Avolution ABACUS vs. QPR EnterpriseArchitect

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.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

Highly knowledgable team and fast response times

Incentivized

- 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

Incentivized

• Positive - time to value for EA activities
• Positive - robust decision making

Incentivized