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Enterprise Architecture Management
April 2024
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We performed a comparison between AWS Well-Architected Tool and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Featured Review
Dayanand-Ksheemakaari
Has an efficient adaptability feature and helps us set up a high-performing architecture.
The tool helps us establish a baseline for the architecture. Our organization can follow all guidelines and adhere to the industry standards to set... Read more →
ShahidMahmood
An Intuitive Tool that covers Enterprise and Solutions Architecture and has ability to Integrate Third-Party Products
Working with the solution being right around keeping an asset repository that various projects and programs can utilize. So it's about reusability... Read more →
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Pros
"The product's most valuable feature is adaptability."

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"It's a stable and scalable solution. I like that it's similar to Rational Rose.""The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget.""Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements.""Sparx technical support is good.""Its ability to reference and link to components from any diagram.""Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is very flexible and it is simple to define the metamodel. Additionally, it is lightweight on resources.""The best thing about the tool is that its database is open.""Provides a single repository for all architecture work."

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Cons
"They could provide a simplified process for building and deploying solutions in the cloud."

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"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.""For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools.""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.""I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team.""The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to.""When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team.""I have found the solution is lacking options. The general usability needs improvement and more compliance to CML definitions.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The platform’s pricing depends on the specific project requirements."

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  • "The Corporate Edition, or one of the bundles, is the way to go."
  • "Use floating licenses strategically."
  • "The pricing for ultimate version is steeply high."
  • "Licenses are pretty low cost compared to, for example, ARIS."
  • "It’s the best deal in town, by far."
  • "Pricing and licensing is very attractive, simple, and straightforward."
  • "Pricing and licensing are suitable even for small companies."
  • "In terms of cost, Sparx EA is probably one of the cheapest tools I have ever used."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about AWS Well-Architected Tool?
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable feature is adaptability.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Well-Architec...
    Top Answer:The platform’s pricing depends on the specific project requirements. Customers sometimes prefer using AWS Well-Architected Tool as they already partner with the solution provider.
    What needs improvement with AWS Well-Architected Tool?
    Top Answer:They could provide a simplified process for building and deploying solutions in the cloud.
    Sparx system comparing with ARIS and IBM blueworks.
    Top Answer:In my opinion, there is no real difference between the three tools. All three are software that help organizations model and document their business processes. However, there are some key differences… more »
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    What do you like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?
    Top Answer:The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sparx Systems Ent...
    Top Answer:It's reasonably priced for large organizations, though it may be perceived as expensive for individual users.
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    15th
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    8.0
    2nd
    out of 37 in Enterprise Architecture Management
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    Average Words per Review
    501
    Rating
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    AWS Well Architected Tool
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    Overview

    The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review the state of your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices. The tool is based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient application infrastructure. This Framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, has been used in tens of thousands of workload reviews conducted by the AWS solutions architecture team, and provides guidance to help implement designs that scale with application needs over time.

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is an enterprise solution that helps streamline, accelerate, and integrate software, system, and business development. With this intuitive modeling and design solution, enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, enable collaboration, support their teams and colleagues, and manage complex projects. Software architects, business analysts, project managers, developers, support staff, and testers can unite under a single repository. Through numerous view points and potential sub-systems, users are offered a unified view in a complex environment.

    With Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, users are also offered a shared model option which can be accessed quickly and securely by in-office and remote team members through the Enterprise Architect’s Pro Cloud Server. Building a coherent, verifiable model can be done by connecting and integrating a variety of behavioral and structural information in visual form. As a result, Enterprise Architect offers high performance, flexibility, and the ability to model, manage, and trace every stage of the business development and modeling process.

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Features

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect assists in creating a unified and accessible vision in business development by offering a flexible platform with a unique set of rich features. These features include:

    • Test and debug - Streamline software development and visualize software with the simulation process. Users can test and confirm correct behavior, set and oversee test points, and debug and examine software.
    • Track tasks - Track, prioritize, and assign individual and group tasks to assist in the model’s development. Users can visually monitor their progress through the Gantt chart.
    • Open standards - Users can visualize and analyze running software with integrated custom tools. They can also run advanced simulations, team-based repositories, testing tools, and version control. In addition, the solution supports enterprise architecture frameworks such as UPDM and TOGAF.
    • Simulation - Create and debug embedded solutions by simulating behaviors and state models. Users can specify events, triggers, constraints, and more. Users can also specify extensive and complex structural systems and create custom domain-specific solutions.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect merges high-end tools, online availability, a dedication to open standards, and accessible pricing so enterprises can stay in control of their workplaces, whether remote or in-office. Users particularly like the architectural frameworks and the scalability.

    Marc L., a principal architecture enterprise solution adviser at Cronomagic Canada, notes, "The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."

    An enterprise architect at a manufacturing company writes, "Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Government11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Government16%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization14%
    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise78%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    AWS Well-Architected Tool is ranked 15th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. AWS Well-Architected Tool is rated 8.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Well-Architected Tool writes "Has an efficient adaptability feature and helps us set up a high-performing architecture. ". 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". AWS Well-Architected Tool is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, SAP PowerDesigner and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX.

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