We performed a comparison between Camunda 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 architecture is good because it's a headless workflow. I can create my own frontend, and it's fully API-based."
"The graphical interface is very beneficial."
"Easy to use and easy to integrate into the products and applications we provide for our customers."
"The ease with which I can define workflows is most valuable. The latest updates and flexibility that it provides around a task activity are interesting for me."
"Camunda Platform has a very good interface for workflow and business process design."
"It allows me to present or to demonstrate the business process flow, visually, without having to resort to PowerPoint, Visio, or other products."
"The headless nature of the Camunda Platform is something that has helped us to build our own logic and platforms on it."
"We can easily define and deploy business processes. Camunda provides the tools that allow business people to design business processes. We don't have to have developers for it. It is so easy to use that our business people can go into the tool and model their business processes. We get time to do other things than just designing business processes."
"It is a useful tool for modeling and testing automated processes."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is very flexible and it is simple to define the metamodel. Additionally, it is lightweight on resources."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"I like that there is support for software patterns."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"Camunda could be improved by making it easier to modify a process. You can program it to follow a process, but it is difficult to modify the process when the application is in use. It could also be improved by making it easier to use the visual platform without needing to be informed on that. Sometimes, we programmers haven't used it in the past, and it's a bit difficult to learn it."
"Especially when you use the open-source version, there are issues with performance."
"We have faced problems with the performance."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"In the future, I would like to see better transactional integrity."
"The GUI needs to be improved, with more configuration options."
"The only drawback is the time that it takes to have a complete set of workflows implemented on the Camunda platform."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"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."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"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 presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"I would like to see integration with Confluence or any other TRM, and the capability to integrate with the data storage, such as a repository similar to GitHub."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
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Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 66 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". 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". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Bizagi, IBM BPM and Appian, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Camunda vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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