IBM Rational System Architect Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.7 out of 5

5 reviews
83% willing to recommend

1,283 followers

What is IBM Rational System Architect?

IBM Rational System Architect is an enterprise architecture solution for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating enterprise architecture and business process analysis. This solution provides decision support, process optimization, and integration into solution delivery. Rational System Architect addresses all aspects of your organization's enterprise architecture, including modeling, publishing, analysis, and execution.

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IBM Rational System Architect is the #20 ranked solution in top Enterprise Architecture Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Rational System Architect an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. IBM Rational System Architect is most commonly compared to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect: IBM Rational System Architect vs Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. IBM Rational System Architect is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a manufacturing company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Enterprise Architecture Management

October 2024

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Entrprsarch67

Enterprise Architecture Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I am using this solution for building enterprise architecture models. It is an on-premises deployment model The most valuable feature of this solution is modeling. I find that almost every feature related to the models requires improvement. For example, I would like to see more trendy models,…

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Guy Meyongo

IT/Business Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I work for a bank and we are using IBM Rational System Architect in our department There are a lot of features I find valuable, but I think that the metamodel customization is one of the best features that the solution offers. In terms of what could be improved, we did not take the whole package…

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it_user186384

Enterprise Architect at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

The product supports a variety of meta-frameworks (Zachman, Togaf 9) and application portfolio scoring models. The product also has a very versatile plugin and data importation set of features that allows for the construction of heterogeneous models comprised of multiple internal and external model…

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IBM Rational System Architect mindshare

As of October 2024, the mindshare of IBM Rational System Architect in the Enterprise Architecture Management category stands at 2.0%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"There are a lot of features I find valuable, but I think that the metamodel customization is one of the best features that the solution offers."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"We have seen ROI with this solution over the years that we have used it."

Room for Improvement

"The reverse engineering of the database is already there, but in the next release I would like to see some pilot supplied with the solution in order to address any database."
"The solution needs to better integrate with other products, like Microsoft."
"This solution can be more user-friendly and easier to use, with better dashboards."

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