We performed a comparison between ARIS Cloud 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 solution's most valuable feature stems from its being very easy to use, making it a very user-friendly tool."
"In terms of using the cloud version, if you're somebody who, like myself, has got a lot of experience and understands measures and notations and things, basically it's unrestricted. You can do so many things. You can do your Archimaze, you can do BPMN. There's lots of stuff you can do in there and if you're a good field person and you cause yourself re-using things or whatever, then it's very nice, it's very easy to use."
"This solution has improved the way our organization does training."
"The most valuable feature is GUI; it is very intuitive and easy to use."
"From a total cost of ownership perspective, running this on the cloud is more efficient than having someone in the company take care of the infrastructure."
"It has proved that it also works in complex circumstances."
"Aris Connect opens collaboration opportunities between team members within the organization where they can actually submit change requests, navigate processes, and offer comments. It opens up the potential for BPM within the organization. I didn't see such an angle of a BPM portal with any other products. So I would say that's the best selling feature."
"The cloud version has the advantage that you can work on it from anywhere."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"Its ease of use and the breadth of the toolkit are most valuable. It has an incredible repository of artifacts to work with, and they're all cross-referenced. It works with a whole bunch of different standards. It works with BPMN, which is Business Process Modeling Notation, and it also works with something called TOGAF, which is the Open Group Architecture Foundation. There are different layers when you're dealing with architecture. There is the user interface, application, data, data servers, and all that kind of stuff. You have the infrastructure, hardware, and software layers, and then you have the application and business capability layers. You can model a business process and decompose it into all of the applications, data, and hardware to support it."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"The price is quite high. This is one weak point of the solution."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"On an enterprise level, the ability to onboard somebody quickly is cumbersome because it just has too many things in it. It's got something like a hundred or more techniques and things in it."
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"The trial version of this solution does not give you enough time to learn how to use it, so it should be extended to one year."
"If you have multiple tiers of approvals into that update of the policy, or the process design itself, it takes ages to prepare those internal flows within the system."
"The support team of ARIS Cloud has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It would be very helpful if this solution were more open and could integrate with other solutions like ServiceNow."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
"The modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"It would be great if we could decrease the use of different parts of the Toolbox."
"Inconsistent UI elements must be tidied up with the toolbox gaps removed."
"The UI is a little bit outdated. It should be more fresh and clean."
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ARIS Cloud is ranked 17th in Business Process Design with 12 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. ARIS Cloud is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS Cloud writes "There has been a dramatic improvement in the ease of use as well as the accessibility and interconnectivity of information". 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 Cloud is most compared with ARIS Architect and Designer, SAP Signavio Process Manager, IBM Blueworks Live, Microsoft Azure and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and Lucidchart. See our ARIS Cloud vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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