We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and No Magic MagicDraw based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"ARIS BPA has a good directory option, which helps to keep track of all of your metadata, and that's very useful."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"The most valuable feature in the latest versions is the connect portal, where you can do very simple modeling using the web-based portal."
"you want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"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."
"It is pretty easy to use. It is pretty versatile."
"It is very user-friendly, and the customer service is really good."
"The most valuable features are the visibility, standard compliance, and interface."
"No Magic has the tools and capability to model a complete enterprise and all product lines."
"The technical support is very good."
"The beauty of MagicDraw is that it has a simulation part, so you can simulate your model to validate it. The simulation allows you to bring in code off of an external code that you can write to set up the simulation and execute the code."
"There is a lot of documentation available on the Internet to understand its functionality."
"One of the issues is, when you are defining databases, the way they use entities and relationship diagrams, the way we can define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."
"The integration between ARIS, webMethods, and project versions needs improvement."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"Displaying role allocation matrix models in ARIS Connect needs improvement."
"The areas of ARIS where we see room for improvement are actually related to the background services that support it. Over the last number of years, Software AG has moved from an on-premises solution into deploying a SaaS solution to their enterprise base. That has been really successful from my point of view, as I have been a customer of ARIS, managing the relationship, for a couple years. Certain support functions around the knowledge base, customer service, and the cross and upselling of modules within the core ARIS component are lagging behind the SaaS movement."
"The cost of upgrading the product should be lower."
"The licenses are expensive compared to similar tools. At the moment, the user is open to using MagicDraw if it's 15% more than other solutions. If it were to cost any more, they wouldn't use it."
"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."
"There are some technical features that you have to study and do research on to be able to understand."
"I would like to see the ability to deploy live business process models and capture real-time data (without the need for another product tool) so you don't have to be dependent on other products for this functionality."
"There's lots of documentation. They process multiples of guides. They've got all kinds of guides and documentation out there, but it's kind of hard to find. There are a lot of videos. You can go to YouTube and find videos on how it's been used in different ways, but it just kind of scratches the surface."
"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."
"When I am working with my Mac and I right-click to copy and paste, it doesn't work."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while No Magic MagicDraw is ranked 10th in Business Process Design with 17 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while No Magic MagicDraw is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, 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". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas No Magic MagicDraw is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, Visual Paradigm, Lucidchart and Camunda. See our ARIS BPA vs. No Magic MagicDraw report.
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