We performed a comparison between Camunda 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."The most valuable feature is that, with a visual system, you can try to have a process client before beginning the programming for the application."
"We have been able to save costs using this solution compared to the product we used before."
"We are using the BPMN engine of Camunda; we are not using the user interface. We are using just the engine, the back end of this. For us, it is working quite well."
"The interface and the number of connectors that they provide are the most valuable features. The support here, it's kind of okay. But the main thing is with the number of connectors and the UI, the user interface."
", Camunda can be a powerful tool to work with when used in an optimized and well-implemented manner."
"Easy to use and easy to integrate into the products and applications we provide for our customers."
"Ease of use and ability to streamline a process model."
"Using the BPMN helps us to have a common shared communication language when discussing processes."
"The features I find most valuable is the ability to create a document and then put it into a OneCare artifact."
"Some of the business processes are very easy to compare when you have the diagrams."
"It is an EA tool that is approved by Open Group. It is in the tool register of Open Group."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the integrated data model, so if I change the name of an item, all models using that object are automatically updated."
"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."
"I like that there is support for software patterns."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
"There should be a multi-tenant solution for the platform where it supports multiple organizations on one platform instead of having to spin up multiple clusters for each organization. There should be an easy way to integrate different departments into one platform without having to operate multiple platforms. The operations should be easier with the enterprise solution. It should not create more overhead for the operations people."
"It has a Postgres database at the backend, and it is very difficult to scale if you increase the number of processes running. We did hit some barriers. We were able to overcome them, but it was a problem. Camunda has another product called Camunda Cloud, which supposedly doesn't have the same scalability problems, but we are not using Camunda Cloud because the set of features is smaller than Camunda On-Premises. So, its scalability can be improved. Because it has a single database, it is more difficult to scale if you have a huge success."
"Camunda Platform's customer support could be improved because their response is quite slow."
"If there were some industry templates it would have helped significantly, because it is similar to a process map for a domain. That is what we are currently creating, a domain-relevant process map."
"While it's very scalable, it would be great if auto-scaling capabilities were added to it... one area that really could help out would be to have dynamic resizing of the cluster. Right now, you have to do capacity planning."
"They have a migration plugin that can be used to migrate from one BPM to another BPM. It is in the beta stage since last year. If they can make it available in the market, it would be great. We are going to have a couple of migration projects for migrating from IBM BPM to Camunda, and this plugin would be useful. I have already discussed this with them two weeks ago and asked them to look into this and add it as a feature. We are expecting this plugin to be available in the next version. This is the only requirement we have at present. They keep on coming up with different features, which is helping us a lot. Its latest release that came out last month was awesome."
"Collaborations and process documentation in Camunda Platform are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"I think that collaboration can be better."
"Not visually appealing."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
"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."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"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 modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
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Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 71 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". 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". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and Appian, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw and LeanIX. See our Camunda vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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