We performed a comparison between Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Architecture Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of this solution are its customizability, and flexibility in the configuration."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It takes two to three days to set up the environment. One person was able to handle the implementation."
"The taxonomy support across all the phases is the most advantageous feature."
"There are a lot of features in Enterprise Architect. It allows us to take on a lot of tasks."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"Its ease of use and the breadth of the toolkit are most valuable. It has an incredible repository of artifacts to work with, and they're all cross-referenced. It works with a whole bunch of different standards. It works with BPMN, which is Business Process Modeling Notation, and it also works with something called TOGAF, which is the Open Group Architecture Foundation. There are different layers when you're dealing with architecture. There is the user interface, application, data, data servers, and all that kind of stuff. You have the infrastructure, hardware, and software layers, and then you have the application and business capability layers. You can model a business process and decompose it into all of the applications, data, and hardware to support it."
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."
"The system provides powerful tools for obtaining reports and documentation."
"Sparx technical support is good."
"The user experience, the layout and the different technologies behind the presentations are a bit old. These need to be updated. They should focus on web development. It's simply not supporting the current user experience guidelines."
"The product is not great at implementing security frameworks across an end-to-end supply chain."
"We would like to see the visualization of assets, as well as artificial intelligence techniques to assist us in making our decisions."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"The stability and performance of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect could still be improved. Setup for it is also slightly complicated and could be improved."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"It took me a while to figure out how to use the report generation features effectively. So, it would be really nice if they had a way to make that a little bit more interactive and a little bit more straightforward."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to offer better support for the mobile-based system. Right now, it's not working."
"I think that collaboration can be better."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM feature can be improved to make it more interactive and user friendly because it is a tool for technical people. My current use is only for business process modeling notation and putting in the icons etc. You need to take them in as a class, which makes things very complex. Because of this complexity, it is not an easy-to-handle solution. Enterprise Architect is not very good for mockups. We cannot create user screens and other similar kinds of stuff, which is bad. For these things, we prefer to use Axure RP and other similar solutions. They should either remove this feature from this product or provide some kind of connectivity with Axure RP so that people can do better mockups of screens and import them. They need to augment and strengthen the BPM feature, which is the main feature. They need to put in some elements like artificial intelligence and augmented reality. They should look into such features because these things are coming up."
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Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management is ranked 13th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 3 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management is rated 7.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management writes "Great taxonomy support but raw business processing should be upgraded". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "Easy to set up and had no issues with stability, but it's not a very friendly tool, and its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement". Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management is most compared with LeanIX, iServer, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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