Reviews of Gliffy

Overall: Gliffy IT Product has been million organisation UML diagramming and file sharing tool choice comprising all modules under one room.

Pros: Simple and multi-device SSO/OBC-L WYSIWYG with pre-built custom LMS for drag-drop /copy -paste. UML architect drawing tools alignment and automations with colours automations. Best for online file sharing. Intuitive cloud data migration.

Cons: Since implementation,it has been our best for cloud UML diagramming. Therefore no single con to register.

Overall: Overall my experience with Gliffy is an average. I hope they can add more features which are available with the other tools in the market. There are some great features and there are some picky stuff which can be relooked for better user experience.

Pros: Not much but, I like couple of things like the option from the left panel to add more shapes. This is really a good addition to the tool and the expand and collapse of the left panel is great feature. When we want a room to work on the board we can collapse the left panel and expand it when ever it's required. along with that the resource option which is there in the bottom right corner also a good feature. When there is a new feature enabled, we can have a quick glance to check from there.

Cons: The connector tool has a wired behavior some times. After adding the shape, I am not able to add the connectors. I have to click on some other shape in the left pane and then I need to re-select the connectors. This is really frustrating some time. Also the free/trial version if they can share all the features or more features, users can check it out and evaluate the product if they can use it or not, instead of go for a paid version to check all the features.

Pros: This was easy to use and made explaining tech workflows and processes easier.

Cons: We actually don't use Gliffy anymore because while it was great with Confluence, we needed it to be more versatile and integrate with other applications, so we switched to Lucidchart.

Reasons for Choosing Gliffy: We did not - we chose Lucidchart over the Gliffy.

Overall: Multi-linguigal cloud software for bringing teams together via VC, VOip audio, BIM persistent rooms architecture drawing. Online file sharing.

Pros: It has extreme setups and plugins. Alignment or design drawing tools and integration. IRC-Style featured BIM persistent chatting rooms. Cloud file sharing services. CVC and live conversation support. VOip audio calls and charts drawing.

Cons: Gliffy IT software Product has fully optimized design drawings, team collaboration and color drawing design tools automation.

Pros: I like the Gliffy is easy to use and integrates well with the rest of the Atlassian stack. This allows us to keep track of the documents created and search for them later. The functionality is comparable to the traditional market leader and has a robust set of inbuilt graphic elements.

Cons: I would like the see a data-driven model allowing me to have live diagrams that pull from outside databases.

Pros: Gliffy Diagram est doté de fonctionnalités professionnelles sécurisées qui en font un excellent outil pour tous les types d’utilisateurs. Grâce à ce programme, il est possible de créer, de modifier et de partager de nombreux modèles de diagrammes. De plus, Gliffy, doté d’une interface conviviale, est facile à utiliser tout en disposant de toutes les fonctions essentielles à la conception de diagrammes et d'organigrammes.

Cons: La version gratuite est limitée, ce qui est frustrant, et l’abonnement est un peu cher. De plus, certaines fonctionnalités sont difficiles à utiliser pour un débutant. Enfin, le programme peut se montrer instable lorsque le contenu est trop important

Pros: Favourite Confluence plugin. I use this extensively at work. It has just about everything for creating diagrams - flowcharts, floorplans, electrical diagrams, rack diagrams e.t.c. I think it rivals (maybe even supersede) Visio.

Cons: Bug!!! Something does not like Google Chrome. Usually this is fixed on the next release of either Chrome, Gliffy plugin or Confluence. Does not cause problems, just an annoying pop up to report the issue.

Overall: Gliffy is easier to learn than Visio, fairly intuitive and the common functions you need are close to hand (on right click or contextual menu button close to selected item). Was quicker to draw a medium complexity diagram with boxes and connectors than Visio (or Powerpoint), and the resulting diagram looked good. Good range of available symbols and easy to add your own stencils from a SVG-based artwork (and JPG importing was easy too). Small native file format, and it is text based (JSON) so it is searchable (and hackable if needed). But there are limitations, which means it for the most complex or structured diagrams it can't replace Visio, OmniGraffle, or a Architecture tool (and would not replace Autocad or similar either) I can see this may work better on tablets/touch screens than Visio No bulleted text/numbered lists Connectors won't "hoop" over lines, and you can't add additional bends in connectors (there are workarounds--import "hoop" shape or use a UML shape to fake a hoop with multiple lines) Can't have text less than 9px in size. Limited import and export options. But the product is continuously developing.

Pros: Quick Free versions available Lots of integrations: Chrome, Google Drive, Google Docs Addin, MS word Addin, Confluence. Allows sharing of diagrams to multiple collaborators. Not very expensive

Cons: Free version will make your diagrams public after 15 days. You have to pay desperately for each integration: e.g. a paid for confluence license won't equate Visio import has to be paid for. non-standard file format (JSON instead of GraphML)

Pros: I use gliffy with Confluence multiple times per week. It is certainly handy to have it built into a collaborative tool like Confluence, but its drawing abilities are limited. It absolutely saves time to have Gliffy as a widget built into Confluence. It is portable (works across any browser).

Cons: Worse than the limits is the performance for larger drawings. Once I've gotten into complex drawing with thousands of objects it gets INCREDIBLY slow. While I've had offers from Atlassian to help, this really is just their software limitations. I've had the problems across three different customer/work environments in which I've used Confluence to document large scale process improvements, flow charts, or network diagrams.

Overall: Over het algemeen ben ik wel tevreden met Gliffy. De tool bied mij waarvoor ik het wil gebruiken, en dat is snel en overzichtelijk diagrammen in elkaar zetten.

Pros: Gliffy heeft eigenlijk alle veel gebruikte diagrammen wel en zijn ook makkelijk te vinden. Het is te exporteren naar pdf of afbeelding en dat is ook fijn. En het is geimporteerd in Jira, het programma dat wij gebruiken.

Cons: Zo af en toe, als je grotere diagrammen aan het maken bent dan verspringt de diagram vaak. Pijlen sluiten net niet lekker aan hoe je wil. En als je ergens iets begint te verslepen raakt alles uit zijn verband.

Overall: Limited Customization Options: Some users may find that Gliffy's customization options are limited compared to other diagramming tools, which can make it challenging to create very specific or unique diagrams.

Pros: A comprehensive guide on how to use Gliffy's features to create different types of diagrams, such as flowcharts, org charts, network diagrams, and more.

Cons: Limited Customization Options: Some users may find that Gliffy's customization options are limited compared to other diagramming tools, which can make it challenging to create very specific or unique diagrams.

Overall: I document process flows for software, data flow, and network diagrams. Gliffy works great for me because I can create it in Confluence on a Wiki page and edit it real-time in a quick efficient manner.

Pros: The ease of use and quick learning curve make Gliffy a top choice. If you do not need all the functionality of Visio but need to diagram or show flows, it provides the ability to document processes and diagrams in a simple quick and easy manner. Gliffy is intuitive to use, pulling shapes onto the canvas, color palette and test information right there. It also integrates with Confluence making a Wiki page diagram an easy activity.

Cons: There are a few areas where Gliffy is not intuitive and it lacks an easy explanation/help/ However since it's very intuitive to use, this is not a large problem.

Overall: I have been using Gliffy Diagram for several years and I have been thoroughly impressed with the cool set of tools and their deployment model. When it comes to putting together software architecture diagrams I do not even think of any other tools these days. Excellent work team. Thank you.

Pros: Ability to be used as an extension within the other document curation tools like Chalk and all within the browser. Nicely organized set of really good and relevant pre-defined components that really helps quickly drawing an idea into a diagram.

Cons: At times, the components become a little bit shaky that they do not behave exactly as they should. Some times memory consumptions becomes a little too heavy for a browser to handle especially for large diagrams.