We compared Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and No Magic MagicDraw based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
The key differences between Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and No Magic MagicDraw lie in their strengths. Enterprise Architect is praised for its robust support for industry-standard modeling languages, advanced visualizations, and powerful customization capabilities. On the other hand, MagicDraw stands out for its comprehensive modeling capabilities, intuitive user interface, and efficient collaboration tools. While both have received positive feedback on customer service, pricing, and ROI, Enterprise Architect users have suggested improvements in user interface, collaboration features, and performance, whereas MagicDraw users have highlighted the need for a more intuitive interface and better performance.
Features: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect's valuable features include a comprehensive modeling repository, seamless integration with development tools, support for modeling languages, advanced visualizations, powerful customization, and extensive documentation. No Magic MagicDraw excels in its comprehensive modeling capabilities, intuitive interface, efficient collaboration tools, and support for multiple modeling languages.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect has been deemed reasonable and straightforward, with a flexible licensing process. On the other hand, users have found No Magic MagicDraw to be affordable with a hassle-free setup process and fair and flexible licensing terms., Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect offers substantial ROI based on user experiences, while No Magic MagicDraw receives positive feedback for its effective modeling capabilities, collaboration tools, ease of integration, and responsive customer support.
Room for Improvement: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect needs improvements in user interface, collaboration features, performance, integration with other tools, and intuitive functionalities. No Magic MagicDraw needs enhancements in user interface, user-friendliness, performance, and loading times.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect indicate that users may have spent separate timeframes on deployment, setup, and implementation. In contrast, the reviews for No Magic MagicDraw show more variation in the duration needed for these phases, with some users completing deployment in three months and others in one week. The setup phase for MagicDraw also varied from one week to an additional week after deployment., The customer service and support for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is highly praised for its prompt, helpful assistance. Users have found the support team responsive, knowledgeable, and efficient. On the other hand, No Magic MagicDraw also receives high appreciation for its excellent assistance. Users commend the responsive, knowledgeable, and friendly support team. Both products offer prompt and thorough responses to queries and timely assistance. Overall, users express satisfaction with the level of help and guidance provided by both customer service teams.
The summary above is based on 16 interviews we conducted recently with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and No Magic MagicDraw users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"There is a lot of documentation available on the Internet to understand its functionality."
"No Magic has the tools and capability to model a complete enterprise and all product lines."
"It is very user-friendly, and the customer service is really good."
"I like the traceability feature. Whoever is working with the product would be sure of the things that could be affected if they decided to affect one of the other companies. For example, let's say that an engineer starts a new project optimization problem by adjusting the thickness of metal sheets. However, the engineers only see a reduced number of affections, but when we use the requirement traceability, they can see the whole picture. That's the main aspect that we were promoting with this tool."
"The MBFC capability of MagicDraw is higher than the other competitors."
"The technical support is very good."
"I would rate MagicDraw a nine out of ten because of the price. Enterprise Architect has a lot of bugs and MagicDraw is a lot more accurate and flexible. It's a level better."
"It is pretty easy to use. It is pretty versatile."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports multiple modeling languages like ArchiMate for database design, software lifecycle visualization, and team management."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"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."
"Its traversability is most valuable. I can use ArchiMate, and I can create a UML model. ArchiMate is for logical enterprise architecture, UML is for software engineering, and BPMN is for business processes. I can build it to have multiple models, and they are also traversable, which is not something that every tool allows. If there is a huge organization, you can segment it and have separate models for business technology or internal resource management system. You don't need to keep them in one model, and you can decide to segregate them."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"It is an EA tool that is approved by Open Group. It is in the tool register of Open Group."
"Ability to maintain cross-references for all models in all levels - great tractability."
"The UI UX of the tool is not really user-friendly and needs to be completely reformed."
"When I am working with my Mac and I right-click to copy and paste, it doesn't work."
"They don't really support code engineering, and that's why we have to move to Enterprise Architect. MagicDraw is stuck at C++03 standards, whereas most C++ programs today want to use the latest definition of the C++ standards. We were at C++11, and we wanted to do code engineering with C++11 or 17, but they didn't support it. That pushed us into a different tool, which is Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"For the next releases, I would like to have them import requirements from other sources. They could make it very easy to do that because there are a lot requirements management tools like DOORS, D-O-O-R-S, Dynamic Object Oriented Management. A lot of folks use DOORS to create a requirement. For those requirements you allocate them to a component in the architecture and a verification method for that requirement. It would be good if we could import those into MagicDraw as components so you don't have to manually do these things."
"There could be a trial version for students."
"There are some technical features that you have to study and do research on to be able to understand."
"It's very focused on specific modern languages and it doesn't do necessarily general systems software engineering with diagrams. They should expand the diagram types for the languages."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
"It could be more user-friendly. The tools could be more simple to use. It's a very complex solution. Because I am a business analyst, I use these tools to manage requirements, and I make models in UML, BPMN, and ArchiMate, and it's complex. In the next release, I would like to see more integrations."
"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."
"It took me a while to figure out how to use the report generation features effectively. So, it would be really nice if they had a way to make that a little bit more interactive and a little bit more straightforward."
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
"Even if there are web-based tools in the Enterprise Architecture tool ecosystem (like Prolaborate), the main modeling application is still a fat client application."
"The database management area was not usable."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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No Magic MagicDraw is ranked 10th in Business Process Design with 17 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. No Magic MagicDraw is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of No Magic MagicDraw writes "Pretty easy to use and versatile, but doesn't support code engineering and can be overly complicated at times". 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". No Magic MagicDraw is most compared with Visio, Visual Paradigm, Lucidchart, erwin Data Modeler by Quest and IBM System Architect, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, Lucidchart, LeanIX and ARIS BPA. See our No Magic MagicDraw vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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Sorry, don’t know about NIEM differences, but there are related online materials: www.sparxsystems.com
www.nomagic.com
Glen
I’m not sure about the question. Is it about the difference between No Magic and Sparx or about the Niem Plugin? Niem UML is an OMG standard and the two tool vendors have developed plugins for their tools to enable the Niem UML specification for the communities using it.
From Sparx:
National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) provides a common framework that is used to define how information can be shared between systems, government agencies and organizations. Enterprise Architect's MDG Technology for NIEM helps you to:
* Create and develop UML-based Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) models, by providing starter models, model patterns and a number of toolboxes for creating IEPD models and schema models,
* Generate complete IEPDs from your IEPD model
* Generate NIEM conformant schemas from your information models
* Import NIEM Reference Schema into your model
* Create NIEM subset namespaces, composed from elements of the NIEM Reference Schemas
* Create PIM, PSM and Model Package Description (MPD) diagrams, using the NIEM Toolbox pages
From No Magic:
NIEM-UML is a new standard being completed in the Object Management Group (OMG) with the support of the NIEM program management office, key NIEM experts and experts in modeling and model driven architecture.
NIEM-UML leverages the highly successful Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard to facilitate NIEM information sharing, reducing cost, time and risk while improving stakeholder engagement and reuse. NIEM-UML enhances the NIEM suite of specifications by providing a standard for:
· High-level and business focused representations of NIEM using UML
· A UML "Profile" which tailors UML tools to precisely represent NIEM
· The NIEM domain and core reference vocabularies as UML models
· Automated generation of NIEM exchange specifications (Called IEPDs –Information Exchange Package Documentation and MPDs – Model Package Descriptions) from NIEM-UML models, complete with XML Schema, catalogs and documentation
· Constraints to validate NIEM conformance
· Support for NIEM naming and design rules (NDR) 1.3 and NIEM Model Package Description (MPD) specification 1.0.
· Reverse engineering of existing NIEM assets into UML
Please rephrase the question if this does not help.
Best regards
Icky
I only worked in testing Sparx Enterprise Architect as a replacement for ERwin data modeler. I did not work with No Magic so I don’t know the differences. However, I found this pdf: www.uwm.edu.pl
I searched on differences between no magic and sparx enterprise architect.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
I do not know about plug-in but Sparx has six NIEM tagged values (architecture meta data)