We performed a comparison between OpenText ProVision 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."The stability of the product is very good."
"All the features come as part of a standard license."
"OpenText ProVision's best feature is the capability to attach a variety of attributes and extract and analyze that information."
"Scalability is not a problem. You can always increase the footprint of what the thing can do because it's so powerful."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"Large variety of profiles and frameworks available out-of-the-box without the need for customization."
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"It's like a repository. So far, we use it only for Information Modelling."
"Integrating with or interfacing with other tools like data management tools would be very helpful."
"Lacks the ability to have your own in-house developments."
"OpenText ProVision's collaboration management is quite complicated and difficult to use."
"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."
"Not visually appealing."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"Its best features are not intuitive or easy to learn. Most companies I have worked with, when I see what they are doing with it , are not using more than 5% of what they could and should be doing with it."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"The presentation graphics need to be improved in future builds."
"It really did not work for logical modeling. The look is very old-fashioned. You can't make the diagrams easy on the eye, so we ended up drawing them again in Visio anyhow."
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OpenText ProVision is ranked 24th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 3 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. OpenText ProVision is rated 6.4, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText ProVision writes "Good attribute attachment but problems with collaboration". 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". OpenText ProVision is most compared with ARIS BPA, Visio and SAP Signavio Process Manager, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, LeanIX and Lucidchart. See our OpenText ProVision vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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