MEGA HOPEX Pros and Cons

The initial setup was straightforward. With configuration, customizing or prepping the data and deployment, it took about one year to set up. We only needed two people to deploy and maintain the solution: one business architect and someone who specializes in customization and operations.

The most valuable feature for this solution is the automatic updating and propagation of changes across the system.

I find the IT portfolio management very valuable and helpful.

We don't use the entire solution, however, even the small sections we have access to work well for our company and our purposes.

You do not need to be a professional of enterprise modeling to contribute to the enrichment and improvement of the enterprise repository.

It generates friendly websites and presents specific views of the enterprise (business, functional, applicative, technological, and infrastructure).

The most valuable feature of this solution is the reuse of common enterprise components and entities.

They do tend to push people to their professional services, instead of helping the customers with their problems. I understand this is their business. At the same time, however, they need to work on fact sheets or offer some program to help the customers who want to implement it themselves and to make it run properly in their environment.

We would like to see integration with other products, such as being able to use our workflow with SharePoint and Microsoft Office.

Scalability can be a problem sometimes.

The solution is a bit expensive. They could work to make it more competitive.

Needs a friendlier import/export to other modeling tools.

The tool usability is weak and it also has a high learning curve.