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Great Collaboration and Easy to use tool for diagraming

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps create Sequence diagrams , component diagram, workflows etc for our product and software services. This helps to collaborate better being remote team to brainstorm and express our design and thought process, identify issues early on, get sign off from stakeholders. It also helps to get feedback from SMEs and identify corner cases or use cases missed

Pros

  • Easy to use and create diagram specially mermaid diagrams
  • Collaborative where easy to share with team members to do join design work
  • Many great add ons like Azure/Google/AWS icons/blocks so its easy to represent components and technology thats being used in our service

Cons

  • Easy to search for components thats similar instead of exact match like Natural Language processing
  • mechanism to request for editing permission for Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite diagrams that were shared
  • Better template or custom template that we can build using natural language

Return on Investment

  • Improved productivity as can express more quickly
  • Collaboration helps come to conclusion
  • Better throughput as its easy to use

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visio

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio, Google Workspace, Slack

Lucidchart Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For my department, we are primarily using Lucidchart as a process visualization tool. Wwe use it to document workflows, department, SOPs, handoffs, so that we have something we can give people rather than just a verbal training or a text document, so something visual they can look at.

Pros

  • We had been Visio users for a long time as a lot of companies with the Microsoft Suite are. I think Lucidchart for us is a more accessible version of that kind of process visualization. It's easier for untrained and unskilled users to just get in and start building something. And so for us, that means that we can kind of push the documentation requirements out to a broader range of people because it's easier to use. People understand, it's intuitive, and they can start documenting what their departments do and create lasting documentation that persistent the company.

Cons

  • Honestly, nothing jumps out. If I had to give a room for improvement off the top of my head, I think it's probably the internal search feature. When you're trying to figure out what shape you want or pull in a customized visualization object like a swim lane or something to that effect, you kind of have to know what that's called. And for some of our users that are new and don't necessarily know the terminology, it's hard for them to find the thing that they're looking for.

Return on Investment

  • I don't know that we measure it that way. For us, it's more about the persistence of company knowledge, particularly as you go through organizational change, as people come and go, as your leadership changes or strategy changes, do you know what people were doing last year? Do you know if you hire somebody new, how you should be training them? And if you have this suite of documents that past team members have made, it's much easier to onboard, which means you can move faster, right? And you need to change direction.

Usability

A lightweight, simple but powerful handy tool in your everyday work

Pros

  • Light-weight
  • Simple interface, easy to learn and use
  • Collaborate and share easily
  • Flexible and powerful to develop the diagrams

Cons

  • Haven't see the need for improvement yet

Return on Investment

  • Improved productivity
  • Improved collaborations

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Microsoft Visio

Other Software Used

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Visio

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite to build AWS architecture diagrams. I also use it to describe application flows for different stakeholders.

using Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite allows us to collaborate across multiple platforms without the need for a office 365 license. Collaborating with vendors and third parties makes it externally easy as well. Easy to use product

Pros

  • Cross platform
  • Web based interface
  • Sso login

Cons

  • Adjusting sizes by property manually
  • Dragging images bigger can be more precise

Return on Investment

  • Productivity gains
  • Time savings
  • Faster collaborations

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visio

Other Software Used

Slack, GitHub Copilot

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is the GOAT for collaboration internally and externally

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for our clients as we are a tech company that half of us are in sales and product development, and the other half are implementors and consultants for our clients. So either we are using the tools for internal collaboration between product and sales to give potential customers the best demos we can, or as consultants we can collaborate with outside clients as to diagram their use cases and needs to demonstrate how we can improve their business processes.

Pros

  • Lucid Chart diagrams processes very well
  • It allows for project managment to help with client timelines
  • Can help with org design

Cons

  • The tutorials could always be improved.
  • AI can we integrated so I can ask the AI tool how to do something in Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, and it will tell me how to do it.

Return on Investment

  • It makes process mapping so much quicker and visually engaging for clients
  • Overall ease to modify timelines and requirements.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Smartsheet

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Slack, NetSuite ERP, Fathom AI