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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avolution ABACUS

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AABACUS, from Australian software company Avolution, is an enterprise architecture modeling tool.N/A

    iServer365

    Score6.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    iServer is an enterprise architecture management tool from Orbus Software headquartered in London, that leverages the Microsoft technology stack to ensure a short learning curve and familiar interfaces.N/A

    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AEnterprise Architect is the flagship architecture management platform from global, Australian-headquartered company Sparx Systems.

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    Chose Avolution ABACUS
    More flexible and user friendly interface.
    Better customization enables organisations to grow based on their maturity and requirements
    Avolution is highly rated on Gartner and Forrester reviews
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    Sparx Systems
    Chose Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Price: Sparx blows away the competition being less expensive by orders of magnitude Features: It compares favorably with the competition w.r.t. modeling architecture. It's not an APM, risk management or any other kind of tool. Support: It provides excellent e-mail technical …
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    Avolution ABACUSiServer365Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
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    Avolution
    Well suited scenarios include IT portfolio management, project portfolio management, enterprise architecture planning, modeling of business capabilities, using standard frameworks that ship out of the box such as TOGAF, and integration with SharePoint. Less appropriate scenarios would be detailed data modeling and using the tool expecting to get model drive code execution.
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    Sparx Systems
    Enterprise Architect can be used to capture business requirements, design and management of all successive models, algorithms, process flows/workflows, design of business data objects and other artifacts. The strong point is the ability to link the items in all models with each other, the more time the analysts and designers "invest" into making nice and clearly defined models, the higher the future pay-off by any successive changes to the systems. Enterprise Architect is not a good tool for capturing rather unstructured business requirements, use e.g. Confluence or other solutions instead. EA should comprise the extracted models with very little unstructured information. Management of the changes process should not be done in Enterprise Architect, rather use JIRA/Confluence or similar.
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    Pros
    Avolution
    • Modelling the Enterprise through the creation of catalogues and matrices of Enterprise information
    • Creation of views to supports strategy execution and decision making
    • Central storage of Enterprise information
    • Management of a agreed meta model
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    Sparx Systems
    • Open Architecture - A wide and extensive set of options, plug-ins and customization options make Sparx EA more of a tool kit than just a tool. Most tools allow customization but Sparx EA is built from the ground up with this in mind.
    • Wide variety of formats, lexicons, standards and data import export capabilities allow different roles to interact with the information in different ways.
    • Automated report generation allows architects and designers to spend less taking on word processing and more time on performing architecture and design.
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    Cons
    Avolution
    • More standard connectors for integration with other modeling tools could be beneficial for companies having legacy tools/fragmented toolsets.
    • Better automated diagramming features would be useful.
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    Sparx Systems
    • Needs someone that is very conversant with business modelling terminology
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    Highly knowledgable team and fast response times
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    Orbus Software
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    Sparx Systems
    The support team of Sparx EA, based in Australia, is always willing to help and give direction.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Avolution
    - Microsoft tools are manual and data is not centralized
    - ARIS is not as flexible as Avolution
    - LeanIX is close, but lacks business content/accelerators that Avolution provides
    - LeanIX is in the cloud and multi-user
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    Orbus Software
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    Sparx Systems
    BiZZdesign represents a different new concept to enterprise architecture, its gravity center is not technical modelling, but rather a view on capturing the whole end-user experience or customer journey. It also allows to grasp areas as internal company capabilities, required for adoption/changes and operation of the solution, uses the same Archimate modelling language. This solution is in my opinion a new generation enabling to not only design the solutions, but also manage the whole application portfolio with respect to capabilities and requirement parameters.
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    Return on Investment
    Avolution
    • Positive - time to value for EA activities
    • Positive - robust decision making
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    Orbus Software
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    Sparx Systems
    • This program speed up the development process. It generates the actual code with my model classes after modeling
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