We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 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.
"The EPC modeling is very detailed, the semantic check is helpful, and auto-layout simplifies the formatting."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment."
"This solution has helped us in terms of discovering business processes."
"The ease of use is the most valuable. I have tried a number of BPMN packages, and I find the user interface of ARIS BPM easier and more intuitive than others. If your team is knowledgeable on BPMN, it is really pretty easy to figure out on your own because it adheres to the standards extremely well. I have tried Bizagi, BizFlow, and a variety of such solutions, and I just liked ARIS BPM better."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"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."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"There are a lot of features in Enterprise Architect. It allows us to take on a lot of tasks."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"It is a useful tool for modeling and testing automated processes."
"The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."
"Its most valuable feature is the Zachman Framework."
"Some improvements have been done, after Software AG acquired ARIS, but I don't believe it's still integrated with the other tool WebMethods in a perfect way."
"Regarding stability, when there are any customized settings being done at customer end - post upgrade to newer versions - it makes the customer environment unstable for a short duration."
"Making it more customizable and easy to learn would be a benefit."
"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."
"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."
"The solution is difficult and not very exciting to learn."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"The documentation needs a bit of improvement. What I find is that when I'm trying to do something specific for some part of a project, in terms of documentation, it's kind of hard to get at figuring out if you don't use it all the time."
"Its best features are not intuitive or easy to learn. Most companies I have worked with, when I see what they are doing with it , are not using more than 5% of what they could and should be doing with it."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
"In general, we now have a problem with Sparx Enterprise Architect because many analysts think it's too complicated to use in a giant environment."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
"Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance"
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. 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 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". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Bizagi and Visio, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and MEGA HOPEX. See our ARIS BPA vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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