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."
"OpenText ProVision's best feature is the capability to attach a variety of attributes and extract and analyze that information."
"All the features come as part of a standard license."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's like a repository. So far, we use it only for Information Modelling."
"Using Sparx Enterprise Architect allowed my customer to detail and make the company's IT strategy visible and accessible to all. The system provided clear roadmaps for IT development and helped to keep up-to-date documentation of systems and processes."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"It's a very practical solution. You don't need to do an advanced course to start using this tool."
"We use it to develop and maintain the Enterprise Conceptual Model, migrated from erwin a couple of years ago."
"Artifact templates are most valuable."
"OpenText ProVision's collaboration management is quite complicated and difficult to use."
"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."
"Because its easy to create diagrams one needs to be vigilant on the housekeeping of orphaned fragments - I have written my own scripts to do this, maybe they are available now."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"The templates for documentation should be enhanced to include complex documents such as template RFP, or Non functional requirements template."
"No way to implement data integrity and referential integrity constraints."
"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."
"It would be nice to have it supported on the Linux operating system."
"Insufficient control of metadata and standards."
"The database management area was not usable."
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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, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our OpenText ProVision vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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