We performed a comparison between IBM Rational System Architect, IDERA ER/Studio, and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management.
"We have seen ROI with this solution over the years that we have used it."
"There are a lot of features I find valuable, but I think that the metamodel customization is one of the best features that the solution offers."
"The user interface is good. It's both clear and comprehensible. It's easy to work with."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"We have been able to quickly create models for our enterprise-wide databases, even when some of them are third-party databases."
"Straightforward setup."
"The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer."
"This application does a lot of things, as do competitor products, but the main reason to go with this product was the ability to create many automations, where we can improve our work and our process."
"It's much easier to develop the database structure and change it on the fly, rather than doing it manually in SQL Server itself. That saves time."
"The reverse engineering is the most important feature."
"We can track changes to our data models and tie those changes back to specific tasks or efforts that we identify."
"The tool is simple to use."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"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."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"I like that there is support for software patterns."
"Its ability to reference and link to components from any diagram."
"The system provides powerful tools for obtaining reports and documentation."
"The solution needs to better integrate with other products, like Microsoft."
"There needs to be more information at the outset about how to use the solution and how to deploy it. The deployment process needs improvement."
"This solution can be more user-friendly and easier to use, with better dashboards."
"The reverse engineering of the database is already there, but in the next release I would like to see some pilot supplied with the solution in order to address any database."
"This solution needs more precise documentation."
"I'd like the ability to debug the errors ourselves instead of having to call them. There are certain types of errors that, I wouldn't say they come up regularly, but when you have an error it is very often the same type of error. Knowing that it's a Type III or Type I, it would be nice to have some kind of debugging facility for us to use to find out where the problem that threw that error occurs. That would be a really cool feature."
"What I would like to see improved is the reliability of the releases, releases that are a little less buggy."
"One limitation I have found in ER/Studio is that when you want to make some changes to the table definitions, you have to go item by item. You cannot do it globally. Another issue concerns defining the foreign keys between the different tables. It is a little more tedious in the ER/Studio than in ERrwin. With ERwin it is direct."
"We would always like to see Repository performance improve, checking in and checking out."
"I would like to upload, a database with about 3,000 tables. It takes so much time and, finally, it freezes the whole solution so that I actually cannot work with that environment. For the data warehouse, it's fine because I have 20 or 30 tables. It works fine. But, when I reverse-engineer the database with 3,000 tables, it freezes and it's hard to upload and reverse-engineer such environments in ER/Studio."
"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."
"The only thing I had an issue with was licensing, and the support was very good."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"Inconsistent UI elements must be tidied up with the toolbox gaps removed."
"Their technical support is not good in India. I wrote to them because I had a question, but I never got an answer. So, I just left it behind."
"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."
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
"What should be improved are the integration capabilities of the solution with Bizagi."
"Not visually appealing."
"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."
More Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Pricing and Cost Advice →
Earn 20 points
