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.
"I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."
"Aris BPA has a lot of tools that are more professional than Bizagi."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"The most valuable feature is the process documentation. For us, ARIS is a lifestyle more than a tool. It helps us learn how to think and how to plan for our system."
"It brings transparency and 360-degree views of end-to-end processes."
"The EPC modeling is very detailed, the semantic check is helpful, and auto-layout simplifies the formatting."
"We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment."
"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."
"It provides good utilization and it's a convenient tool for building exact architectural work."
"The installation was very easy."
"It's a stable and scalable solution. I like that it's similar to Rational Rose."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"The solution is easy to use, supports SysML and UML, and is able to connect to MATLAB. This is very important for us."
"Modeling is a part of my work, and it has a lot of standard modeling languages. It is quite wide, and a lot is possible in it. We are not programming it ourselves, but if you are into programming and developing software yourself, you can go further and do a lot with Sparx. You can work from the framework and go into the details. With this solution, you get a lot of value at a low cost. It is also quite intuitive in terms of use. I like the use of it."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"Simulation is one area that is a bit complex."
"The model graphics can be exported in PDF, but the model is too small to read."
"There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."
"If you want to create new reports then you have to use JavaScript, or ARIS script as they call it, which is beyond the competencies of most people."
"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 stability and performance of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect could still be improved. Setup for it is also slightly complicated and could be improved."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"The UI is a little bit outdated. It should be more fresh and clean."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"The areas of improvement should be focused on utility service such as producing better graphics, perhaps having a wider image library set and producing better models for working directly with customers."
"In a future release, they should improve portfolio planning."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 17 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 36 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "Departments can simply document their processes and flowcharts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "Great pricing with an easy initial setup and a comprehensive toolkit". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, Camunda Platform, Visio, Bizagi and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our ARIS BPA vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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