We performed a comparison between iServer and SAP PowerDesigner 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."It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."
"We like the governance."
"iServer is a solution that helps catalog enterprise architect solutions and catalog information."
"I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."
"Tech support is very responsive. They solved issues within a prompt response time."
"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."
"The product has a valuable customized model."
"Integrating the Microsoft documents to the product and visualization matrix where we can see the end-to-end relationship of the network is of great importance to our company."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature of SAP PowerDesigner is the testing of the models, it has the best function. Reverse engineering is very helpful too."
"The most valuable features of SAP PowerDesigner are the creation the flow charts and folders. It is a powerful tool."
"The most useful feature has been the detailed possibility to model almost anything regarding physical databases."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"Very good repository features."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"There can be some performance issues using the solution that should be improved. When you make modifications modify to files there are embedded data within that can take a while to process."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"Cannot see which activities are control activities."
"The performance is slow, which is something that should be improved."
"More visualization techniques and ways to report the data might be helpful."
"The modelling needs improvement, specifically forecasting capabilities and scenarios."
"Requirements management needs to be improved."
"The migration tool needs to be included in the main package, and not as a separate license."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained."
"One disadvantage of SAP PowerDesigner is that you cannot reverse engineer the ALTER statements, so that's an enhancement or area for improvement I'm looking forward to seeing from the SAP team in the future. That should directly reflect on the physical data models my company builds."
"The portal of SAP PowerDesigner could be better. The tool also needs more features and integration with other products, such as Collibra. It would be interesting for SAP PowerDesigner to have more integration."
iServer is ranked 6th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 15 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of iServer writes "Enables flexible parameters for any process model and has a valuable document management feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, ARIS BPA, Visio and MEGA HOPEX, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and LeanIX. See our SAP PowerDesigner vs. iServer report.
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