We performed a comparison between SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."Traceability is a fantastic feature."
"The system provides powerful tools for obtaining reports and documentation."
"There are a couple of things. Price is one thing, but we also like the scriptability of it. We got into scripting it and automating tasks with it, and it is super duper easy to do and helpful. The API has improved over the years. We automate everything, and I love the automation aspects of it."
"We can easily use it with our new customers."
"Using Sparx Enterprise Architect allowed my customer to detail and make the company's IT strategy visible and accessible to all. The system provided clear roadmaps for IT development and helped to keep up-to-date documentation of systems and processes."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"The algorithm is outdated and should be upgraded."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"The documentation could be better. Where I work, we speak French and we don't speak English, so we don't have anything in French. It's perfect in English, but we need something in French."
"Not visually appealing."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"The integration could be improved."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
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SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is ranked 19th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is rated 8.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer writes "Great training available with traceability a key feature". 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". SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is most compared with SAP PowerDesigner and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and Lucidchart.
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