"We have many use cases for this solution but the feature I have found most valuable is the IT Portfolio Management module."
"HOPEX has a panel that offers various views. I think that is very good. MEGA has an app for integrating with a lot of apps. We help our clients integrate HOPEX with a different product like Apple Gateway, for example. I've been with the company for 15 years, and we connect with everything. Our clientele includes almost all of the banks in Mexico."
"Its availability is very good."
"This is a complete package with all of the functionality that we need."
"Every module sets up the same information in a unique repository."
"The most valuable parts of this solution are the richness of its features and its easy interface."
"What I find the most valuable is the process workflow. It is really good."
"The support experience in Latin America is great."
"The most valuable feature of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is the value streams."
"It has led some teams to do better code reviews - to be less focussed on coding conventions (syntax) and more focussed on the semantics because of the abstraction level clear design affords."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"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."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is very flexible and it is simple to define the metamodel. Additionally, it is lightweight on resources."
"Better documentation and training would be helpful."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Lacking more out of the box integrations."
"MEGA HOPEX's problem is that it is expensive, but it's a fantastic tool."
"The initial setup can be quite complex at first."
"We have a very close relationship with MEGA representatives in Mexico, and we ask them why they don't offer impact analysis. For example, we have a server in the center and provide the client a view of what's in the peripheral area, like one cluster, application, process area, and services. We want to offer our clients that level of visibility with HOPEX."
"It would be great if this solution could integrate with other tools such as ITSM (ServiceNow) or CMDB."
"This product is expensive and would be improved by lowering its price."
"One room for improvement in Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is that it's not very friendly. Another room for improvement in the tool is that it doesn't enable you to import the metadata from a database very easily, so reverse engineering of a database was very difficult. Its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement."
"The integration could be improved."
"The fact that you can do a lot yourself is a plus point, but it also becomes a challenge because you need an understanding of the programming languages to get things to work. It becomes challenging for those who are not very good at programming. You have standard reports, but if you want to make your own reports, you have to program it. Similarly, if you want validations rules, you have to take care of them yourself."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"The initial setup of the Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect It's very complicated. It's very difficult to start with the right templates because there are many possibilities. The deployment took approximately two days."
"I think the product is good. When I'm trying to do something specific for some part of project documentation, it's hard to get it figured out if you don't use it all the time. It's such a massive tool, it's hard to figure out how to dig in and get to the documentation where you have to be to get some idea of what to do. There are not a lot of examples that I'm aware of to be able to do that."
"The areas of improvement should be focused on utility service such as producing better graphics, perhaps having a wider image library set and producing better models for working directly with customers."
"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."
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MEGA HOPEX is ranked 8th in Architecture Management with 8 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 1st in Architecture Management with 41 reviews. MEGA HOPEX is rated 7.8, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MEGA HOPEX writes "Excellent support experience that is local to South America and is easy to expand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "Great pricing with an easy initial setup and a comprehensive toolkit". MEGA HOPEX is most compared with ARIS BPA, LeanIX, iServer, Avolution ABACUS and erwin Data Modeler (DM), whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, No Magic MagicDraw, Visio, ARIS BPA and erwin Data Modeler (DM). See our MEGA HOPEX vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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