Avolution ABACUS vs Lucidchart

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited scenarios include IT portfolio management, project portfolio management, enterprise architecture planning, modeling of business capabilities, using standard frameworks that ship out of the box such as TOGAF, and integration with SharePoint.Less appropriate scenarios would be detailed data modeling and using the tool expecting to get model drive code execution.

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Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng

Enterprise Architect

Anheuser-Busch InBevConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Lucidchart is a powerful workflow builder particularly useful to huge organizations implementing new and updated process flows across multiple regions, demographics, and departments. Creating easy-to-understand and visually appealing diagrams, the software's end products surely would appeal to a variety of users, from newly hired employees getting acclimated with the process to existing teams and leadership groups.

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Sarah Malang

Trainer/Quality Analyst

ZinusRetail, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

Customisable meta-model that allows you to focus on areas of interest, cut out the clutter, and grow organically as requirements arise.
Integration to third party products such as SharePoint, and export/import with Excel feature makes getting information in and out really easy.
Reporting and analytics, and impact analysis are simple using the built-in features as well as ABACUS intelligence and/or integration to third party analytics tools.

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Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng

Enterprise Architect

Anheuser-Busch InBevConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Large number of predefined charts, diagrams, flows
A great repository of various symbols and objects
The easiness of using and manipulating objects and shapes. There is a lot of auto-editing and adjusting which the software does for you which saves a lot of your time.
Easy way of duplicating shapes.
While working with the app everything feels organic and natural. You don't get the clunky/limited feeling which happens with some other similar apps.

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Marko Prokic

Incident Response Expert

JaggaerInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

More standard connectors for integration with other modeling tools could be beneficial for companies having legacy tools/fragmented toolsets.
Better automated diagramming features would be useful.

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Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng

Enterprise Architect

Anheuser-Busch InBevConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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[In my opinion,] if there is one thing, perhaps it would be to slap Microsoft in the face a little harder.
[Microsoft] Visio is ok, but don't try to copy them or re-invent the networking diagram world by becoming greater than [Microsoft] Visio.

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Edgar Rios

Sr. Cloud Network Engineer

opentextComputer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Avolution ABACUS Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

$0 per month

Lucidchart Editions & Modules

Edition

Enterprise	.¹
Free	$0
Individual	$7.95³
Team	$9.00⁴

per year
none
per month, per user
per month, 3 user minimum

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Usability

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Lucidchart 8.9

Based on 752 answers

Lucidchart is very easy to learn, and the search bars provided on every facet of the application (e.g. shapes) help you to find what you need very quickly. The UI is intuitive and it does what you would expect it to do. It does not have the wonky jumping-around habits when it comes to shapes that other diagramming software has.

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Avolution ABACUS 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Highly knowledgable team and fast response times

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Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng

Enterprise Architect

Anheuser-Busch InBevConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Lucidchart 8.4

Based on 623 answers

We have not needed a lot of support since the documentation is done very well. We have also had a good experience dealing with their sales team. They respond quickly whenever we acquire about adding additional licenses. Also, the billing team worked closely with our accounts payable team to set up and connect our billing systems.

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tim lawlor

Head of Business Intelligence

Menlo SecuirtyComputer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

More flexible and user friendly interface.Better customization enables organisations to grow based on their maturity and requirementsAvolution is highly rated on Gartner and Forrester reviews

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Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng

Enterprise Architect

Anheuser-Busch InBevConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Lucidchart when compared to the competition is way ahead of them. It has a good number of features available in the free version and the other thing is that there is none to a little learning curve required to understand the product. It is fairly easy to use when we compare it to the rest.

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Siddharth Kohli

Manager Labs Network & Operations

Visit HealthHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Enabled rationalization of IT portfolio to save costs
Supporting of strategic planning of EA and IT initiatives

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Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng

Enterprise Architect

Anheuser-Busch InBevConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Lucidchart dramatically improved collaboration during the pandemic when teams were operating in a completely virtual fashion.
Lucidchart not only allows for collaboration internally, but it allows us to build artifacts and documents which can then be shared directly or exported into a format that is easily shareable and sent to our clients.
The adoption of Lucidchart across the enterprise has allowed all our teams to be working in a single platform and speaking a single "language." This has contributed to more seamless handoffs and transitions as projects and customers are passed from one team to another and everyone is using a common tool.

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Ryan Merrell

Director, Digital Pharmacy Product

CoverMyMedsInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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