We performed a comparison between PTC Windchill and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."I like how the product integrates with other technical solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is the value streams."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"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."
"Simplified our task at maintaining architecture information and traceability with requirements."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"The Business Process Modeling or BPM part is the most valuable. Its ability to simulate scenarios is also very useful. It can also create descriptions of the workflows. It has a feature in which if you create some BPMN process, a workflow diagram, and the description inside, you can actually simulate the whole scenario, and you get the description. That's very handy."
"Some parts of the system are exclusive, so we can't work with them."
"Weak in regards to data modelling. No logical or physical modelling or migration from conceptual to physical."
"In general, we now have a problem with Sparx Enterprise Architect because many analysts think it's too complicated to use in a giant environment."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"It would be great if we could decrease the use of different parts of the Toolbox."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"I would like to see integration with Confluence or any other TRM, and the capability to integrate with the data storage, such as a repository similar to GitHub."
"The window froze for five or ten seconds. You can click and click again and it takes a second to come up. It might have been specific to a version."
"The database management area was not usable."
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PTC Windchill is ranked 22nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. PTC Windchill is rated 5.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PTC Windchill writes "Pricy and tough to integrate with some solutions, though it provided essential support for workflows". 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". PTC Windchill is most compared with Intralink, Omnify Empower PLM, Siemens PLM TeamCenter, Aras Innovator and Arena PLM, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX.
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