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."It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word."
"Sparx Prolaborate is user-friendly, easy to use, and has good documentation."
"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."
"It is valuable to have diagrams available in real time."
"Its extensibility is most valuable."
"It is an EA tool that is approved by Open Group. It is in the tool register of Open Group."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"It has led some teams to do better code reviews - to be less focussed on coding conventions (syntax) and more focussed on the semantics because of the abstraction level clear design affords."
"Sparx offers good flexibility."
"Its ability to reference and link to components from any diagram."
"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."
"The product is not very user-friendly."
"The solution could offer different sources for design."
"There should be more cloud capabilities."
"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 dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"Its usability needs to be improved. For non-technical users, it is a little difficult to understand how Enterprise Architect works. Users who are not engineers find it difficult to understand how this tool works. This is something they need to work on. They can develop a BPM model to simulate processes."
"Sparx can be a bit slow. If you are trying to design software architecture, sometimes we run into issues and need to refresh."
"In general, we now have a problem with Sparx Enterprise Architect because many analysts think it's too complicated to use in a giant environment."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"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."
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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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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