IBM Rational System Architect Designer vs. LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)

IBM Rational System Architect Designer

IBM Rational System Architect Designer

7 Reviews and Ratings

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Rational System Architect Designer	Score 6.2 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
LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	LeanIX 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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	IBM Rational System Architect Designer	LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
Top Pros	Pro Ms office Pro Ibm products	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Sql server Minus Not cheap Minus Good ui	No answers on this topic

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User Ratings
	IBM Rational System Architect Designer	LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Rational System Architect Designer	LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
Likelihood to Recommend	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	LeanIX Not a 10, because now SAP is owner, there remains uncertainty on the development and pricing strategy. we struggle a bit with defining thr complex architecture of our non-sap ERP platform, but we learn as we go. Very interesting also to start up interfaces, seems to work very well and helpfull in maintaining the proper insights Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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	LeanIX User friendly Configurable Relations between fact sheets Lifecycle management Self build reports Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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	LeanIX More depth in initiatives. Pre- fill with complete architecture of major solutions (like M365, infor m3 or other non SAP solutions) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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	LeanIX We did not do a comparisson Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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	LeanIX We use it for portfolio management and through its use, are enabled for better prioritization and selection of projects We reduced our application portfolio that were overlapping in features We identified weak process areas and are now able to challenge business projects in relation to process maturity and user happiness Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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