacking and appears to be an entre' for paid support.

Used Rational Rose and Systems Architect in the past. Moved to a new company where this was the standard.

Reduces time and provides better products than PowerPoint engineering.

Get a bundle deal from the vendor with teamwork built in.