We performed a comparison between PTC Windchill and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."I like how the product integrates with other technical solutions."
"This is a useful tool for IT people who need to design their solution architecture."
"We have found the stability to be very reliable."
"It is a very flexible product. It can do a lot. It is also a reliable product."
"Ability to maintain cross-references for all models in all levels - great tractability."
"The features I find most valuable is the ability to create a document and then put it into a OneCare artifact."
"It is simple to build the first model for the solution."
"Provides a single repository for all architecture work."
"The company has become more efficient and reduced its budget."
"Some parts of the system are exclusive, so we can't work with them."
"This solution has some limitations from a business perspective."
"Their technical support is not good in India. I wrote to them because I had a question, but I never got an answer. So, I just left it behind."
"Greater OMG UML and XMI compliance"
"It should be made Windows compatible."
"From a practical point of view, we need speed and reliability for creating a model and doing some really meaningful tasks such as application landscape, refactoring, etc. These are two primary criteria. Sometimes, when you import something, it creates the object duplicates, or it allows you to do something that you're not supposed to do. For example, validation is missing. This could be frustrating because when you work at a high speed, you need to come back and start fixing things that the tool allowed you to go with, which is not quite good. So, there should probably be some internal mechanisms to advise you about what you're doing and what is probably not the best idea."
"Not visually appealing."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"The documentation could be better. Where I work, we speak French and we don't speak English, so we don't have anything in French. It's perfect in English, but we need something in French."
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PTC Windchill is ranked 22nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. PTC Windchill is rated 5.0, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PTC Windchill writes "Pricy and tough to integrate with some solutions, though it provided essential support for workflows". 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". PTC Windchill is most compared with Intralink, Omnify Empower PLM, Siemens PLM TeamCenter, Aras Innovator and Arena PLM, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX.
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