We performed a comparison between Planview Portfolios and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 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."Enterprise One provides end-to-end work management for the full spectrum of types of work in one tool. It affects our project management because our project management uses Planview to monitor their daily work. Every night it loads our SAP system and then they monitor the daily work. They use Planview as a full planning and monitoring tool."
"I like that it's an enterprise environment. I can look across everything that's going on and have a sense of what is going on within the organization."
"It maps back to our SDLC process pretty well. I'm able to see the stage of where things are at. We also use Azure DevOps for all of our requirements and our coding."
"Enterprise One provides a variety of types of resource assignments for assigning work to people. It's very easy and straightforward to configure these assignments. Planview allows us to see the entire workforce. We can see where our skill sets of people are, what they're working on, and allows us to make informed business decisions based on priority."
"The overall interface is very easy to use. It puts together strategy and execution across all your investments."
"We have a fairly good picture of time tracking."
"Our transparency is increasing a lot. It is helping us to get people together. There are no dark rooms anymore. In some areas or concepts, we want to add more light to every single concept. That's the big impact that the tool is having. It allows conversations between people."
"The data is the most valuable because the reporting that we provide out of Planview is priceless when compared to any other tool. The reporting has a variety of reports. It has the capabilities of Power BI. It gives us all these dashboards that we can show to our executive leadership, and they have been very well-received."
"Scalable solution for modeling, project sharing, and collaboration. Support for it is good."
"The product offers very good support for all mainstream modeling notations and architectural frameworks."
"We can easily use it with our new customers."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"Sparx offers good flexibility."
"Large variety of profiles and frameworks available out-of-the-box without the need for customization."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"I would suggest for the request module that they open up the fields and columns so it's like we are doing our work in the work module. You can't do that with today. We also have to make sure that the fields can go both ways with the request and work modules. Including fields in the column sets would be helpful, because today they only use attributes."
"Some of the out-of-the-box reporting is not immediately useful and although it can be configured or customized, there are still improvements that can be made."
"Our version is definitely set up a bit more waterfall world. It would be better if some of the agile features were more in the standard product."
"Configuring the UI in the content management system is too elaborate and too time-consuming."
"One of the reasons why we've upgraded so many times is because of performance standards. We've just run into issues where we've had performance problems. Maybe they are not upgrading, but they're adding more horsepower. Then, we do go upgrade and lose that horsepower, which is frustrating from my perspective as an admin to lose that horsepower. Hopefully, that'll change."
"When I started working with Planview, I didn't know anything about project or resource management. I had to learn everything: the admin side, then the user side of it. Probably, in the beginning, I would implement in the blueprint or workshops more demos. A live demo of how the system works because we would like a little deeper dive in how the application works for us to understand what we need to provide, what we are doing, what we will be doing. Because in the beginning, it was so overwhelming, and we didn't know anything about the tool."
"It could do with a quicker response time for some reports or portfolios."
"There's still a lot of reluctance within the organization. We're not using all of the capabilities that we have today. We're still doing our strategic and capital investment planning on spreadsheets rather than using the capabilities that exist within Enterprise One. I definitely need to leverage the experts here at Planview to help drive a culture change. There's just a lot of reluctance on behalf of people within the company to put data into the tool."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"More challenging than other tools to maintain documents and document versions for an architecture board review."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"The integration could be improved."
"No way to implement data integrity and referential integrity constraints."
"Their technical support is not good in India. I wrote to them because I had a question, but I never got an answer. So, I just left it behind."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
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Planview Portfolios is ranked 11th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 63 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Planview Portfolios is rated 8.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Planview Portfolios writes "Helps prioritize projects, share the big picture with management, and has a great planning capacity". 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". Planview Portfolios is most compared with Broadcom Clarity , Planview PPM Pro, LeanIX, Planview ProjectPlace and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Planview Portfolios vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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