We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fully-reportable database over Visio."
"The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting."
"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."
"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"Business Process Analysis: We can simulate, optimize, and analyse business processes based on various business requirements. It assures our rolling out the best processes."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"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."
"Sparx offers good flexibility."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"It's easy to search within the solution."
"It is simple to build the first model for the solution."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"Ability to model and create view under same roof."
"The system provides powerful tools for obtaining reports and documentation."
"Migration to the next release is very tricky. You can't do it without support from ARIS or from a software kit. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to migrate. My impression is that a lot of companies do not migrate regularly because of that issue."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"The solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"Its usability needs to be improved. For non-technical users, it is a little difficult to understand how Enterprise Architect works. Users who are not engineers find it difficult to understand how this tool works. This is something they need to work on. They can develop a BPM model to simulate processes."
"The documentation needs a bit of improvement. What I find is that when I'm trying to do something specific for some part of a project, in terms of documentation, it's kind of hard to get at figuring out if you don't use it all the time."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"I have found the solution is lacking options. The general usability needs improvement and more compliance to CML definitions."
"The documentation could be better. Where I work, we speak French and we don't speak English, so we don't have anything in French. It's perfect in English, but we need something in French."
"It could be more user-friendly. The tools could be more simple to use. It's a very complex solution. Because I am a business analyst, I use these tools to manage requirements, and I make models in UML, BPMN, and ArchiMate, and it's complex. In the next release, I would like to see more integrations."
"The modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
"The stability and performance of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect could still be improved. Setup for it is also slightly complicated and could be improved."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". 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". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Bizagi and Visio, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and MEGA HOPEX. See our ARIS BPA vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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