Avolution ABACUS vs. IBM Rational System Architect Designer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avolution ABACUS
Score 9.3 out of 10
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ABACUS, from Australian software company Avolution, is an enterprise architecture modeling tool.N/A
IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Score 6.2 out of 10
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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
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Free/Freemium Version
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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IBM Blueworks Live
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avolution ABACUSIBM Rational System Architect Designer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Avolution ABACUSIBM Rational System Architect Designer
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.
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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.
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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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IBM
  • MS Office exporting
  • UML modeling
  • Transformation to code
  • A reverse transformation from code
  • Integrates with other IBM products
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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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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
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Support Rating
Avolution
Highly knowledgable team and fast response times
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IBM
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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
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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.
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Return on Investment
Avolution
  • Positive - time to value for EA activities
  • Positive - robust decision making
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IBM
  • Clients like good modeling. A good diagram reduce costs in incidents and doubts of bad interpretations
  • Reduce costs of recognition of old software.
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