We performed a comparison between Bonita 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."This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."
"The user interface is easy to use."
"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."
"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."
"I really enjoy using the workflow management."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"It's a stable and scalable solution. I like that it's similar to Rational Rose."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"It's like a repository. So far, we use it only for Information Modelling."
"Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"There is a considerable learning curve."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"There is a need for more components in the library and additional customization options for these components."
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."
"It is missing some important features that other products have."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"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."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"It could be more user-friendly. The tools could be more simple to use. It's a very complex solution. Because I am a business analyst, I use these tools to manage requirements, and I make models in UML, BPMN, and ArchiMate, and it's complex. In the next release, I would like to see more integrations."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
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Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Design with 27 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". 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". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, Apache Airflow, IBM BPM and SAP Signavio Process Manager, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Bonita vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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