The product is not very user-friendly. It takes time to learn the concept. The user-friendliness and the learning curve must be improved. It takes quite a lot of time for experienced engineers to use.
Group IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2023-02-13T20:28:00Z
Feb 13, 2023
Diagram edits take a few minutes to update or require a manual refresh. If we make a change in an enterprise architect diagram, then we want to assume everything is up to date on the documentation side. That isn't always the case after many minutes, so a manual step is required to refresh the link. The solution could offer different sources for design. We currently use Lucidchart but would like additional options. Some vendors provide support on the back end for things like verification of the reference architecture so you don't have to design it yourself.
They are introducing a feature soon that I was expecting in the version that I have now for editing diagrams. However, you cannot, you can only translate documents, but I think this is a part of the new release that is coming at the end of the year. In the next release, there should be more editable objects. We find Sparx Prolaborate very user-friendly, and having more features that are in the Enterprise Architect would be great, such as managing different versions of diagrams.
Group Product Manager – Billing and Payments at MultiChoice Group
Real User
2021-08-17T19:19:02Z
Aug 17, 2021
A lot of product teams use a lot of visualizations for mapping out the product roadmap, brainstorming, or understanding the vision of the product, but Sparx is not a great visualization tool. Sparx has to improve the way for visualizing processes, journeys, software designs, etc. It would really benefit the product management teams or even enterprise architects. It is a little bit clunky when it comes to visualization and the ability to see everything that you're modeling for your organization at a glance. We really need the ability to visualize the organizational structure at a high level and drill down to specific detail. It doesn't do that well. We can model our entire customer journey in Sparx, but it is not visually compelling. It doesn't give you a nice visual high-level map of the customer journey like MURAL.
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The product is not very user-friendly. It takes time to learn the concept. The user-friendliness and the learning curve must be improved. It takes quite a lot of time for experienced engineers to use.
Diagram edits take a few minutes to update or require a manual refresh. If we make a change in an enterprise architect diagram, then we want to assume everything is up to date on the documentation side. That isn't always the case after many minutes, so a manual step is required to refresh the link. The solution could offer different sources for design. We currently use Lucidchart but would like additional options. Some vendors provide support on the back end for things like verification of the reference architecture so you don't have to design it yourself.
There should be more cloud capabilities.
They are introducing a feature soon that I was expecting in the version that I have now for editing diagrams. However, you cannot, you can only translate documents, but I think this is a part of the new release that is coming at the end of the year. In the next release, there should be more editable objects. We find Sparx Prolaborate very user-friendly, and having more features that are in the Enterprise Architect would be great, such as managing different versions of diagrams.
A lot of product teams use a lot of visualizations for mapping out the product roadmap, brainstorming, or understanding the vision of the product, but Sparx is not a great visualization tool. Sparx has to improve the way for visualizing processes, journeys, software designs, etc. It would really benefit the product management teams or even enterprise architects. It is a little bit clunky when it comes to visualization and the ability to see everything that you're modeling for your organization at a glance. We really need the ability to visualize the organizational structure at a high level and drill down to specific detail. It doesn't do that well. We can model our entire customer journey in Sparx, but it is not visually compelling. It doesn't give you a nice visual high-level map of the customer journey like MURAL.