We performed a comparison between iServer 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."There were lots of different requirements, and collaboration and review is one of the biggest things. There is also Office 360 integration, and there's flexibility to use it as a database as well."
"The initial setup is easy."
"iServer is a solution that helps catalog enterprise architect solutions and catalog information."
"It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."
"The most valuable features of iServer are the integration with Microsoft Office and the interface is similar to Microsoft applications making them easy to use."
"We like the governance."
"The product has a valuable customized model."
"Tech support is very responsive. They solved issues within a prompt response time."
"It is a very rich tool in terms of the functionality, and the types of diagrams, that you can create in this tool."
"The TOGAF ADM model is most valuable. It is also very cheap as compared to other options in the market."
"Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was easy to set up and it took just twenty minutes."
"Its traversability is most valuable. I can use ArchiMate, and I can create a UML model. ArchiMate is for logical enterprise architecture, UML is for software engineering, and BPMN is for business processes. I can build it to have multiple models, and they are also traversable, which is not something that every tool allows. If there is a huge organization, you can segment it and have separate models for business technology or internal resource management system. You don't need to keep them in one model, and you can decide to segregate them."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"I have found the Meta Model tuning feature useful as it provides me with an overview of all my work needs."
"The profiles allow me to customize the tool to the corporate environment instead of the other way around saving huge amounts of time and energy on trying to turn dozens of individuals into TOGAF, ArchiMate or Zachman experts, or even Sparx EA experts."
"We could capture the process models around 24 countries with all their local variations."
"Enhancing integration options with ERP or ITSM-related solutions for triggering automated requests for process definitions, changes, and tracking them in the iServer."
"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."
"Cannot see which activities are control activities."
"There could be features for process mining, process simulation, and analytics."
"It definitely needs help to improve the visual aspect of the solution."
"It runs relatively slowly."
"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."
"I haven't used this solution long enough to know what areas could be improved."
"The elements of the modeling sets can have better customization and visual representation. It would be great to have a mobile version."
"This solution is quite complex to use. It would be nice if the learning curve wasn't so steep."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"The Portfolio Management features can be added in the next release. As it helps you to manage more portfolio of projects and architectures of cost projects on a portfolio level. This would be an important feature in the next release."
"I would like the system to more "intellectually" build a scheme, place icons, and connect lines on the schemes."
"The initial setup of the Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect It's very complicated. It's very difficult to start with the right templates because there are many possibilities. The deployment took approximately two days."
"The documentation needs a bit of improvement. What I find is that when I'm trying to do something specific for some part of a project, in terms of documentation, it's kind of hard to get at figuring out if you don't use it all the time."
"Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance"
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iServer is ranked 6th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 15 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. iServer is rated 7.2, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. 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 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". iServer is most compared with LeanIX, Visio, ARIS BPA, MEGA HOPEX and BiZZdesign HoriZZon, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and ADOIT. See our Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect vs. iServer report.
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Hello,
My advise is to think about Mega EA, according to Garthner analysis , it
is the best EA tools in 2013 and 2014. and since I am using it, I can tell
you that is definitely the best EA tools in my opinion.
I have not used those two. I have used/use IBM Systems Architect, Visual Paradigm and Rational Rose and my experience with those is that is you want true team cooperation, they always ask you to buy something more. Usually there is a separate tool/SW to make teamwork work. Give them all the specs ahead of time so that if something is not there, you can go back and ask for them to fix the problem.
Dorian W Smith