We performed a comparison between iServer and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 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."I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."
"This is a flexible tool compared to some other solutions."
"We like the governance."
"Integrating the Microsoft documents to the product and visualization matrix where we can see the end-to-end relationship of the network is of great importance to our company."
"The product has a valuable customized model."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"iServer has valuable features for workflow and document management."
"The solution is easily modified to suit your needs."
"The solution saved a lot of time, about 30%."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"It is an EA tool that is approved by Open Group. It is in the tool register of Open Group."
"Automated document generation is a real time saver, no more cut and paste, no more keeping track of which diagrams are in which reports, no more last minute update panics. Just click a mouse and you've got an up to date report."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"Large variety of profiles and frameworks available out-of-the-box without the need for customization."
"Provides a single repository for all architecture work."
"It definitely needs help to improve the visual aspect of the solution."
"The migration tool needs to be included in the main package, and not as a separate license."
"It runs relatively slowly."
"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."
"Requirements management needs to be improved."
"The performance is slow, which is something that should be improved."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"The modelling needs improvement, specifically forecasting capabilities and scenarios."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"The solution needs to offer better support for the mobile-based system. Right now, it's not working."
"The Portfolio Management features can be added in the next release. As it helps you to manage more portfolio of projects and architectures of cost projects on a portfolio level. This would be an important feature in the next release."
"Because its easy to create diagrams one needs to be vigilant on the housekeeping of orphaned fragments - I have written my own scripts to do this, maybe they are available now."
"The stability and performance of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect could still be improved. Setup for it is also slightly complicated and could be improved."
"It took me a while to figure out how to use the report generation features effectively. So, it would be really nice if they had a way to make that a little bit more interactive and a little bit more straightforward."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"The initial setup of the Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect It's very complicated. It's very difficult to start with the right templates because there are many possibilities. The deployment took approximately two days."
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iServer is ranked 6th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 15 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management 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". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Visio, ARIS BPA, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and ADOIT. See our Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect vs. iServer report.
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Hello,
My advise is to think about Mega EA, according to Garthner analysis , it
is the best EA tools in 2013 and 2014. and since I am using it, I can tell
you that is definitely the best EA tools in my opinion.
I have not used those two. I have used/use IBM Systems Architect, Visual Paradigm and Rational Rose and my experience with those is that is you want true team cooperation, they always ask you to buy something more. Usually there is a separate tool/SW to make teamwork work. Give them all the specs ahead of time so that if something is not there, you can go back and ask for them to fix the problem.
Dorian W Smith