We performed a comparison between LeanIX and SAP PowerDesigner 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."The ability to import data and generate reports from it. That's where its power lies."
"One of the product's most valuable features is its ability to configure hardware devices."
"I like the tool’s integration and maps."
"Interfaces well with downstream systems of data."
"I like LeanIX's ease of use in general."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and the user experience. It's easy to map the fact sheets."
"It offers neat visualization and referencing functionality while enabling the creation of landscape maps and showing the relationship between different applications."
"LeanIX has good usability and stability. This SaaS is intuitive, easy to use, and comes with a nice reporting feature."
"Has a specific template that's very helpful for importing metadata."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"The most useful feature has been the detailed possibility to model almost anything regarding physical databases."
"The physical database model is definitely the most valuable feature because it describes normalization exactly the way you understand the data, and it deploys it perfectly with open source systems."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"The most valuable feature is the way you can extend it and customize it. With most modeling tools, you fit your modeling process to fit the tool. In PowerDesigner, you can make the tool fit the way you want to work."
"Very good repository features."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"The solution uses Gartner's time-based framework for application rationalization. One more thing that you can consider is having some add-on frameworks for the same, not just Gartner."
"The modeling could be improved."
"They're probably positioned pretty well. I hope that they would not focus that much on the business architecture, and they would focus more on the overall cloud strategy and how we can leverage multi-cloud and transition back and forth from other cloud providers. With a lot of current vendors, you get locked in with one cloud, and then you try to migrate to someone else, and it becomes very problematic. What they need to do is to look at the overall data strategy, and they probably need to amplify their data strategy, especially around multi-cloud."
"It's hard to predict the pricing of the system."
"The whole integration architecture view of interfaces/data exchange could be improved."
"They should improve the out of the box connectors that they provide. They should see if clients are really ready to adapt them."
"Not a ten because you always have that gap between complexity and easy to use. And the more complex the tool becomes, the more difficult it is to get the usability."
"The solution’s API integration needs to improve. I would like to see a digital screen watch feature also in the solution."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"One disadvantage of SAP PowerDesigner is that you cannot reverse engineer the ALTER statements, so that's an enhancement or area for improvement I'm looking forward to seeing from the SAP team in the future. That should directly reflect on the physical data models my company builds."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"The portal of SAP PowerDesigner could be better. The tool also needs more features and integration with other products, such as Collibra. It would be interesting for SAP PowerDesigner to have more integration."
"I have found the solution not easy to use. When publishing you have to download the HTML, make adjustments against the updated HTML, convert it to HTML, then finally paste the HTML. There is not an on-the-fly function available to bypass the step-by-step converting process that other solutions have."
LeanIX is ranked 1st in Enterprise Architecture Management with 16 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 32 reviews. LeanIX is rated 8.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of LeanIX writes "Streamlines the process of identifying apps nearing end-of-life or requiring retirement and facilitates informed decisions about app retention". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "It has a good repository and is stable, fast, and flexible". LeanIX is most compared with ServiceNow, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, MEGA HOPEX, ADOIT and erwin Evolve by Quest, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and MEGA HOPEX. See our LeanIX vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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