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Gliffy

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What is Gliffy?

Gliffy is an online diagramming tool with collaboration features from the San Francisco company of the same name, offering standalone versions of Gliffy and integrated versions for Jira and Confluence.

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Gliffy Reviewed

Erwin Raaphorst
Web Designer in Marketing at Good Websites (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Gliffy to create wireframes as part of our web design process. It is user-friendly and provides a quick way to generate wireframes.

Pros

  • creating website wireframes
  • create a consistent style
  • low learning base

Cons

  • A better web based layout
  • Easier to upload own elements

Return on Investment

  • reduced the time spent on creating website wireframes
  • user-friendly interface allows to quickly adopt and integrate it into our workflow

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Figma

Other Software Used

Figma

Best application for a productive workflow chart.

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Corporate (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Building a chart flow for the complicated setup of the work builds up a productive work culture in a very systematic and amazing way. The idea builds in a chart to help to create a pattern of targets and deadlines needed to be achieved in an amazing manner. The development is so well structured that the integrations support the idea well, giving an outstanding product with great achievement. Gliffy is very easy to learn and has a lot of great functions and tools to help with what needs to be customized.

Pros

  • Making diagram workflow.
  • Integration with Confluence.
  • Building up Graph.

Cons

  • User interface.
  • It takes much to load sometimes.
  • Becomes slow when building large charts.

Most Important Features

  • Copy and paste feature.
  • Graph insertion.
  • Warning sign of unpublished changes.

Return on Investment

  • Its been a helpful product for presentation.
  • Easy to load.
  • Sometimes slow features are very frustrating.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Balsamiq, Lucidchart and Miro

Other Software Used

ZBrush, Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Advertising Cloud

Gliffy for architecture documentation.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Gliffy together with Confluence to be able to illustrate the architecture and design solutions integrated with textual documentation. Gliffy makes it possible to store and manage versions together with textual documentation. It solves the problem that when someone wants to change an illustration, they don’t have to find the original instead, they can edit it directly on the Confluence page.

Pros

  • Integration with Confluence.
  • Simple UML diagrams.
  • No need to install desktop software on each client.

Cons

  • It’s missing good auto layout functionality.
  • It would be good if it’s was easier to export a bitmap or vector image.
  • Resizing UML symbols make them look a bit strange, especially component object.

Most Important Features

  • Integration with Confluence.
  • Affordable
  • Easy to learn.

Return on Investment

  • Save time since we no longer have to spend time searching for original image files.
  • Easy to manage since there is no need to install software on each client.
  • More people are willing to spend time updating the documentation.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Powerpoint

Other Software Used

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Microsoft Visio, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

Explain processes and structures with a diagram with ease

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Gliffy when I need to explain something and/or document something. This ranges from software related diagrams, like ERD, Architectural diagrams or deployment diagrams to name a few. The easy of use is great, especially because I can use it directly within Confluence.

Pros

  • easy of use
  • diagramming
  • flowcharting
  • collaboration

Cons

  • a few more options could be added
  • text placement can turn out poorly

Most Important Features

  • diagrams
  • integration with confluence
  • collaboration

Return on Investment

  • it has saved a lot of time due to ease of use
  • helps people understand things faster when you can make a clear drawing on the spot.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Powerpoint and Balsamiq

Other Software Used

Miro

Getting Gliffy with it!

Incentivized
Richard Perroset
Senior Marketing Leader in Marketing at Covered California (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Templates make getting started fast and simple
  • Intuitive Flash interface makes it easy learn for beginners

Cons

  • The limitation on the color customization of the diagrams.
  • There are bugs in the view via web browsers like Google Chrome
  • Should provide an ability to download diagrams in various available formats

Return on Investment

  • Favorite Confluence plugin.
  • I use this extensively at work. It has just about everything for creating diagrams - flowcharts, floorplans, electrical diagrams, rack diagrams etc.
  • I think it rivals (maybe even surpasses) Visio.
  • It is easy and simple to use.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, Creately and draw.io

Other Software Used

Google Analytics Premium, Oracle Eloqua, Twilio SMS

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