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    Avolution ABACUS

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

    SAP LeanIX

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ALeanIX in Bonn focuses on controlling and reducing complexity in IT landscapes. Core of the Enterprise Architecture Management solution is an intelligent IT inventory designed to make up-to-date information and planning for the IT landscape accessible for relevant staff. LeanIX also provides an integrable cloud governance solution to its EAM solution via the Cloud Native Tool, as well as the LeanIX Smart Xplore tool to manage Digital Transformation initiatives.N/A
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    Avolution ABACUSSAP LeanIX
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Avolution ABACUSSAP LeanIX
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    Avolution
    Chose Avolution ABACUS
    - 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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    SAP
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Best Alternatives
    Avolution ABACUSSAP LeanIX
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Score5.8 out of 10
    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Score5.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Score5.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Avolution ABACUSSAP LeanIX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Avolution ABACUSSAP LeanIX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    SAP PowerDesigner allows our team of data modelers to work and collaborate from a single repository and single data dictionary. This helps enforce consistency as data elements are referenced in other objects. Prior to our use of PD, we might have an element named "ppt" in one table, "participant" in another table and "part" in a third table. By forcing everything to be used from the data dictionary, we avoid these situations because everyone has to go to the dictionary. And we are able to easily do peer reviews on models before they are released because we are collaborating through the use of the repository.
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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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    SAP
    • User friendly
    • Configurable
    • Relations between fact sheets
    • Lifecycle management
    • Self build reports
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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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    SAP
    • Licensing cost is based on user count
    • Free licensed competitors exist, and they perform similar functions
    • New database structures could be implemented more easily
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    Support Rating
    Avolution
    Highly knowledgable team and fast response times
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    SAP
    We did have to reach out to support to learn how to properly utilize the repository feature and share the data model across many developers. Support was able to help us get this set up correctly. The downside was it took us several weeks before we gave up and contacted support. We should have done that earlier. I would say, however, the documentation wasn't clear on how to do this. So support was a great big help!
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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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SAP
    We did not do a comparisson
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    Return on Investment
    Avolution
    • Positive - time to value for EA activities
    • Positive - robust decision making
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    • Standardization of models
    • Impact Analysis
    • Graphical User Interface
    • Ease of deployment
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