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"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work.""Provides a single repository for all architecture work.""The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us.""The features I find most valuable is the ability to create a document and then put it into a OneCare artifact.""It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool.""Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good.""I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs.""It is a very flexible product. It can do a lot. It is also a reliable product."

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"It helps clients find information when they need to know how to do their jobs effectively.""It tends to get more engagement from people across the business."

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"The window froze for five or ten seconds. You can click and click again and it takes a second to come up. It might have been specific to a version.""Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance""The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to.""The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved.""The UI could be improved and made a little bit more presentable.""Sparx can be a bit slow. If you are trying to design software architecture, sometimes we run into issues and need to refresh.""More challenging than other tools to maintain documents and document versions for an architecture board review.""The reporting needs improvement."

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"This product could probably do with less features rather than more. It is overly complicated. In recent releases, it has become harder to use."

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  • "The Corporate Edition, or one of the bundles, is the way to go."
  • "Use floating licenses strategically."
  • "The pricing for ultimate version is steeply high."
  • "Licenses are pretty low cost compared to, for example, ARIS."
  • "It’s the best deal in town, by far."
  • "Pricing and licensing is very attractive, simple, and straightforward."
  • "Pricing and licensing are suitable even for small companies."
  • "In terms of cost, Sparx EA is probably one of the cheapest tools I have ever used."
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    Top Answer:It's reasonably priced for large organizations, though it may be perceived as expensive for individual users.
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    Overview

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is an enterprise solution that helps streamline, accelerate, and integrate software, system, and business development. With this intuitive modeling and design solution, enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, enable collaboration, support their teams and colleagues, and manage complex projects. Software architects, business analysts, project managers, developers, support staff, and testers can unite under a single repository. Through numerous view points and potential sub-systems, users are offered a unified view in a complex environment.

    With Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, users are also offered a shared model option which can be accessed quickly and securely by in-office and remote team members through the Enterprise Architect’s Pro Cloud Server. Building a coherent, verifiable model can be done by connecting and integrating a variety of behavioral and structural information in visual form. As a result, Enterprise Architect offers high performance, flexibility, and the ability to model, manage, and trace every stage of the business development and modeling process.

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Features

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect assists in creating a unified and accessible vision in business development by offering a flexible platform with a unique set of rich features. These features include:

    • Test and debug - Streamline software development and visualize software with the simulation process. Users can test and confirm correct behavior, set and oversee test points, and debug and examine software.
    • Track tasks - Track, prioritize, and assign individual and group tasks to assist in the model’s development. Users can visually monitor their progress through the Gantt chart.
    • Open standards - Users can visualize and analyze running software with integrated custom tools. They can also run advanced simulations, team-based repositories, testing tools, and version control. In addition, the solution supports enterprise architecture frameworks such as UPDM and TOGAF.
    • Simulation - Create and debug embedded solutions by simulating behaviors and state models. Users can specify events, triggers, constraints, and more. Users can also specify extensive and complex structural systems and create custom domain-specific solutions.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect merges high-end tools, online availability, a dedication to open standards, and accessible pricing so enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, whether remote or in-office. Users particularly like the architectural frameworks and the scalability.

    Marc L., a principal architecture enterprise solution adviser at Cronomagic Canada, notes, "The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."

    An enterprise architect at a manufacturing company writes, "Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."

    Nimbus Control is a software suite designed to enable organizations to capture, analyze and communicate a common set of processes that can be used to manage an organization.
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    Air France-KLM, Airbus Helicopters, Alestra, Allianz Ireland, Ausgrid, Avantium, Bank of Montreal, Barclaycard, BNL, BVC (Columbia Stock Exchange), Cameron, Child Support Agency
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    Government16%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Educational Organization14%
    Government12%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company10%
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Government8%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews while TIBCO Nimbus Control is ranked 22nd in Business Process Design. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Nimbus Control is rated 5.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Nimbus Control writes "It is overly complicated. It tends to get more engagement from people across the business". Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX, whereas TIBCO Nimbus Control is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, Visio and ARIS BPA.

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