We compared Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ardoq based on our user's reviews in 4 parameters. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is praised for its comprehensive modeling capabilities, a vast library of templates, and competitive pricing. Users have highlighted the need for better UI, documentation, and integration. Users found Ardoq to be flexible in data modeling, collaborative, and easy to use, with some improvements needed in integration, reporting, and customer support responsiveness. Both products offer positive ROI and excellent customer service.
Features: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect excels in comprehensive modeling and customization options with seamless integration, vast templates. Ardoq stands out for flexibility in data modeling, collaborative platform, integration capabilities, and intuitive user interface.
Pricing and ROI: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is noted for its flexibility in licensing options and overall value for the price, although some find the initial setup cost to be high. Users find Ardoq to have reasonable pricing, lower setup costs, and flexible licensing options. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is commended for its robust features and cost savings. Ardoq offers customizable features and efficient data visualization, saving time and resources.
Room for Improvement: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect users suggest improving UI, tutorials, integration, performance, and stability. Ardoq users seek better software integration, reporting, training, support, performance, pricing transparency, mobile app, UI, collaboration, security, and data protection.
Deployment and customer support: Users had mixed experiences with setting up Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, with some finding it simple and others finding it complex. Setting up Ardoq was difficult but doable for most users and took around an hour if done correctly. Ardoq can also be deployed on AWS and Azure for cloud usage. Opinions on Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect's technical support vary, with some customers finding it good while others have not interacted with the team. Ardoq's customer service is regarded as helpful and excellent, especially for paid extended support.
The summary above is based on 11 interviews we conducted recently with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ardoq users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"It is simple to build the first model for the solution."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"Sparx has got a range of modeling features, and I am comfortable with all its offering. I've used a lot of tools over the phone. I found EA Spark, probably the most feature rich product all in all compared to other products. The solution is very cost-effective and that is its best feature. It's a very good delivery architecture tool, which also has enterprise architecture capabilities, and it's got full life cycle processes and software development. So for me, it's a pretty comprehensive tool"
"The most valuable feature of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is the value streams."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports multiple modeling languages like ArchiMate for database design, software lifecycle visualization, and team management."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"Scalability as a standalone system is good, given the information that has been described inside Ardoq. But not the scalability as a third-party system or with integration with other systems. Because in this direction, the scalability is about zero for Ardoq."
"The training environment wasn't very intuitive, but maybe with more use, it will get better."
"I would like the system to more "intellectually" build a scheme, place icons, and connect lines on the schemes."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"They should make the Save button easier to find. A simplified user interface for a lighter user would probably be useful. I am not sure if such an interface is already there."
"The database management area was not usable."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM feature can be improved to make it more interactive and user friendly because it is a tool for technical people. My current use is only for business process modeling notation and putting in the icons etc. You need to take them in as a class, which makes things very complex. Because of this complexity, it is not an easy-to-handle solution. Enterprise Architect is not very good for mockups. We cannot create user screens and other similar kinds of stuff, which is bad. For these things, we prefer to use Axure RP and other similar solutions. They should either remove this feature from this product or provide some kind of connectivity with Axure RP so that people can do better mockups of screens and import them. They need to augment and strengthen the BPM feature, which is the main feature. They need to put in some elements like artificial intelligence and augmented reality. They should look into such features because these things are coming up."
"The solution's interface could be more straightforward."
"The Portfolio Management features can be added in the next release. As it helps you to manage more portfolio of projects and architectures of cost projects on a portfolio level. This would be an important feature in the next release."
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Ardoq is ranked 12th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 2 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Ardoq is rated 7.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ardoq writes "Provides stable performance and scalability but not intuitive for data modeling". 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". Ardoq is most compared with LeanIX, BiZZdesign HoriZZon, MEGA HOPEX, ADOIT and erwin Data Modeler by Quest, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw and Lucidchart. See our Ardoq vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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