We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA 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."You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"The matrix model makes building relations easier."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are the centralized repository and the automatic rendering of diagrams."
"It helps the business make an informed decision."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"The initial setup and installation are very straightforward."
"The installation was very easy."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"The profiles allow me to customize the tool to the corporate environment instead of the other way around saving huge amounts of time and energy on trying to turn dozens of individuals into TOGAF, ArchiMate or Zachman experts, or even Sparx EA experts."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"Large variety of profiles and frameworks available out-of-the-box without the need for customization."
"Its most valuable feature is the Zachman Framework."
"Sparx technical support is good."
"It is a very flexible product. It can do a lot. It is also a reliable product."
"There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."
"If you want to create new reports then you have to use JavaScript, or ARIS script as they call it, which is beyond the competencies of most people."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"ARIS has an internal fully customizable workflow system called APG, which is very good, but it’s targeted mostly at creating workflows related to ARIS content, and not general workflows to support other processes inside a company."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"The integration between ARIS, webMethods, and project versions needs improvement."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"I would like to see integration with Confluence or any other TRM, and the capability to integrate with the data storage, such as a repository similar to GitHub."
"The database management area was not usable."
"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."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"There used to be that feature in ArchiMate Modeling of Enterprise Architect called inherited relationships. Now it's gone."
"The integration could be improved."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". 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". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Bizagi and Visio, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and IBM Rational System Architect. See our ARIS BPA vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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