We performed a comparison between Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and UNICOM System 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."Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports multiple modeling languages like ArchiMate for database design, software lifecycle visualization, and team management."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."
"Sparx offers good flexibility."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"The most valuable feature is the integrated data model, so if I change the name of an item, all models using that object are automatically updated."
"Some of the business processes are very easy to compare when you have the diagrams."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"It is useful for creating build-outs and architecture views and for publishing reports and stuff like that for different programs."
"It has good end-to-end metamodel interrelationships."
"This solution is quite complex to use. It would be nice if the learning curve wasn't so steep."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
"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."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"There should be a MATLAB-specific toolbox added to the solution with better compatibility. The connections currently are good but in the future, it needs a huge improvement."
"The modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"Even if there are web-based tools in the Enterprise Architecture tool ecosystem (like Prolaborate), the main modeling application is still a fat client application."
"They need to add reports that show the enterprise architecture perspectives, and the dashboards should be comfortable for the senior enterprise architects so that they can view the complete landscape."
"I don't use the tool or know a lot. It is going to have some shortcomings. When it comes down to publishing, we just found out this week that they actually have a publisher add-on. So, what we were trying to publish was not giving a detailed report about the architecture, views, etc. I just wish they had sent these to UNICOM and contacted them about add-on features for the publishing part of the tool."
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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews while UNICOM System Architect is ranked 25th in Enterprise Architecture Management. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0, while UNICOM System Architect is rated 6.0. 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 UNICOM System Architect writes "Useful for creating build-outs and architecture views, but requires a publisher add-on for some detailed reports". Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX, whereas UNICOM System Architect is most compared with . See our Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect vs. UNICOM System Architect report.
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