The Essential Project, from EAS vs. IBM Rational System Architect Designer

The Essential Project, from EAS

IBM Rational System Architect Designer

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
The Essential Project, from EAS	N/A	N/A	Enterprise Architecture Solutions headquartered in London are the founder of the Essential Project, a an Enterprise Architecture Management Tool. Essential has been developed based on their expertise as an EA Consultancy and is, therefore, built by architects for architects. Essential Cloud is a cloud deployment is our premier product offering all the benefits of Essential Open Source plus additional features that leverage cloud architecture. It is hosted in AWS, in either the EU, US or AU.…	$17,000 per year
IBM Rational System Architect Designer	Score6.2 out of 10	N/A	IBM Rational System Architect is an enterprise architecture management platform, that enables the use of abstraction to preserve design intents and tribal memory, and to provide auditable evidence of conformance to policies.	N/A

Pricing

The Essential Project, from EAS

IBM Rational System Architect Designer

Essential Cloud: $17000
per year
Essential Docker: $19,900
per year

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Pricing Offerings
The Essential Project, from EAS	IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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User Ratings
	The Essential Project, from EAS	IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	The Essential Project, from EAS	IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Likelihood to Recommend	Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd No answers on this topic	IBM If you need a whole infrastructure and architect view, IBM Rational System Architect is the way to go. If you need a single diagram or your business process is young enough to support hard documenting, you are fine with an open source tool. Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Pros	Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd No answers on this topic	IBM MS Office exporting UML modeling Transformation to code A reverse transformation from code Integrates with other IBM products Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Cons	Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd No answers on this topic	IBM Always has a price. And IBM is not cheap Sequence diagrams can get messy (still has a good UI) Only support few databases as backend repositories like SQL Server and Oracle Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd No answers on this topic	IBM If you have a budget or the need for a complex modeler or need diagram transformation to code or vice-versa, IBM Rational System Architect is the way to go. If you need few diagrams or don't need the complexity or don't have a budget, Bizagi or Star UML get the things done. Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Return on Investment	Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd No answers on this topic	IBM Clients like good modeling. A good diagram reduce costs in incidents and doubts of bad interpretations Reduce costs of recognition of old software. Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
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