We performed a comparison between iServer and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Architecture Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."iServer is a solution that helps catalog enterprise architect solutions and catalog information."
"The most valuable features of iServer are the integration with Microsoft Office and the interface is similar to Microsoft applications making them easy to use."
"We like the governance."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"The product has a valuable customized model."
"I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."
"There were lots of different requirements, and collaboration and review is one of the biggest things. There is also Office 360 integration, and there's flexibility to use it as a database as well."
"Very good repository features."
"It's a great tool for documentation."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"The physical database model is definitely the most valuable feature because it describes normalization exactly the way you understand the data, and it deploys it perfectly with open source systems."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a very fast reverse engineering process. It does a very expansive comparison."
"It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"Enhancing integration options with ERP or ITSM-related solutions for triggering automated requests for process definitions, changes, and tracking them in the iServer."
"There can be some performance issues using the solution that should be improved. When you make modifications modify to files there are embedded data within that can take a while to process."
"The migration tool needs to be included in the main package, and not as a separate license."
"The performance is slow, which is something that should be improved."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."
"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."
"It runs relatively slowly."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"I have found the solution not easy to use. When publishing you have to download the HTML, make adjustments against the updated HTML, convert it to HTML, then finally paste the HTML. There is not an on-the-fly function available to bypass the step-by-step converting process that other solutions have."
iServer is ranked 6th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 15 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, ARIS BPA, Visio and MEGA HOPEX, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and LeanIX. See our SAP PowerDesigner vs. iServer report.
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