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Likelihood to Recommend
Apache OpenOffice
OpenOffice is the best for smaller offices, or offices that need flexibility and the ability to work with multiple file types. It's amazing when you're starting out and you can work without worrying about licensing, fees, or restrictive trial programs. It just works, and it works for free - which is pretty much the best case.
Environmental Scientist
HMB Professional Engineers, Inc.Civil Engineering, 51-200 employees
OmniGraffle
Omnigraffle is great for documentation, mapping, flowcharting, and other technical diagramming scenarios. It's simple enough to bang out a quick illustration and powerful enough to build complex blueprints for complicated technical systems. If you need cross-platform compatibility, though, you're probably better off looking elsewhere. If you want complex integration with data sources (ala Visio's SQL Server integration for shape metadata), OmniGraffle also falls short — but those scenarios are few and far between in my experience.
Senior Digital Strategist
LullabotInternet, 51-200 employees
Pros
Apache OpenOffice
- Lightweight on our computer's resources
- Loads and runs fast
- Runs smoothly without technical errors
- OpenOffice makes it very easy to create and edit documents fast
Owner
Designz23Internet, 1-10 employees
OmniGraffle
- OmniGraffle is fairly simple to use, but the one thing I think it does best is working with curved lines, particularly if you are using some of the available arc templates. Drop an arc onto your page, then tell it the dimensions it needs to be, and viola! Done. Manipulating the arcs is as simple as clicking and dragging offset points.
- OmniGraffle has also done an excellent job in stirring up the creative minds of many people who create templates and tools to work with OmniGraffle (not that Microsoft hasn't done so either), and managed to get the bulk of those into well organized repositories.
- What it all boils down to for me is: it just works. One doesn't need to have a computer science degree to work with it either. It is as simple or complex as you want it to be.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employeesCons
Apache OpenOffice
- The look & feel in general of OpenOffice is outdated and it doesn't match with the one from Microsoft.
- The usability of the menus can use a little improvement; sometimes it is harder to find what you need in a reasonable time.
- Some incompatibilities with .docx and macros in Excel .xlsx files are present. If you have complex macros and formulas in Excel files you may find it won't work in other tools.
Senior Software Development Manager
eSiliconSemiconductors, 501-1000 employees
OmniGraffle
- There could be more scaffolding to support new users in getting to know how to best use all of the many features and tools it provides.
- There could be more support for printing. Many of our process flows extend beyond just one page, and OmniGraffle is rather finicky about printing multipage documents.
- We could use this tool more effectively if there was the ability to have real-time team collaboration. Document handoffs can be a point of missed communication, so it’d be great if we could ever have the option of working together in the same place at the same time.

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesLikelihood to Renew
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Best product for my needs on the market
Director
ERP Solution Advisors LtdManagement Consulting, 501-1000 employees
Usability
Apache OpenOffice
Apache OpenOffice 9.0
Based on 2 answers
It is so easy to use and produces quality work comparable to its paid competitor, Microsoft Office. I highly recommend this free software to any who need to make the switch to powerful and free Office software.

Verified User
Employee in Other
Design Company, 1-10 employeesAlternatives Considered
Apache OpenOffice
OpenOffice is great, free, and easy to use. I enjoy some of this other software, and use Google Drive (and applications) frequently, yet I still find daily use for OpenOffice.
Business Owner
Lucky Whisker LLCOnline Media, 1-10 employees
OmniGraffle
Director of User Experience and Technology
TrueParallel, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Apache OpenOffice
- The initial cost in terms of price and time value of setup was negligible: immediate benefits.
- High compatibility means less troubleshooting and conversion is required, saving time.
- Weak macro support means that occasionally you will be required to use another suite.

Verified User
Administrator in Professional Services
Writing and Editing Company, 1-10 employeesOmniGraffle
- Instrumental in smoothly transitioning a 3rd party development team from designs to requirements.
- Across cultures, US, Chinese, and Icelandic, OmniGraffle allowed our teams to speak the same language.
- The depth of the software make some elements that are useful less accessible than they should be.
Director of Product Experience
WuXi NextCODEBiotechnology, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
Apache OpenOffice
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
OmniGraffle
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No