"From a total cost of ownership perspective, running this on the cloud is more efficient than having someone in the company take care of the infrastructure."
"It's very easy to collaborate with. It's very user-friendly"
"It has proved that it also works in complex circumstances."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"I like Sparx's BPM features and the way it lets you create the diagram."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"For the most part, we find that it is remarkable how inexpensive it is."
"There are a lot of features in Enterprise Architect. It allows us to take on a lot of tasks."
"It's easy to search within the solution."
"Initial setup is rather complex. You have to find a way to isolate the complexity, and find common ground."
"ARIS' flexibility and power add a certain complexity. And if ARIS could be more streamlined, I think customers would have a better handle on what to do with it in the end. So if you're not a tech geek, you might struggle to understand what you should do with it as a customer because it's that powerful."
"The price is quite high. This is one weak point of the solution."
"The UI could be improved and made a little bit more presentable."
"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."
"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 solution needs to offer better support for the mobile-based system. Right now, it's not working."
"Even if there are web-based tools in the Enterprise Architecture tool ecosystem (like Prolaborate), the main modeling application is still a fat client application."
"The UI is a little bit outdated. It should be more fresh and clean."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"There should be a MATLAB-specific toolbox added to the solution with better compatibility. The connections currently are good but in the future, it needs a huge improvement."
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ARIS Cloud is ranked 14th in Business Process Design with 3 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 35 reviews. ARIS Cloud is rated 8.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ARIS Cloud writes "There has been a dramatic improvement in the ease of use as well as the accessibility and interconnectivity of information". 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 Cloud is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, IBM Blueworks Live, ARIS Architect and Designer, Microsoft Azure and MEGA HOPEX, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, No Magic MagicDraw, Visio, ARIS BPA and IBM Rational System Architect. See our ARIS Cloud vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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