Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management vs Sparx Prolaborate comparison

Software AG and Sparx Systems are both solutions in the Enterprise Architecture Management category. Software AG is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.0, while Sparx Systems is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.0. Software AG holds a 2.5% mindshare in AM, compared to Sparx Systems’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Sparx Systems users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management and Sparx Prolaborate compete in enterprise architecture. Sparx Prolaborate has advanced features, while Alfabet's pricing and support enhance its value.

Features: Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management focuses on strategic IT planning, landscape management, and compliance tracking, offering robust IT portfolio management. Sparx Prolaborate emphasizes collaboration, real-time visualization, and model sharing for team communication.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alfabet provides a flexible deployment model with strong customer support and training, ensuring seamless IT ecosystem integration. Sparx Prolaborate offers cloud-based deployment simplifying implementation, though customization may be needed, with a focus on quick response technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management offers competitive pricing and a good ROI through strategic alignment and improved IT decision-making. Sparx Prolaborate involves higher setup costs, but ROI is gained through collaboration and efficiency.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Alfabet Enterprise Architec...

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

13th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Sparx Prolaborate

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

18th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management is 2.5%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sparx Prolaborate is 0.7%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AlanJackson

Partner: Enterprise Strategy & Advisory at Wipro Limited

Great taxonomy support but raw business processing should be upgraded

Alfabet is not just a technology tool, it's also a business tool. And if a decision's made without the business involved, then Alfabet will not be in a position to deliver anything more than support for enterprise architect drawings and solutions drawings. It has to be the business. If you do that, it works well. If you don't and I've had the experience where they haven't evolved a business, then it just becomes a tech tool that the business doesn't care about. The stigma of having an environment that was so delayed in the maintenance caused lots of finger-pointing within the organization of who was right and who was wrong. It took a considerable period of time to move people past that point to actually look at it as a business tool supported by the technology team. I rate the solution seven out of 10.

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Sastry Dhara

President/CEO at dhara consulting group, inc

Good extensibility, but there should be more cloud capabilities

Its extensibility is most valuable. There should be more cloud capabilities. We worked with this solution for two or three years. There are no stability issues. It is scalable. Their support is good. It was straightforward. I would rate it a seven out of ten. On-premises

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The taxonomy support across all the phases is the most advantageous feature."

"The most valuable features of this solution are its customizability, and flexibility in the configuration."

"The initial setup was straightforward. It takes two to three days to set up the environment. One person was able to handle the implementation."

"It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word."

"Its extensibility is most valuable."

"It is valuable to have diagrams available in real time."

"What is really powerful in Sparx is the way in which you can model business processes. You can link business processes to organizational objectives. You can also take those business processes and link them to specific product features that you want to deliver."

"Sparx Prolaborate is user-friendly, easy to use, and has good documentation."

Cons

"We would like to see the visualization of assets, as well as artificial intelligence techniques to assist us in making our decisions."

"The user experience, the layout and the different technologies behind the presentations are a bit old. These need to be updated. They should focus on web development. It's simply not supporting the current user experience guidelines."

"The product is not great at implementing security frameworks across an end-to-end supply chain."

"In the next release, there should be more editable objects. We find Sparx Prolaborate very user-friendly, and having more features that are in the Enterprise Architect would be great, such as managing different versions of diagrams."

"The solution could offer different sources for design."

"A lot of product teams use a lot of visualizations for mapping out the product roadmap, brainstorming, or understanding the vision of the product, but Sparx is not a great visualization tool. Sparx has to improve the way for visualizing processes, journeys, software designs, etc. It would really benefit the product management teams or even enterprise architects."

"The product is not very user-friendly."

"There should be more cloud capabilities."

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"The product is expensive."

"The price of Sparx Prolaborate is good."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Government

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management?

The taxonomy support across all the phases is the most advantageous feature.

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What needs improvement with Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management?

The ability for Alfabet to acknowledge use cases that are specifically business-based and not technology-based and better integrate those process designs across the spectrum could be improved. The ...

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What is your primary use case for Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management?

I work for a systems integrator and we are end users. Organizations using this product are enterprise-size, our largest customer has 30,000 users. One customer had use cases built on sourcing raw m...

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What do you like most about Sparx Prolaborate?

It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word.

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What needs improvement with Sparx Prolaborate?

The product is not very user-friendly. It takes time to learn the concept. The user-friendliness and the learning curve must be improved. It takes quite a lot of time for experienced engineers to use.

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What is your primary use case for Sparx Prolaborate?

We use the product primarily for model-based engineering.

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Overview

Software AG's Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management Platform provides a collaborative platform for aligning the IT landscape with the business to guide competitive transformation. You can describe complex IT systems in terms of their business, application, information and technical layers, and develop standards for change. Build the foundation for business-IT transformation with an accurate, real-time picture of the IT landscape, including all applications and technologies, the inter-relationships between them, the information they exchange as well as the business organizations and processes they support.

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A high level tour of Sparx Systems latest product release, Prolaborate.

Prolaborate adds a vital information layer to Sparx Systems modeling tool suite, addressing the need of end users and non-modelers alike to be informed by the enterprise model.

In this webinar we'll show how Prolaborate empowers relevant stakeholders, including C-level executives, analysts and other business users, with curated views of the model.

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Metro Bank, Credit Suisse

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