We performed a comparison between Avolution ABACUS and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."It's more than just an enterprise architecture tool as it has a lot of nice features, e.g. messaging, simulation, etc."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key."
"The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed."
"The product is easy to use and well-structured for the integrations we need it to make."
"There are plenty of features available such as the ability to test applications for issues and a user-friendly dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the traceability, you can trace any object to the other."
"There are a lot of different features, but the business/decision-maker feature, visibility, and dashboards are most valuable."
"The ease of modeling and the ease of showing interconnectivity and relationships is the most valuable. It is fairly simple and out of the box. It is customizable in many ways. It is a pretty good tool."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports multiple modeling languages like ArchiMate for database design, software lifecycle visualization, and team management."
"Using Sparx Enterprise Architect allowed my customer to detail and make the company's IT strategy visible and accessible to all. The system provided clear roadmaps for IT development and helped to keep up-to-date documentation of systems and processes."
"It's a stable and scalable solution. I like that it's similar to Rational Rose."
"Automated document generation is a real time saver, no more cut and paste, no more keeping track of which diagrams are in which reports, no more last minute update panics. Just click a mouse and you've got an up to date report."
"Some of the business processes are very easy to compare when you have the diagrams."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"If they want to expand in the European market then they are going to have to improve their technical support."
"The company needs to update the UML version they are using for the product as it is quite old."
"It doesn't have the simulation capability, which would be helpful in doing some business process analysis and improvements."
"The usability of the tool is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The most valuable features are the catalog and the diagram."
"While this is one of the most powerful tools on the market it does not integrate well with Microsoft Office or others."
"They should take more initiative to implement things that competing products have already come out with."
"Having more control over page size is lacking in this product. Print utilization also needs to be improved."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"I think that collaboration can be better."
"This solution is quite complex to use. It would be nice if the learning curve wasn't so steep."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"This solution should have better ease of use for the uninitiated."
"They should make the Save button easier to find. A simplified user interface for a lighter user would probably be useful. I am not sure if such an interface is already there."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
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Avolution ABACUS is ranked 8th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 13 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Avolution ABACUS is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Avolution ABACUS writes " An out of the box tool that creates reports on the fly that can help your client make better decisions". 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". Avolution ABACUS is most compared with LeanIX, Visio, MEGA HOPEX, ARIS BPA and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and SAP PowerDesigner.
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