We performed a comparison between SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."Traceability is a fantastic feature."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"We can easily use it with our new customers."
"There are a lot of features in Enterprise Architect. It allows us to take on a lot of tasks."
"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"Sparx has got a range of modeling features, and I am comfortable with all its offering. I've used a lot of tools over the phone. I found EA Spark, probably the most feature rich product all in all compared to other products. The solution is very cost-effective and that is its best feature. It's a very good delivery architecture tool, which also has enterprise architecture capabilities, and it's got full life cycle processes and software development. So for me, it's a pretty comprehensive tool"
"The algorithm is outdated and should be upgraded."
"What should be improved are the integration capabilities of the solution with Bizagi."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The stability and performance of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect could still be improved. Setup for it is also slightly complicated and could be improved."
"The UI could be improved and made a little bit more presentable."
"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."
"It would be great if we could decrease the use of different parts of the Toolbox."
"It really did not work for logical modeling. The look is very old-fashioned. You can't make the diagrams easy on the eye, so we ended up drawing them again in Visio anyhow."
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SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is ranked 18th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is rated 8.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer writes "Great training available with traceability a key 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". SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is most compared with SAP PowerDesigner and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX.
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