We performed a comparison between SAP Signavio Process Manager 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."I have done a lot of modeling over quite a number of years, and I think that the modeling capabilities in Signavio are state of the art."
"The collaboration function in the project views is valuable because people can comment on the processes and we can respond."
"I would say the collaboration features are very useful to us, because we are a European organization, so we are not in one location. This is an easy way to share with other people and ask them for feedback. That is the use case for us."
"One of the most valuable features is ease of use which has really been a good thing to put into the business. People like tools that they can just pick up and use straight-away."
"The collaboration hub, which helps us in terms of being able to communicate with our customers, brings everybody into the tool and close to the process, allowing them to comment and to implement their own processes."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The product's most valuable feature is the transformation process."
"We could increase the transparency and speed for the new ERP introduction. The status and changes by the new system are now clear to everybody and it is a great tool to train the people."
"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 company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"It is a useful tool for modeling and testing automated processes."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"I like that there is support for software patterns."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"We have found the stability to be very reliable."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"I would like to be able to include images in the documentation."
"The user administration, the user-group administration, and the license models need improvement."
"For me, given I've got a lot of experience working with BPMN and other process management tools, in terms of the interface, I think there's a little bit more that can be improved to match what the conventional BPMN offers. I've been constantly trying to give this feedback to Signavio, to let them know that it needs to be more coherent with the original BPMN version of the stencil."
"I think the biggest selling point that Signavio talks about is its collaborative aspect. However, there's still a lot more improvement in terms of what they can do, how they receive comments, address comments, whether they actually provide feedback, etc. There is still a little bit more improvement to be made on those areas."
"I would like to see more predictive analytics. The tool already has all the process maps, but it could offer a more proactive improvement offering. For example, they could put a little bit more machine learning behind it."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting function. At the moment, for example, while it is possible to report on how many users you had in the last month, you can't use it to tell you how many users you had from the first week to the second week. This is really a drawback because when you have an activity to promote Signavio or BPI, it would be good to be able to measure how many people you had in the system."
"One of the most important points in Signavio that would be a great change would be the management of variants of the process."
"It could use a better user interface, one that is more efficient."
"The initial setup of the Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect It's very complicated. It's very difficult to start with the right templates because there are many possibilities. The deployment took approximately two days."
"The documentation needs a bit of improvement. What I find is that when I'm trying to do something specific for some part of a project, in terms of documentation, it's kind of hard to get at figuring out if you don't use it all the time."
"Because its easy to create diagrams one needs to be vigilant on the housekeeping of orphaned fragments - I have written my own scripts to do this, maybe they are available now."
"They should make the Save button easier to find. A simplified user interface for a lighter user would probably be useful. I am not sure if such an interface is already there."
"Its best features are not intuitive or easy to learn. Most companies I have worked with, when I see what they are doing with it , are not using more than 5% of what they could and should be doing with it."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
"This solution is quite complex to use. It would be nice if the learning curve wasn't so steep."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
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SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 58 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". 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". SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, ARIS BPA, Camunda, Visio and ARIS Cloud, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and ADOIT. See our SAP Signavio Process Manager vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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