We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."
"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the solution to fully customize the methodology according to the company's needs, and to enforce that methodology with features like filters, semantic checks, and reports."
"The BPMN notation and the share flow through users. It is nice to see all flows in a common, shared space for all the stakeholders to view the same thing and the same language."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Its ability to reference and link to components from any diagram."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"The system provides powerful tools for obtaining reports and documentation."
"It has led some teams to do better code reviews - to be less focussed on coding conventions (syntax) and more focussed on the semantics because of the abstraction level clear design affords."
"The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the cross and upselling of modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement."
"Some improvements have been done, after Software AG acquired ARIS, but I don't believe it's still integrated with the other tool WebMethods in a perfect way."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."
"Sometimes, ARIS BPA breaks down, and its stability can be improved."
"An area where it lacks and can be considered for improvement in the future is if we can somehow automate or learn how we can automate different processes."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"The UI is a little bit outdated. It should be more fresh and clean."
"This solution should have better ease of use for the uninitiated."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"The Portfolio Management features can be added in the next release. As it helps you to manage more portfolio of projects and architectures of cost projects on a portfolio level. This would be an important feature in the next release."
"I have found the solution is lacking options. The general usability needs improvement and more compliance to CML definitions."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"The modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". 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". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Bizagi and Visio, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and IBM Rational System Architect. See our ARIS BPA vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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