Likelihood to Recommend I can say it is not only good but it is best Automation tool ever. Its streamline our business project and with web based solution it allows my team to document existing or new processes using process mapping capabilities. It provides powerful analytics and it is easy to use via online. I personally feel it is very intutive. For less Appropriate I can say only in terms of integration perspective with different CRM tools. Rest is all good!!!!
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros Easy to create process diagrams quickly, while collaborating with others. Create linkages to sub-processes and other workflows. Track activities using metadata such as which IT systems are utilized. Use the glossary terms to find where different roles or systems are involved in processes throughout your org. Read full review 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. Read full review Cons In particular, we have had problems with the availability of the service because the platform frequently crashed. Is not easy to pull some indicators. We would like to be able to see a different interface, long ago with the same. Payment process is not easy. Read full review Needs someone that is very conversant with business modelling terminology Read full review Support Rating I have gotten great response for the very few times I needed support.
Read full review The support team of Sparx EA, based in Australia, is always willing to help and give direction.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Blueworks Live was part of a project deal. We did not keep it after the project. We found there are many solutions offering similar or superior capabilities - the fact that Blueworks does not fully support the universal BPMN standard was a big letdown for us. The pricing also did not make sense as a standalone solution.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Return on Investment Made real time collaberation easier. Overall saving us valueable time. Excellent version control. Saving us time and helping us avoid mistakes / inaccuranies from using out of date documents. Simple and Ease to use from a web broswer reducing the need for extra servers to store the data. Read full review This program speed up the development process. It generates the actual code with my model classes after modeling Read full review ScreenShots