We performed a comparison between Sparx Prolaborate 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."What is really powerful in Sparx is the way in which you can model business processes. You can link business processes to organizational objectives. You can also take those business processes and link them to specific product features that you want to deliver."
"Its extensibility is most valuable."
"Sparx Prolaborate is user-friendly, easy to use, and has good documentation."
"It is valuable to have diagrams available in real time."
"It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word."
"The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"The features I find most valuable is the ability to create a document and then put it into a OneCare artifact."
"The solution could offer different sources for design."
"In the next release, there should be more editable objects. We find Sparx Prolaborate very user-friendly, and having more features that are in the Enterprise Architect would be great, such as managing different versions of diagrams."
"There should be more cloud capabilities."
"The product is not very user-friendly."
"A lot of product teams use a lot of visualizations for mapping out the product roadmap, brainstorming, or understanding the vision of the product, but Sparx is not a great visualization tool. Sparx has to improve the way for visualizing processes, journeys, software designs, etc. It would really benefit the product management teams or even enterprise architects."
"The modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"The solution needs to offer better support for the mobile-based system. Right now, it's not working."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
"One room for improvement in Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is that it's not very friendly. Another room for improvement in the tool is that it doesn't enable you to import the metadata from a database very easily, so reverse engineering of a database was very difficult. Its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement."
"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."
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Sparx Prolaborate is ranked 19th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 5 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Sparx Prolaborate is rated 7.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sparx Prolaborate writes "Diagram are available in real time but edits sometimes require a manual refresh". 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". Sparx Prolaborate is most compared with LeanIX and Sparx Pro Cloud Server, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Sparx Prolaborate vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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