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."In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"Aris BPA has a lot of tools that are more professional than Bizagi."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"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."
"Sparx technical support is good."
"It's like a repository. So far, we use it only for Information Modelling."
"Sparx offers good flexibility."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"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."
"I had this decentralization mission where I had some friendly fights with the consultants of Software AG. My opinion was the business department should be able to publish their processes and do all their evaluation stuff in ARCM themselves. It has to be a one stop shop. I want a one stop shop to go from ARIS BPM to ARIS ARCM, because having everything go through that would be an improvement due to the inputs that we made with Software AG. They will make it possible that the trigger sent from BPM to ARCM will start their object generation."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"User interface (UI)."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"I would like it to be less of a general tool. Currently, it is not a Swiss army knife that can do everything. It is not specialized for our purposes. We are a civil engineering company. We build things. We work mostly in what is known as Infra world in the Netherlands, which comprises objects such as bridges, locks, and water management. We would like to see more focus on such types of projects. It would be nice if it has more specializations. At the moment, it is very generic, and you have to create everything yourself. Our focus is more on user requirement management, which is currently very basic. I would like to see a lot more functionality in this area. Its basic functions for adding user requirements are perfect, but we need more features. Currently, it has limited possibilities for our requirements. I would also like to see better contract management and have it managed in a certain way."
"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."
"It really did not work for logical modeling. The look is very old-fashioned. You can't make the diagrams easy on the eye, so we ended up drawing them again in Visio anyhow."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"The window froze for five or ten seconds. You can click and click again and it takes a second to come up. It might have been specific to a version."
"The solution needs to offer better support for the mobile-based system. Right now, it's not working."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"No way to implement data integrity and referential integrity constraints."
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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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