We performed a comparison between BIC Platform and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Sparx Systems and others in Business Process Design."The product is easy to use."
"While this is a new product it has a mature feel from being built by a company with many years in the business."
"The central dictionary is a valuable feature."
"This is low-cost and very user friendly. A variety of models are available depending on the needs of the customer."
"Its most valuable feature is the Zachman Framework."
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"There are a couple of things. Price is one thing, but we also like the scriptability of it. We got into scripting it and automating tasks with it, and it is super duper easy to do and helpful. The API has improved over the years. We automate everything, and I love the automation aspects of it."
"The system provides powerful tools for obtaining reports and documentation."
"It is a very flexible product. It can do a lot. It is also a reliable product."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"It is a useful tool for modeling and testing automated processes."
"As the product is very new, some minor features are still missing, but everything is there to handle day-to-day process modeling."
"There's an issue with the current manual that they're working on."
"The product needs improvement regarding the confidentiality of the domain information for the key administrator."
"The solution could improve its connectivity to other systems."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
"I think the product is good. When I'm trying to do something specific for some part of project documentation, it's hard to get it figured out if you don't use it all the time. It's such a massive tool, it's hard to figure out how to dig in and get to the documentation where you have to be to get some idea of what to do. There are not a lot of examples that I'm aware of to be able to do that."
"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 UI could be improved and made a little bit more presentable."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
"There should be a MATLAB-specific toolbox added to the solution with better compatibility. The connections currently are good but in the future, it needs a huge improvement."
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BIC Platform is ranked 18th in Business Process Design with 4 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. BIC Platform is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BIC Platform writes "Provides good stability, but they should add a feature for enterprise architecture". 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". BIC Platform is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ARIS BPA, Visio, Camunda and ARIS Cloud, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX.
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