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Avolution ABACUS pros and cons

Vendor: Avolution

4.0 out of 5

15 reviews
88% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Avolution ABACUS is customizable and scalable, providing valuable traceability and enterprise architecture analysis with a meta-model, messaging, and simulation features. Despite limitations on Mac or Linux and a need for improved technical support, ABACUS offers responsive assistance and detailed solutions. Customization requires specific configurations, adding complexity. Regional support challenges exist. Despite these, Avolution ABACUS remains a versatile tool for businesses requiring detailed enterprise analysis capabilities.

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PROS

Avolution ABACUS can be dynamically customized to meet changing business needs.

It offers valuable traceability features, allowing objects to be interconnected and relationships easily displayed.

Technical support for Avolution ABACUS is responsive and provides detailed answers.

Avolution ABACUS is scalable and stable for roadmapping and modeling, featuring comprehensive dashboards and portfolio management.

It allows for flexible enterprise architecture analysis and features like simulation and messaging.

CONS

Avolution ABACUS cannot run on a Mac or Linux, which imposes limitations.

There are integration issues with Microsoft Office and other software.

Regional support and flexibility in model selection need improvement.

It requires designing dashboards, lacking built-in intelligence.

Technical support in certain regions, especially Europe, needs enhancement.

Avolution ABACUS Pros review quotes

BPM Expert at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Sep 15, 2019

If you face new challenges or issues then you can dynamically customize according to the business needs.

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Senior R&D Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Sep 25, 2019

The most valuable feature is the traceability, you can trace any object to the other.

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Enterprise Architect at Enterprise Architecture Perspectives

Mar 9, 2020

The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key.

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Lead Enterprise Domain Architects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 13, 2022

The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed.

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Enterprise Architect at Enterprise Architecture Perspectives

Nov 17, 2020

The ease of modeling and the ease of showing interconnectivity and relationships is the most valuable. It is fairly simple and out of the box. It is customizable in many ways. It is a pretty good tool.

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Enterprise Digital Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

May 8, 2021

There are plenty of features available such as the ability to test applications for issues and a user-friendly dashboard.

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Enterprise Architect at Enterprise Architecture Perspectives

Dec 23, 2021

There are a lot of different features, but the business/decision-maker feature, visibility, and dashboards are most valuable.

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SB

Storekeeper at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 12, 2022

It's more than just an enterprise architecture tool as it has a lot of nice features, e.g. messaging, simulation, etc.

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Senior Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 24, 2022

Scalable and stable tool for roadmapping and modeling, with a good dashboard, end-to-end impact analysis, and portfolio management.

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Lead Enterprise Domain Architects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2023

It is a very stable solution...The initial setup of Avolution ABACUS is very easy.

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Avolution ABACUS Cons review quotes

BPM Expert at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Sep 15, 2019

If they want to expand in the European market then they are going to have to improve their technical support.

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Senior R&D Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Sep 25, 2019

While this is one of the most powerful tools on the market it does not integrate well with Microsoft Office or others.

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Enterprise Architect at Enterprise Architecture Perspectives

Mar 9, 2020

The reporting could be easier to configure.

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Lead Enterprise Domain Architects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 13, 2022

The company needs to update the UML version they are using for the product as it is quite old.

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Enterprise Architect at Enterprise Architecture Perspectives

Nov 17, 2020

It doesn't have the simulation capability, which would be helpful in doing some business process analysis and improvements.

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ST

Enterprise Digital Solution Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

May 8, 2021

In the future, there could be improvements in integration and enhancements.

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Enterprise Architect at Enterprise Architecture Perspectives

Dec 23, 2021

I use reference models, which are taxonomies, in my EA work. It is a reference model/taxonomy of things with capabilities, sub capabilities, and sub-sub capabilities, so you're working it down. I haven't yet found a simple way to implement that in Abacus. It could be that it is there, but I don't know how to do it.

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SB

Storekeeper at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 12, 2022

Having more control over page size is lacking in this product. Print utilization also needs to be improved.

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IS

Senior Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 24, 2022

Their local presence in the Middle East could be scaled more, particularly in customer service. It would be good if they'd also have mobile dashboards for executive management out of the box.

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Lead Enterprise Domain Architects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2023

The usability of the tool is an area with shortcomings that need improvement.

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