We performed a comparison between SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer and SAP PowerDesigner 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."Traceability is a fantastic feature."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"Very good repository features."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"The most valuable feature of SAP PowerDesigner is the testing of the models, it has the best function. Reverse engineering is very helpful too."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"SAP PowerDesigner is fairly stable."
"It can automate many routine tasks and save human resources to focus on real problems."
"The algorithm is outdated and should be upgraded."
"Connectivity can be improved because it's not very good."
"SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"The portal of SAP PowerDesigner could be better. The tool also needs more features and integration with other products, such as Collibra. It would be interesting for SAP PowerDesigner to have more integration."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"I've tried to use Power Designer to bring in images, which didn't work very well at all."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is ranked 18th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 32 reviews. SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is rated 8.0, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer writes "Great training available with traceability a key feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Difficult to operate, long process to publish, but scalable". SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is most compared with MEGA HOPEX, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Collibra Catalog.
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