We performed a comparison between SAP PowerDesigner 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."I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"It's a great tool for documentation."
"Very good repository features."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"I do a data-centric design, so for me, the data analysis and design tools are the most valuable features."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"The most valuable feature of SAP PowerDesigner is the testing of the models, it has the best function. Reverse engineering is very helpful too."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"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."
"Sparx Prolaborate is user-friendly, easy to use, and has good documentation."
"It is valuable to have diagrams available in real time."
"Its extensibility is most valuable."
"It allows us to give a better description of our project than using the written word."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"One disadvantage of SAP PowerDesigner is that you cannot reverse engineer the ALTER statements, so that's an enhancement or area for improvement I'm looking forward to seeing from the SAP team in the future. That should directly reflect on the physical data models my company builds."
"SAP PowerDesigner can improve the ease of use. It is not the best tool on the market because it is tough to navigate and use. A beginner would not be able to use it well, it requires some experience. If the solution was more user-friendly it would be able to be used by more audiences. I do not think many people are aware of this solution and they should use it."
"Connectivity can be improved because it's not very good."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"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 solution could offer different sources for design."
"The product is not very user-friendly."
"There should be more cloud capabilities."
"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."
SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 32 reviews while Sparx Prolaborate is ranked 19th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 5 reviews. SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0, while Sparx Prolaborate is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Difficult to operate, long process to publish, but scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sparx Prolaborate writes "Diagram are available in real time but edits sometimes require a manual refresh". SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and LeanIX, whereas Sparx Prolaborate is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, LeanIX and Sparx Pro Cloud Server. See our SAP PowerDesigner vs. Sparx Prolaborate report.
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