We performed a comparison between LeanIX and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 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."Interfaces well with downstream systems of data."
"LeanIX has a great application information architecture."
"I like the tool’s integration and maps."
"The solution provides a single window view of business, application, data, and technology views of the IT ecosystem."
"For the reporting capabilities, LeanIX provides dashboards for different levels, including CXO dashboards. There are plenty of dashboards for reporting."
"LeanIX has good usability and stability. This SaaS is intuitive, easy to use, and comes with a nice reporting feature."
"I like LeanIX's ease of use in general."
"The solution has a very useful assessment tool that automatically populates from input data to produce a detailed analysis of customer's environments."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"I like Sparx's BPM features and the way it lets you create the diagram."
"The profiles allow me to customize the tool to the corporate environment instead of the other way around saving huge amounts of time and energy on trying to turn dozens of individuals into TOGAF, ArchiMate or Zachman experts, or even Sparx EA experts."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"Sparx technical support is good."
"The solution needs to incorporate a data patch tool that moves within and irons data."
"Does a poor job of being able to allocate detailed costings to components within the network."
"They could include a combination of LeanIX and some modeling extensions."
"LeanIX has limited in-build diagramming capabilities, requiring the purchase of another tool. That is the main drawback of LeanIX because they don't have a built-in add-on product for diagramming."
"The initial setup has room for improvement."
"What would make LeanIX better is more variety in terms of reporting, and more flexibility with its data importing feature."
"The solution uses Gartner's time-based framework for application rationalization. One more thing that you can consider is having some add-on frameworks for the same, not just Gartner."
"Report generation could be more detailed. There are some shortcomings when creating reports. We can't create tag-based reports or go beyond basic technical reports."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"What should be improved are the integration capabilities of the solution with Bizagi."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"I think the product is good. When I'm trying to do something specific for some part of project documentation, it's hard to get it figured out if you don't use it all the time. It's such a massive tool, it's hard to figure out how to dig in and get to the documentation where you have to be to get some idea of what to do. There are not a lot of examples that I'm aware of to be able to do that."
"The UI is a little bit outdated. It should be more fresh and clean."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"It would be great if we could decrease the use of different parts of the Toolbox."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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LeanIX is ranked 1st in Enterprise Architecture Management with 17 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. LeanIX is rated 8.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of LeanIX writes "Streamlines the process of identifying apps nearing end-of-life or requiring retirement and facilitates informed decisions about app retention". 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". LeanIX is most compared with ServiceNow, MEGA HOPEX, ADOIT, iServer and Avolution ABACUS, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and ARIS BPA. See our LeanIX vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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