SmartDraw

Great tool for business analyst activities

Aspetti positivi:

Can create your mind maps and complex flowchart of any kind with ease. Using it on office desktop and well integrated with Microsoft office suit. Also compatible with google docs which is very helpful

Aspetti negativi:

So i didn't find anything and i will strongly recommend this for pm and business analyst activities.

With SmartDraw, we create unlimited diagrams and designs that generate value.

Commenti: It is a tool that works perfectly in the Cloud, in addition to having a very wide variety of templates to facilitate teamwork, and with multiple import and export mechanisms. SmartDraw certainly is a powerful diagram generator for all kinds of applications, ranging from engineering, marketing, computing, and much more.

Aspetti positivi:

One of the main advantages and attractions of SmartDraw is its intuitive and clean design, with multiple templates to be used in almost all types of diagrams and designs. In addition, we can save our files to our local storage or use direct integrations with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and OneDrive, not to mention the opportunity we have to share the link of our designs. On the other hand, there is a great variety of formats to export and import files, in addition to the one used natively by SmartDraw.

Aspetti negativi:

SmartDraw has not only focused on a platform that generates value in an encapsulated way since it allows empowering collaborative use with third-party integrations such as MS Teams, Confluence, and Jira from Atlassian. This allows it to be widely used in organizations that are based on the generation of new ideas as the key to success in their businesses.

Unstable and Quirky - Danger - Lost Work Zone

Commenti: The only benefit I have received is when I quickly print what I am working on, so that this horribly unstable and unpredictable program will not just lose it and delete even saved work from its memory. When you want to make certain measurements, you will never be able to do so, because it only allows "anchored" points to be measured - not the item or space you wish to measure. It is impossible to scale down their furniture selections/templates because they have it set to scale down the width, when all you want to change is the length. It has been a disappointing waste of time and money.

Aspetti positivi:

I has little to say for Pros: because it is just as easy to draw boxes without having this program. I learned every feature and applied all of the program's features. It is likely that you could get a beginning design to give to someone, as a simple floor plan, if that is what you need. But be sure to print it to preserve your work after each little change.

Aspetti negativi:

Customer service is practically nil and there is no "help" or troubleshooting. If you try to contact them for support, you have to wait and see if they will send you an email the next day - and they usually won't. If you get the email, it does not remotely address the trouble or offer to talk you through it if their "solution" or instruction is not on point. Really disappointing. There is no auto save unless you are working in the Cloud for this program. Further, it constantly just stops and closes itself - and dumps all of your work during that session, even if you have been saving! So, then the hours of work are permanently lost - no kidding, EVEN if you pushed save. If you use it, you must remember to save, save, save - after each little line or inclusion and then print. Then close the program before its instability causes it to just close itself as to the design you are working on. If you don't close it down, you will lose all of your work. Then - get this - when you reopen a file after it has decided to shut down, it says that there is a recovered work file and asks if you want to open it and recover it. If you say "yes" the program shuts down again, over and over and over. It is so unstable that it can't hold up to the tasks it claims to be performing with its features, such as layers, measurements, inserting photos, etc.

SmartDraw a powerful tool for diagramming, drawing, layout and more.

Commenti: It is perfect for drawing projects, has a wide range of templates that make it easier for you to work and all the types of diagrams you need (at least it is for my IT area), it has a desktop and online version that allows you to work in any place, it is very useful.

Aspetti positivi:

SmartDraw is a very complete plication for all types of diagrams that you need, has great virtues with respect to Visio that can be considered the number one in the market or at least used, when you need to diagram a project from the basic algorithm to the more complex gantt diagrams , this tool is very useful, it makes you much easier in work (in my experience much easier to use than Visio) the connection between diagrams is simpler, since finishing a diagram makes it much easier to do the following, has a wide range of options and templates that help you in the creation process, contributing to the development of diagrams for systems that you are going to develop, a very useful tool for projects where you need to correctly capture what you want to develop, use it, try it for yourself.

Aspetti negativi:

Its main against is the price, the full version is very expensive although it allows you to enjoy the desktop version and its cost is very high, I think you should download it to compete more in the market. The speed of the online version sometimes fluctuates negatively, it is a mistake that must be corrected.

They lock you OUT without a subscription

Commenti: I'm frustrated and angry that I'm not able to use my OWN WORK, or even VIEW it!

Aspetti positivi:

Loaded quick, and easy to use. But this is NOT why I'm writing this review... The review is for the CONS!

Aspetti negativi:

I liked this product until the license expired, THEN I couldn't even access my work, I had to PAY to see MY OWN WORK. They didn't limit the software, they locked you out and away from your work. For this reason I WILL NOT USE this software any longer. I will not have MY WORK held captive by a software producer. This software is CRAP if this is how they treat their clients who spent a years subscription, only to find all the work they did in a year is no longer accessible.