Best collaborative tool for Solution and Software Architects
April 10, 2024
Best collaborative tool for Solution and Software Architects
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Lucidchart
- Lucidspark
Overall Satisfaction with Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I built solutions designing and architecting to build artefacts and share it with customers or internal interests. We do implementations to customers to track how the tool is being used in their tech stack or how the data is flowing we build flow diagrams or architecture diagrams to have it documented
Pros
- Solutioning the custom solutions where we want to get clear understanding of how the tech stacks are being used
- Process flow diagrams
- Structure based designs and architecture
Cons
- Branded logos like AWS S3, SFTP etc.
- The AI generation is too basic. May be needs training with detailed data
- The chart when shared is sharing all the tabs. Can we limit to 1 tab
- Had a better performance within the team to share the architecture of implementation
- Best tool to collaborate with customers and deliver them their instance setup. This improved credibility
- Helped us save time by sharing and reusing arch diagrams
We currently integrated it with Confluence and Slack. Confluence is to have the documentation of the project we work on where arch diagram is key which is built using Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. Slack is to get notifications whenever someone mentions you to edit or review the chart. These integrations help us in efficiency and time saving
The capability to mention someone asking them to edit and track someone online in realtime while they are editing helps with on call building the doc in real time. It helps us to get the job done then and there instead of me doing the work and send it over to someone who edits it will become a rally and not efficient
draw.io is a free tool which has very limited functionality. Some of the advanced features like AI based generation and templates are not available in other applications. Also, I’ve used bot framework for different purposes. If customer wants to collaborate and they don’t have Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite I tend to build the same in draw.io
Do you think Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite's feature set?
Yes
Did Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite again?
Yes
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