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We performed a comparison between LeanIX and Sparx Prolaborate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Architecture Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed LeanIX vs. Sparx Prolaborate Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"I like the tool’s integration and maps.""The usability is very high. It almost looks like a Facebook for Enterprise architecture, it's pretty nice. It's HTML5 based. The repository is very easy. It has 10 different ways of sorting the objects you have in your architecture repository. Maintaining new data or to add data to your repository is very easy.""Interfaces well with downstream systems of data.""One of the product's most valuable features is its ability to configure hardware devices.""The most valuable feature would be application portfolio management, which is where they came from, but over time, they have got artificial intelligence. They built up a very good repository. If I identify a system by name, from historical information, oftentimes, they can tell me that this is deployed with this number of CPUs and they can give me a really good profile of the application for me to put it into a change management database with very little effort.""It offers neat visualization and referencing functionality while enabling the creation of landscape maps and showing the relationship between different applications.""LeanIX has a great application information architecture.""The ability to import data and generate reports from it. That's where its power lies."

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"Its extensibility is most valuable.""Sparx Prolaborate is user-friendly, easy to use, and has good documentation.""What is really powerful in Sparx is the way in which you can model business processes. You can link business processes to organizational objectives. You can also take those business processes and link them to specific product features that you want to deliver.""It is valuable to have diagrams available in real time.""It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word."

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Cons
"Does a poor job of being able to allocate detailed costings to components within the network.""Another area for improvement is that when you're starting to look into more advanced information, using the solution's APIs and its customizations, documentation for that specific aspect is not very good. There is not too much support built into the offering for that aspect, for a developer.""The solution’s API integration needs to improve. I would like to see a digital screen watch feature also in the solution.""It's hard to predict the pricing of the system.""They should improve the out of the box connectors that they provide. They should see if clients are really ready to adapt them.""Report generation could be more detailed. There are some shortcomings when creating reports. We can't create tag-based reports or go beyond basic technical reports.""The modeling could be improved.""They're probably positioned pretty well. I hope that they would not focus that much on the business architecture, and they would focus more on the overall cloud strategy and how we can leverage multi-cloud and transition back and forth from other cloud providers. With a lot of current vendors, you get locked in with one cloud, and then you try to migrate to someone else, and it becomes very problematic. What they need to do is to look at the overall data strategy, and they probably need to amplify their data strategy, especially around multi-cloud."

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"The solution could offer different sources for design.""A lot of product teams use a lot of visualizations for mapping out the product roadmap, brainstorming, or understanding the vision of the product, but Sparx is not a great visualization tool. Sparx has to improve the way for visualizing processes, journeys, software designs, etc. It would really benefit the product management teams or even enterprise architects.""There should be more cloud capabilities.""In the next release, there should be more editable objects. We find Sparx Prolaborate very user-friendly, and having more features that are in the Enterprise Architect would be great, such as managing different versions of diagrams.""The product is not very user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "As the tool is cloud-based, its cost is more affordable."
  • "The solution's pricing is based on a licensing model that is competitive and in line with other products."
  • "There is a sweet spot of where they need to be on pricing right now. They could go up a little bit in pricing, but it has to do with the cost savings, and it has to do with the practitioners using it. I use it where I get cost savings and I can justify it, but they probably have the ability to flex a 10% up channel on their sales on that. So, they could increase their settle price, not their offering price, when they sell. They can probably hold that up a little bit higher than it is because there are cost savings that we can drive from it."
  • "The tool needs to include more flexible licensing options. We do not use the tool all the time. So pricing should be considered only when we use the tool."
  • "I would rate the pricing a one out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
  • "The pricing is very good. We definitely get good value for the money."
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  • "The price of Sparx Prolaborate is good."
  • "The product is expensive."
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    Top Answer:Hi @Cheryl Joseph ​Looking at the crossover between Project and Portfolio management with EA, then Planview could be a good choice. If looking at Portfolio Management from an EA perspective then… more »
    Top Answer:The ability to import data and generate reports from it. That's where its power lies.
    Top Answer:The pricing is very good. We definitely get good value for the money.
    Top Answer:It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word.
    Top Answer:The product is not very user-friendly. It takes time to learn the concept. The user-friendliness and the learning curve must be improved. It takes quite a lot of time for experienced engineers to use.
    Top Answer:We use the product primarily for model-based engineering.
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    Overview

    LeanIX delivers collaborative Enterprise Architecture designed for modern IT. Our open, data-driven architecture management model helps organizations adapt to the evolving demands of digital. From agile to multi-cloud and beyond, architecture teams using LeanIX have the power to strategically support the business and report 45% reduction in time to value delivery. More than 90,000 users across enterprises worldwide rely on LeanIX to manage their IT landscape, including adidas, Bosch, 7Eleven, and Zalando.

    A high level tour of Sparx Systems latest product release, Prolaborate.

    Prolaborate adds a vital information layer to Sparx Systems modeling tool suite, addressing the need of end users and non-modelers alike to be informed by the enterprise model.

    In this webinar we'll show how Prolaborate empowers relevant stakeholders, including C-level executives, analysts and other business users, with curated views of the model.

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    adidas, Bosch, Chico's, Haworth, Helvetia, KuKa, Osram, Telekom, TUI, Santander, Swarovski, Vaillant, 7Eleven, and Zalando.
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Government17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    LeanIX vs. Sparx Prolaborate
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX vs. Sparx Prolaborate and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    LeanIX is ranked 1st in Enterprise Architecture Management with 16 reviews while Sparx Prolaborate is ranked 19th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 5 reviews. LeanIX is rated 8.6, while Sparx Prolaborate is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of LeanIX writes "Streamlines the process of identifying apps nearing end-of-life or requiring retirement and facilitates informed decisions about app retention". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sparx Prolaborate writes "Diagram are available in real time but edits sometimes require a manual refresh". LeanIX is most compared with ServiceNow, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, MEGA HOPEX, ADOIT and iServer, whereas Sparx Prolaborate is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Sparx Pro Cloud Server. See our LeanIX vs. Sparx Prolaborate report.

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