We performed a comparison between Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Broadcom, ServiceNow and others in Project Portfolio Management."The dashboard is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"It is simple to build the first model for the solution."
"The solution saved a lot of time, about 30%."
"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."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"The window froze for five or ten seconds. You can click and click again and it takes a second to come up. It might have been specific to a version."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"The documentation needs a bit of improvement. What I find is that when I'm trying to do something specific for some part of a project, in terms of documentation, it's kind of hard to get at figuring out if you don't use it all the time."
"More challenging than other tools to maintain documents and document versions for an architecture board review."
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Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is ranked 14th in Project Portfolio Management with 4 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is rated 7.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management writes "Helps us to implement and understand the status of our projects". 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". Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is most compared with ARIS BPA, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, LeanIX, Alfabet FastLane and Jira, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and Lucidchart.
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