We performed a comparison between LeanIX and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Architecture Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the product's most valuable features is its ability to configure hardware devices."
"It offers neat visualization and referencing functionality while enabling the creation of landscape maps and showing the relationship between different applications."
"For the reporting capabilities, LeanIX provides dashboards for different levels, including CXO dashboards. There are plenty of dashboards for reporting."
"The most valuable feature would be application portfolio management, which is where they came from, but over time, they have got artificial intelligence. They built up a very good repository. If I identify a system by name, from historical information, oftentimes, they can tell me that this is deployed with this number of CPUs and they can give me a really good profile of the application for me to put it into a change management database with very little effort."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and the user experience. It's easy to map the fact sheets."
"I like the tool’s integration and maps."
"The usability is very high. It almost looks like a Facebook for Enterprise architecture, it's pretty nice. It's HTML5 based. The repository is very easy. It has 10 different ways of sorting the objects you have in your architecture repository. Maintaining new data or to add data to your repository is very easy."
"Interfaces well with downstream systems of data."
"It has led some teams to do better code reviews - to be less focussed on coding conventions (syntax) and more focussed on the semantics because of the abstraction level clear design affords."
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"Its most valuable feature is the Zachman Framework."
"There are a couple of things. Price is one thing, but we also like the scriptability of it. We got into scripting it and automating tasks with it, and it is super duper easy to do and helpful. The API has improved over the years. We automate everything, and I love the automation aspects of it."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is very flexible and it is simple to define the metamodel. Additionally, it is lightweight on resources."
"Modeling is a part of my work, and it has a lot of standard modeling languages. It is quite wide, and a lot is possible in it. We are not programming it ourselves, but if you are into programming and developing software yourself, you can go further and do a lot with Sparx. You can work from the framework and go into the details. With this solution, you get a lot of value at a low cost. It is also quite intuitive in terms of use. I like the use of it."
"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."
"The best thing about the tool is that its database is open."
"The modeling could be improved."
"The solution uses Gartner's time-based framework for application rationalization. One more thing that you can consider is having some add-on frameworks for the same, not just Gartner."
"They could include a combination of LeanIX and some modeling extensions."
"Another area for improvement is that when you're starting to look into more advanced information, using the solution's APIs and its customizations, documentation for that specific aspect is not very good. There is not too much support built into the offering for that aspect, for a developer."
"Report generation could be more detailed. There are some shortcomings when creating reports. We can't create tag-based reports or go beyond basic technical reports."
"It's hard to predict the pricing of the system."
"The whole integration architecture view of interfaces/data exchange could be improved."
"The solution’s API integration needs to improve. I would like to see a digital screen watch feature also in the solution."
"The automatic creation of reports based on the model elements could be improved."
"The dashboard and connectivity could be improved."
"No way to implement data integrity and referential integrity constraints."
"The modeling tool is targeted toward a sophisticated user."
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
"I think that collaboration can be better."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"The user interface is not so good. It's not easy for someone to use it at first. The product takes some getting used to."
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LeanIX is ranked 1st in Enterprise Architecture Management with 18 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. LeanIX is rated 8.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of LeanIX writes "Streamlines the process of identifying apps nearing end-of-life or requiring retirement and facilitates informed decisions about app retention". 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". LeanIX is most compared with ServiceNow, MEGA HOPEX, ADOIT, iServer and Avolution ABACUS, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and MEGA HOPEX. See our LeanIX vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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