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ConceptDraw V: Reviews, Feedback
Geetesh Bajaj | May 17, 2005 |
PowerPoint MVP
At its price point, ConceptDraw provides amazing value. Its cross platform existence will provide more justification to end users who need to work often on both the Windows and Mac platforms.
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Mark Cianca | May 12, 2005 |
Recently I conducted an assessment of Business and Technical Diagramming Tools available for MacOS X-based workstations. I am the
director of a program/project management office for a major research university in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.Like most research institutions, our computing environment is highly heterogeneous. For administrative use, our mix is about 57% MacOS, 40% Windows, and the remainder a mix of Linux/UNIX. I needed to find a tool that was cross platform and that provided high value for use in creating illustrations or diagrams to convey technical or business process ideas effectively.
I examined several software packages. Visio, obviously, is a PC-based tool and dominant. But it isn't cross-platform. Similarly, OmniGraffle is an interesting tool for MacOS machines, but it requires translations to and from Visio format before documents can be shared with PC users. To satisfy my need for a Visio-like software application that had the greatest cross platform potential, I looked at, and ultimately settled on, ConceptDraw Pro.
I am in a test deployment now with another member of my team who is a PC user, and after an evaluation period of three months, I will likely recommend that we move forward with a deeper deployment of this application.
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Mark Cianca | May 11, 2005 |
You're light years ahead of where OmniGroup's Graffle product is...
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Tom Kornas | May 5, 2005 |
My firm does consulting and testing for medical facilities. The sterile processing industry will, I am sure be highly impressed by the reports on microbial atp testing with the ConceptDraw V Professional. This program has given me numerous ideas for communicating and I cannot wait to implement this system in my everyday work. Thank you for a great product! |
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Emie Samuel | April 29, 2005 |
The Concept Draw is very useful... and eligant to use for my work... and expected things are available in it. |
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Neil Mackrell | May 20, 2004 |
My whole family uses ConceptDraw. I use it mainly for business. I am a Senior Project Manager and use it to draw all sorts of process flow charts, project overview diagrams, mind maps and the like. My daughter uses it for various bits of her college work. The science based templates were one of my main reasons for buying the program in the first place. We also use it for our hobbies and interests. We have used it to produce directional maps, sleeping plans for church group outings, various charts and notices for our local church and other church groups. |
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Paul Opsahl | March 26, 2004 |
Greetings! No problems really - ConceptDraw V is very nice software. I have used Visio on a Windows machine and I'm very much interested in moving away from all Microsoft products. I have started using an Apple computer two years ago and now I am very happy to find ConceptDraw because it works very much like Visio - even on an Apple computer! I am also very happy to see that this software is from a company in Ukraine - very good! I have visited Kiev many times. |
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Chris Simo-Kinzer | December 08, 2003 |
VP Brookfield Industries, inc. I really do like ConceptDraw and want it to continue to be a great program. I've played around with some of the glaring problem areas and BRAVO...This is soooooo much better. I'll look out for the next update, as the text issue is stall a problem, but the other fixes are awesome.... Thank you... |
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Marc Silver | November 13, 2003 |
ConceptDraw Does What Visio Cannot I needed a Draw package that would enable me to create multiple-page wireframe documents for specifying software/web designs. Visio doesn't handle this task well because it treats every page as a separate entity with its own zoom and scroll settings. With Visio, you can't quickly page through a document because the different zoom settings and scroll positions on each page drive you crazy. ConceptDraw's approach is much better because it treats a document as a cohesive whole. Zoom and scroll settings are applied to the entire document, not each page individually. Visio doesn't even allow you to copy a shape from one page to the same position on another page. Since this is a major new release, ConceptDraw still has a few bugs to be worked out. I have found the ConceptDraw team to be responsive to my inquiries, and they are committed to the long-term quality and value of the product. I expect that ConceptDraw will be a widely used, well-regarded product. It should be especially useful among information architects, software and web designers, and others who create large, multi-page drawing documents. |
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Dr. Joel Orr Vice-President, Chief Visionary |
October 8, 2003 |
ConceptDraw is a package of astonishing power and elegance, very much the equal of Visio in many respects, and with some features Visio doesn't have. Moreover, it is available on PCs and Macs both. There are specialized versions of the product for "mind-mapping" and the product can be customized.
The UI was a bit clunky at first--I chalk it up to it being from Odessa--but the product's depth and capabilities are amazing. That's probably because it's from Odessa, too.
There is no other cross-platform diagramming package that I know of. This one will even output PDF.
Impressive. Powerful. |
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Bernhard Vischer | October 03, 2003 |
An intuitive handling. Very easy. Fine. |
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