We performed a comparison between SAP Signavio Process Manager and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The collaboration function in the project views is valuable because people can comment on the processes and we can respond."
"The most valuable feature for me is the collaboration point of view, where everybody has a single view, or source of truth, and everybody sees the same thing. Everyone can comment, contribute, and discuss the processes itself, which makes it easier to funnel down the most value adding comments and make the relevant changes to the processes. This leads to the next best iteration or version of your process."
"All in all, Signavio usability is excellent. Anyone can learn to use the tool quickly. This increases acceptance as employees are not facing a high learning curve. With the offered usability it is easy to model processes also live in workshops."
"The solution provides data mining and AI features."
"I use SAP Signavio Process Manager to model processes to the former operating model."
"Process Manager supports end-to-end transformation. Students can better understand end-to-end activity and processes as well as how they are run. For teaching, it's process discovery, then modeling, and finally optimization and simulation, partly. Typically, we showcase some simulation of the processes, and this is where we finish. That is why we validate that it's properly designed, but also what are the outcomes of modeled processes. There are also options for discussion on process optimization."
"I like the collaboration and the real-time aspects of it."
"The Signavio tool is very easy to use and it is one of the reasons why I like it."
"I like Sparx's BPM features and the way it lets you create the diagram."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is the value streams."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"Modeling is a part of my work, and it has a lot of standard modeling languages. It is quite wide, and a lot is possible in it. We are not programming it ourselves, but if you are into programming and developing software yourself, you can go further and do a lot with Sparx. You can work from the framework and go into the details. With this solution, you get a lot of value at a low cost. It is also quite intuitive in terms of use. I like the use of it."
"The features I find most valuable is the ability to create a document and then put it into a OneCare artifact."
"Ability to keep inventory of reusable blocks, and use in different diagrams with views of various templates."
"A feature I like most about Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is its ease of use."
"I think the interface itself can improve a bit. I think the interface is still stuck about a decade in the past, if I may be so brutal about it. Some of the buttons are really small, so you can't even see them. I think it needs upgrading to the 21st century with apps and the way we use mobile phones."
"The performance metrics appearing in the collaboration hub needs to be improved."
"From what I have experienced when I worked with a process team, we would like to work with dummy process diagrams. Right now, I don't know if I would set up a process as a dummy, since it very often gets mixed up with diagrams in production. There are many process diagrams linked to the production environment. I would like to have some kind of sandbox to work with. That would be very good. I don't even know if they already have it, but I would certainly like that."
"It is difficult to quickly digest the vast power of the suite and make use of those capabilities fully."
"I find it difficult to figure out how I can better align this solution with my KPIs."
"For me, given I've got a lot of experience working with BPMN and other process management tools, in terms of the interface, I think there's a little bit more that can be improved to match what the conventional BPMN offers. I've been constantly trying to give this feedback to Signavio, to let them know that it needs to be more coherent with the original BPMN version of the stencil."
"I think the biggest selling point that Signavio talks about is its collaborative aspect. However, there's still a lot more improvement in terms of what they can do, how they receive comments, address comments, whether they actually provide feedback, etc. There is still a little bit more improvement to be made on those areas."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"When the model is large, it is a bit slow to render."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"In general, we now have a problem with Sparx Enterprise Architect because many analysts think it's too complicated to use in a giant environment."
"The documentation needs a bit of improvement. What I find is that when I'm trying to do something specific for some part of a project, in terms of documentation, it's kind of hard to get at figuring out if you don't use it all the time."
"It would be great if we could decrease the use of different parts of the Toolbox."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
"The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to."
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
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SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 57 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 4th in Business Process Design with 97 reviews. SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". 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". SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, ARIS BPA, Camunda, Visio and BIC Platform , whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw and Lucidchart. See our SAP Signavio Process Manager vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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