We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The technical support is good."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"ARIS process modeling and analysis allows integration of end-to-end business processes with the organization's vision, strategies, and business objectives, through visual management."
"From an architectural point of view, when you're looking at the business area, you can find all the information you have to use as an architect."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"The whole ARIS BPM solution is a bit special, because from the very beginning it was targeted more to Business users and the Management."
"ARIS Reporting – Helps download valuable content from the tool in multiple formats."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"The profiles allow me to customize the tool to the corporate environment instead of the other way around saving huge amounts of time and energy on trying to turn dozens of individuals into TOGAF, ArchiMate or Zachman experts, or even Sparx EA experts."
"It is an EA tool that is approved by Open Group. It is in the tool register of Open Group."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Modeling is a part of my work, and it has a lot of standard modeling languages. It is quite wide, and a lot is possible in it. We are not programming it ourselves, but if you are into programming and developing software yourself, you can go further and do a lot with Sparx. You can work from the framework and go into the details. With this solution, you get a lot of value at a low cost. It is also quite intuitive in terms of use. I like the use of it."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"ARIS BPA’s usability could be improved."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"There is not enough documentation provided for the tool's support or administration."
"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."
"Because its easy to create diagrams one needs to be vigilant on the housekeeping of orphaned fragments - I have written my own scripts to do this, maybe they are available now."
"I would like it to be less of a general tool. Currently, it is not a Swiss army knife that can do everything. It is not specialized for our purposes. We are a civil engineering company. We build things. We work mostly in what is known as Infra world in the Netherlands, which comprises objects such as bridges, locks, and water management. We would like to see more focus on such types of projects. It would be nice if it has more specializations. At the moment, it is very generic, and you have to create everything yourself. Our focus is more on user requirement management, which is currently very basic. I would like to see a lot more functionality in this area. Its basic functions for adding user requirements are perfect, but we need more features. Currently, it has limited possibilities for our requirements. I would also like to see better contract management and have it managed in a certain way."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"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."
"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 solution's interface could be more straightforward."
"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."
"The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". 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". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Bizagi and Visio, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and MEGA HOPEX. See our ARIS BPA vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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