We performed a comparison between Avolution ABACUS 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."You can design using a diagram tool installed on your desktop, a key difference from other vendors."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key."
"The most valuable feature is the traceability, you can trace any object to the other."
"Scalable and stable tool for roadmapping and modeling, with a good dashboard, end-to-end impact analysis, and portfolio management."
"The ease of modeling and the ease of showing interconnectivity and relationships is the most valuable. It is fairly simple and out of the box. It is customizable in many ways. It is a pretty good tool."
"The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed."
"There are a lot of different features, but the business/decision-maker feature, visibility, and dashboards are most valuable."
"The tool's implementation is straightforward as everything is readily available. For instance, setting up a portal is seamless, allowing easy publishing and access to data. However, integrating with other tools like BI, Power BI, or Grafana requires setting up pipelines between them."
"In terms of operational efficiency and cause savings or return on investment, I can say that with SAP PowerDesigner, our company saves a lot of time."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it's built very well, easy to use, and simple to describe freely what is needed in logical and physical data models."
"SAP PowerDesigner is an excellent tool that does what I need it to do. What I like most about it is that it's stable, fast, and easy to understand."
"Very good repository features."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"The most useful feature has been the detailed possibility to model almost anything regarding physical databases."
"Having more control over page size is lacking in this product. Print utilization also needs to be improved."
"The usability of the tool is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"They should take more initiative to implement things that competing products have already come out with."
"The tool doesn't have any intelligence built in. We have to design the dashboards ourselves, which is a challenge because we have to depend on the vendor for customizations."
"I use reference models, which are taxonomies, in my EA work. It is a reference model/taxonomy of things with capabilities, sub capabilities, and sub-sub capabilities, so you're working it down. I haven't yet found a simple way to implement that in Abacus. It could be that it is there, but I don't know how to do it."
"In the future, there could be improvements in integration and enhancements."
"The most valuable features are the catalog and the diagram."
"While this is one of the most powerful tools on the market it does not integrate well with Microsoft Office or others."
"There are some minor things that could be easier. We're writing up procedures to bring all the modeling back into one group as this reduces delays in production."
"The tool lags in the area of customer service."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"In the future, I would like to see data manipulation capability where you can actually write SQL queries and manipulate data from directly within the tool."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
Avolution ABACUS is ranked 8th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 14 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. Avolution ABACUS is rated 8.0, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Avolution ABACUS writes " An out of the box tool that creates reports on the fly that can help your client make better decisions". 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". Avolution ABACUS is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, MEGA HOPEX, Visio and ARIS BPA, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and LeanIX. See our Avolution ABACUS vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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