We performed a comparison between Bonita 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 user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."
"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."
"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."
"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."
"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"
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"Provides a single repository for all architecture work."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"It's a stable and scalable solution. I like that it's similar to Rational Rose."
"I like Sparx's BPM features and the way it lets you create the diagram."
"Installation could be made easier."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"There is a considerable learning curve."
"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"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."
"What should be improved are the integration capabilities of the solution with Bizagi."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"The solution's interface could be more straightforward."
"This solution is quite complex to use. It would be nice if the learning curve wasn't so steep."
"The UI could be improved and made a little bit more presentable."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
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Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Design with 27 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". 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". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and Pega BPM, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Bonita vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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