DbSchema vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

Well suited to a team working directly in the physical modeling space.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Many database platforms supported
• Direct database integration - option to have model actions reflected immediately in database.
• Test data generation with Groovy scripting for control over specific profiles

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Logical data model integration is weak. Need way to update existing models with changes
• Conceptual data modeling is missing

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• Needs someone that is very conversant with business modelling terminology

Incentivized

DbSchema does a number of things very well, but is not as full featured as many customers will want

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The support team of Sparx EA, based in Australia, is always willing to help and give direction.

Incentivized

Some of the other Tools are no longer supported, and DbSchema is much less expensive than most of them.

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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.

Incentivized

• DbSchema is very inexpensive, and functional, so easy to get a team started

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• This program speed up the development process. It generates the actual code with my model classes after modeling

Incentivized