We compared Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ardoq based on our user's reviews in 4 parameters. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is praised for its comprehensive modeling capabilities, a vast library of templates, and competitive pricing. Users have highlighted the need for better UI, documentation, and integration. Users found Ardoq to be flexible in data modeling, collaborative, and easy to use, with some improvements needed in integration, reporting, and customer support responsiveness. Both products offer positive ROI and excellent customer service.
Features: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect excels in comprehensive modeling and customization options with seamless integration, vast templates. Ardoq stands out for flexibility in data modeling, collaborative platform, integration capabilities, and intuitive user interface.
Pricing and ROI: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is noted for its flexibility in licensing options and overall value for the price, although some find the initial setup cost to be high. Users find Ardoq to have reasonable pricing, lower setup costs, and flexible licensing options. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is commended for its robust features and cost savings. Ardoq offers customizable features and efficient data visualization, saving time and resources.
Room for Improvement: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect users suggest improving UI, tutorials, integration, performance, and stability. Ardoq users seek better software integration, reporting, training, support, performance, pricing transparency, mobile app, UI, collaboration, security, and data protection.
Deployment and customer support: Users had mixed experiences with setting up Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, with some finding it simple and others finding it complex. Setting up Ardoq was difficult but doable for most users and took around an hour if done correctly. Ardoq can also be deployed on AWS and Azure for cloud usage. Opinions on Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect's technical support vary, with some customers finding it good while others have not interacted with the team. Ardoq's customer service is regarded as helpful and excellent, especially for paid extended support.
The summary above is based on 11 interviews we conducted recently with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ardoq users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Its ability to reference and link to components from any diagram."
"Its ease of use and the breadth of the toolkit are most valuable. It has an incredible repository of artifacts to work with, and they're all cross-referenced. It works with a whole bunch of different standards. It works with BPMN, which is Business Process Modeling Notation, and it also works with something called TOGAF, which is the Open Group Architecture Foundation. There are different layers when you're dealing with architecture. There is the user interface, application, data, data servers, and all that kind of stuff. You have the infrastructure, hardware, and software layers, and then you have the application and business capability layers. You can model a business process and decompose it into all of the applications, data, and hardware to support it."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"We have found the stability to be very reliable."
"Ability to model and create view under same roof."
"The stability has been good and satisfactory. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Provides a single repository for all architecture work."
"It is a useful tool for modeling and testing automated processes."
"The training environment wasn't very intuitive, but maybe with more use, it will get better."
"Scalability as a standalone system is good, given the information that has been described inside Ardoq. But not the scalability as a third-party system or with integration with other systems. Because in this direction, the scalability is about zero for Ardoq."
"When collaborating with other people, it needs to be more user-friendly."
"One room for improvement in Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is that it's not very friendly. Another room for improvement in the tool is that it doesn't enable you to import the metadata from a database very easily, so reverse engineering of a database was very difficult. Its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement."
"Because its easy to create diagrams one needs to be vigilant on the housekeeping of orphaned fragments - I have written my own scripts to do this, maybe they are available now."
"This solution should have better ease of use for the uninitiated."
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"Sparx can be a bit slow. If you are trying to design software architecture, sometimes we run into issues and need to refresh."
"For data modeling, it is not very mature when comparing with other data modeling tools."
"It can be improved in the area of shared documentation. The idea is that the architecture tool can call back to an enterprise asset, pull that information, and link that as a sub-artifact."
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Ardoq is ranked 11th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 2 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. Ardoq is rated 7.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ardoq writes "Provides stable performance and scalability but not intuitive for data modeling". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect writes "Easy to set up and had no issues with stability, but it's not a very friendly tool, and its database modeling and entity-relationship modeling functions need improvement". Ardoq is most compared with LeanIX, BiZZdesign HoriZZon, MEGA HOPEX, ADOIT and OrbusInfinity, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our Ardoq vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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