We performed a comparison between iServer and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Architecture Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."iServer has valuable features for workflow and document management."
"It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."
"Tech support is very responsive. They solved issues within a prompt response time."
"Integrating the Microsoft documents to the product and visualization matrix where we can see the end-to-end relationship of the network is of great importance to our company."
"I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"We like the governance."
"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."
"Features good reporting facilities coupled with a concrete database."
"Large variety of profiles and frameworks available out-of-the-box without the need for customization."
"It has led some teams to do better code reviews - to be less focussed on coding conventions (syntax) and more focussed on the semantics because of the abstraction level clear design affords."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"The most valuable feature is the integrated data model, so if I change the name of an item, all models using that object are automatically updated."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"It is simple to build the first model for the solution."
"It definitely needs help to improve the visual aspect of the solution."
"The modelling needs improvement, specifically forecasting capabilities and scenarios."
"The performance is slow, which is something that should be improved."
"Cannot see which activities are control activities."
"Enhancing integration options with ERP or ITSM-related solutions for triggering automated requests for process definitions, changes, and tracking them in the iServer."
"Requirements management needs to be improved."
"The migration tool needs to be included in the main package, and not as a separate license."
"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."
"Its best features are not intuitive or easy to learn. Most companies I have worked with, when I see what they are doing with it , are not using more than 5% of what they could and should be doing with it."
"What should be improved are the integration capabilities of the solution with Bizagi."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"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."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
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iServer is ranked 6th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 15 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management feature ". 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". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Visio, ARIS BPA, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and ADOIT. See our Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect vs. iServer report.
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Hello,
My advise is to think about Mega EA, according to Garthner analysis , it
is the best EA tools in 2013 and 2014. and since I am using it, I can tell
you that is definitely the best EA tools in my opinion.
I have not used those two. I have used/use IBM Systems Architect, Visual Paradigm and Rational Rose and my experience with those is that is you want true team cooperation, they always ask you to buy something more. Usually there is a separate tool/SW to make teamwork work. Give them all the specs ahead of time so that if something is not there, you can go back and ask for them to fix the problem.
Dorian W Smith