Abstract vs. Azul Platform Prime

• Large teams with dedicated design operations support
• UX managers that want a facilitated workflow for their teams
• Disciplined teams of individual contributors that want to adopt a process in their UI workflow
• Cross-discipline teams that want a central collaboration space for reviewing and critiquing UI artifacts
• If your files are named "FOR-REALS_FINAL_FINAL_FINAL_Super-Important-Project (copy).sketch"
• If you're managing multiple pattern libraries

Incentivized

Azul helped use reduce and more efficiently use our AWS EC2 resources. We approached them in Q3 of 2021 with the goal of reducing our overall latency on the JVM 8 platform. They managed to do that for us in such a way that we could expand our options within EC2 for machine architectures and take advantage of additional resources on existing infrastructure that OpenJDK could not at that time.

I'd recommend the platform for teams that are looking to focus on their business problems and not wanting to allocate engineering staff to be full time JVM engineers. I'd also recommend them for companies that have a large extant JVM systems that want a fairly easy way to optimize their current systems without entire rewrites.

• Allows for collaboration within Sketch.
• Allows for approval of work by team leads.

Incentivized

• Improved real-time JVM
• Cost effective
• product support

Incentivized

• People and permission management.
• Sharing particular states (presentation, inspection, etc.).
• New projects from templates.
• Pattern library migration (new users).

Incentivized

• Support
• GC logging

Incentivized

Abstract has a difficult learning curve. If a feature-branch workflow is new to you, then it will take some getting used to. They make a lot of updates to the interface and these feature releases get ahead of their documentation. They rely heavily on an excellent customer support team and are present on various Slack channels to help design professionals with issues.

Incentivized

Good features, Higher throughput, improved security

Incentivized

Customer support seems to be fast at responding. We haven't had issues yet at least

Incentivized

Prime support has been responsive in helping us tune our JVM parameters and diagnose any lingering Java resource issues.

I purchased and administer Abstract. It was requested by our design department who evaluated it.

Incentivized

Oracle was costlier whereas OpenJDK had less frequent updates. Azul was average of both of them, so it was choosen.

Incentivized

• Single source of truth for the team.
• Could quickly get expensive with corporate accounts.

Incentivized

• A lot of OPEX savings
• Easy annual license renewal subscription
• Standard product usage since it is compatible across different Operating Systems.

Incentivized