We performed a comparison between iServer 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."I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."
"Integrating the Microsoft documents to the product and visualization matrix where we can see the end-to-end relationship of the network is of great importance to our company."
"It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"The most valuable features of iServer are the integration with Microsoft Office and the interface is similar to Microsoft applications making them easy to use."
"There were lots of different requirements, and collaboration and review is one of the biggest things. There is also Office 360 integration, and there's flexibility to use it as a database as well."
"The solution is easily modified to suit your needs."
"This is a flexible tool compared to some other solutions."
"I like Sparx's BPM features and the way it lets you create the diagram."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"Automated document generation is a real time saver, no more cut and paste, no more keeping track of which diagrams are in which reports, no more last minute update panics. Just click a mouse and you've got an up to date report."
"The profiles and ready-made templates are an extremely helpful feature. This is one of the biggest features that I find very useful in Sparx."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Sparx offers good flexibility."
"Cannot see which activities are control activities."
"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."
"Requirements management needs to be improved."
"I haven't used this solution long enough to know what areas could be improved."
"It definitely needs help to improve the visual aspect of the solution."
"The performance is slow, which is something that should be improved."
"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."
"The modelling needs improvement, specifically forecasting capabilities and scenarios."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"It took me a while to figure out how to use the report generation features effectively. So, it would be really nice if they had a way to make that a little bit more interactive and a little bit more straightforward."
"The UI could be improved and made a little bit more presentable."
"I think the product is good. When I'm trying to do something specific for some part of project documentation, it's hard to get it figured out if you don't use it all the time. It's such a massive tool, it's hard to figure out how to dig in and get to the documentation where you have to be to get some idea of what to do. There are not a lot of examples that I'm aware of to be able to do that."
"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."
"This solution should have better ease of use for the uninitiated."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance"
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iServer is ranked 6th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 15 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management 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". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Visio, ARIS BPA, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and ADOIT. See our Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect vs. iServer report.
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Hello,
My advise is to think about Mega EA, according to Garthner analysis , it
is the best EA tools in 2013 and 2014. and since I am using it, I can tell
you that is definitely the best EA tools in my opinion.
I have not used those two. I have used/use IBM Systems Architect, Visual Paradigm and Rational Rose and my experience with those is that is you want true team cooperation, they always ask you to buy something more. Usually there is a separate tool/SW to make teamwork work. Give them all the specs ahead of time so that if something is not there, you can go back and ask for them to fix the problem.
Dorian W Smith