We performed a comparison between PTC Windchill and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."I like how the product integrates with other technical solutions."
"There are a lot of features in Enterprise Architect. It allows us to take on a lot of tasks."
"It is a handy tool for visual modeling that provides opportunities for analysis, design, and support of models using ArchiMate, UML."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"Some of the business processes are very easy to compare when you have the diagrams."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"Its traversability is most valuable. I can use ArchiMate, and I can create a UML model. ArchiMate is for logical enterprise architecture, UML is for software engineering, and BPMN is for business processes. I can build it to have multiple models, and they are also traversable, which is not something that every tool allows. If there is a huge organization, you can segment it and have separate models for business technology or internal resource management system. You don't need to keep them in one model, and you can decide to segregate them."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"Some parts of the system are exclusive, so we can't work with them."
"When many users are accessing the system at the same time, Sparx slows down. It can't easily support a large team."
"Not visually appealing."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"Because its easy to create diagrams one needs to be vigilant on the housekeeping of orphaned fragments - I have written my own scripts to do this, maybe they are available now."
"The UI is a little bit outdated. It should be more fresh and clean."
"It took me a while to figure out how to use the report generation features effectively. So, it would be really nice if they had a way to make that a little bit more interactive and a little bit more straightforward."
"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."
"Sparx can be a bit slow. If you are trying to design software architecture, sometimes we run into issues and need to refresh."
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PTC Windchill is ranked 22nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. PTC Windchill is rated 5.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PTC Windchill writes "Pricy and tough to integrate with some solutions, though it provided essential support for workflows". 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". PTC Windchill is most compared with Intralink, Omnify Empower PLM, Siemens PLM TeamCenter, Arena PLM and Aras Innovator, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX.
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