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I didn't evaluate other options because Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was imposed on me. It was what my company was using when I joined.
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andhdo
Software Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We work with both Sparx and HOPEX, and therefore we can easily compare them. Sparx, for example, is less expensive. However, it can run slow sometimes and needs to be refreshed. HOPEX sometimes has the same issue in terms of needing an occasional refresh.
We find Sparx to be more useable as well. It's less technical.
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Terry Watts
Software Developer at RowdenSoftwareSolutions Ltd.
At the time I first used it it was a no brainer, there was only Sparx out there as affordable and serious software - there was Visio. Now there are real alternatives.
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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
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Roland Kossow
Entrepreneur-Consultant-Developer-Freelance at Dipl.-Ök. Roland Kossow
I did not evaluate other solutions. I heard of Sparx EA to be one of the best - even though it is a challenging tool - and that is why I took it.
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Igor Malik
Senior Solutions Architect Lead at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Currently, I am using a different tool, which is open-source, because the company didn't want to pay. It looks like they have changed their mind, and I have now started looking into the tool. I will also be looking at other cloud-based tools, including Sparx. We haven't yet made a decision. We will compare all the options, and Sparx has very good chances. We are quite positive about it, but there is also competition.
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reviewer1763514
Product Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees
I had a long list. I had about 15 different enterprise-grade architecture tools. I got a bunch of them off the PeerSpot site.
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Marc Lampron
Conseiller principal en architecture d’entreprise et de solution at Cronomagic Canada
In my career, I was involved in many modeling tool selection exercises in many organizations and had the chance to compare most of the available tools on the market (Rational Rose, RSM, RSA, IBM RDA, CaseWise, Mega, Aris, ...). To date, I haven't the opportunity to try and evaluate BiZZdesign.
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John Lamb
Director Enterprise Architecture at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Considered Visio Professional (has a repository), ArchiMate (too high-level), Rational (too costly)
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Daniel Michaud
Architecte fonctionnel at AAnnex
I haven't had a chance to compare this solution to other products. For us, it works pretty well and we haven't had to look elsewhere for similar solutions.
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Chandan Konuri
Enterprise Architect - Integrations at BCA
I evaluated Visio. I use it in parallel with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect.
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reviewer1405377
Sr. Solutions Architect at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
We evaluated other solutions before choosing Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. Most of the other solutions had very big footprints and were very heavy tools. Our use cases were mostly related to EA modeling. For that, this tool was good.
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DBJones_Aus
Process Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I wasn't involved in the selection and acquisition process. Since I began in this role, I have been working with SaaS products, such as Signavo's suite of products. In my view, these products are far more usable than client-server products, in terms of getting projects underway and using them in workshops. However, I think that they are not as versatile and functional as products such as EA, although they are rapidly catching up with desktop products.
Archimate from the Open Group as well as other more robust EA products, both open source and proprietary.
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Ivan Karev
Business Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We are doing some slow research in the direction of switching to another program. For this year, it's not in the roadmap, but I will approve that for next year because we really want to consider some alternatives.
For example, solutions like LeanIX have more capabilities for integration between different levels of data representation. We can integrate the system with Confluence, and it can integrate with Jira.
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MichaelSukachev
Sr. Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We evaluated other options such as Rational Software Architect, Visual Paradigm, and Altova UModel.
View full review »I really tried hard to find the best solution that suits all needs. JIRA/Confluence, and many UML tools like Magic Draw. The only tool that comes close is Visual Paradigm. After some time evaluating, I chose EA, because it gives me the freedom of writing SQL queries, and I can create backups of the whole model very easily. Also, the concept of floating licenses is very nice if you work with different external teams.
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Paul Parisi
Enterprise Architect at Mobiliser
The current market landscape is changing. The recent work I've done with Orbus IServer to be a serious contender.
View full review »Power Designer, Corso, Rational,BIZZDesign
View full review »I have evaluated various tools - IBM Rational Software Architect, briefly played with SyBase Power Designer and Archi. I found them difficult to use, a steeper learning curve, or they did only a portion of the modelling.
View full review »We have evaluated other products both before and after the adoption of Enterprise Architect. We selected EI as the best quality/price to ease of learning and use.
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Michael Roytman, MBA Global Management
Senior Enterprise Architect at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Rational Rose
- Eclipse Modeling
- CA Erwin
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reviewer1599021
IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Since all the staff is already trained in Bizagi and find it easy to use, I do not wish to change this, but only to load all the processes from it to Sparx. This is my approach.
The Bizagi model is only for process. It is not an enterprise architect tool. Only Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, but not Bizagi, allows one to make diagrams and metrics, to examine the relationship between all the elements.
View full review »We evaluated MagicDraw.
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reviewer1355997
Business Owner at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Visual Paradigm is the first one I had about five years ago, I added Enterprise Architect. Enterprise Architect gives a good overview of the tool, but I find that it's difficult for me to take that example and apply it to what I'm trying to accomplish in documenting a design.
I’m always keeping my eye on the tool landscape and there are a lot of good tools out there. But for the money, breadth of scope, depth of features, add-ons, customizability, and capabilities, it still ranks number one.
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AllanKowalski
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Yes, but for the combination of price and value, no one beats them. Now if you want to pay a million dollars there's a lot to choose from.
While I've often heard the large million dollar tools tout how much more powerful they are I have yet to see anything they offer that Sparx EA doesn't.
View full review »I have run tooling RFPs comparing BPM tools such as iGrafx, Aris, ADONIS, and Sparx. (Sparx was already being used by solution architects.)
We chose Sparx as it was the incumbent tool within the organisation. It was significantly less expensive than the other tools.
View full review »We have evaluated other products from competing vendors. Sparx EA has cost advantage over competing tools in the market.
View full review »Other solutions were exclude based on pricing.
View full review »Before choosing this product, we did some research. We had been using Rational and PowerDesigner from Sybase (now SAP), and we tried Embarcadero.
View full review »We were comparing to BizzDesign Architect, Orbus-software and others, but as we still are a rather immature architecture community, we will start small and when we can deliver business benefits we will make a new tool comparison, after a year or so, in 2017. So the main reason for Sparx & BEASI is the low-price and thanks to Beasi a full Archimate support, the inbuilt Archimate support in Sparx is not reaching.
View full review »It was a matter of price and quality! Other solutions were offering “better integrated tools”, but our goal was the UML for analysis purpose and Sparx EA proposed all the required features for a good price, and continuity and quality of support.
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reviewer1516407
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I have evaluated IBM doors.
View full review »Rational Doors from IBM. Their product much more expensive and less agile.
View full review »We are still in the evaluation phase.
View full review »In this project, Aris was the main competition.
View full review »My colleague did this before I started using EA. Dunno exactly, but I thought about Bizzdesign, ARIS, and one or two other products.
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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
March 2024
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