We performed a comparison between Camunda 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."The most valuable features are the workflow, the task list, and the modeler where we use VPN."
"The product is stable."
"Easy to use and easy to integrate into the products and applications we provide for our customers."
"The flexibility characteristic in a BPMS, through BPMN and DMN, is undoubtedly the most interesting feature for our business."
"Camunda Platform is better than IBM BPM, and Azure. It is more elaborate."
"It is open-source. It supports microservice orchestration. This is what we are really interested in. We can customize our products depending on the use cases."
"I love that Camunda is a very developer-friendly platform, and my customers have evaluated the pricing as reasonable."
"The headless nature of the Camunda Platform is something that has helped us to build our own logic and platforms on it."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"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."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"We can easily use it with our new customers."
"Its ability to reference and link to components from any diagram."
"The solution saved a lot of time, about 30%."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
"Customization and tech stack could be up-to-date."
"Initial setup can be quite complex."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"Especially when you use the open-source version, there are issues with performance."
"Without a proper frontend, the business cannot effectively use the platform."
"When you search for Camunda BPM resources or books on how to utilize Camunda BPM, it is lacking. When it comes to Alfresco, there are thousands of resources that can help you to utilize within AWS and its Group Services. I would like to see the usage of Camunda BPM on Amazon Web Services be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see better transactional integrity."
"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."
"No way to implement data integrity and referential integrity constraints."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
"I would like the system to more "intellectually" build a scheme, place icons, and connect lines on the schemes."
"I would like to see integration with Confluence or any other TRM, and the capability to integrate with the data storage, such as a repository similar to GitHub."
"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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Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 68 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". 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". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and Appian, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Camunda vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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