We performed a comparison between QualiWare X 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."I like the solution's traceability."
"Automated document generation is a real time saver, no more cut and paste, no more keeping track of which diagrams are in which reports, no more last minute update panics. Just click a mouse and you've got an up to date report."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and adaptability of Sparx Enterprise Architect."
"Ability to model and create view under same roof."
"Provides a single repository for all architecture work."
"The advantages of Enterprise are that it's cheaper and much more practical than MagicDraw."
"The solution saved a lot of time, about 30%."
"Its ease of use and the breadth of the toolkit are most valuable. It has an incredible repository of artifacts to work with, and they're all cross-referenced. It works with a whole bunch of different standards. It works with BPMN, which is Business Process Modeling Notation, and it also works with something called TOGAF, which is the Open Group Architecture Foundation. There are different layers when you're dealing with architecture. There is the user interface, application, data, data servers, and all that kind of stuff. You have the infrastructure, hardware, and software layers, and then you have the application and business capability layers. You can model a business process and decompose it into all of the applications, data, and hardware to support it."
"The solution is not easy and intuitive to use. I would also like the software to have a reference metamodel that can guide the modeling."
"No way to implement data integrity and referential integrity constraints."
"If you just want to create some diagrams with shapes and arrows, then use Visio."
"I struggled with most of the features for this tool, as did the rest of our architecture team."
"The elements of the modeling sets can have better customization and visual representation. It would be great to have a mobile version."
"Using EA involves a steep learning curve if you want to understand its capabilities and functionality."
"The stability and performance of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect could still be improved. Setup for it is also slightly complicated and could be improved."
"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."
"More challenging than other tools to maintain documents and document versions for an architecture board review."
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QualiWare X is ranked 23rd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 3 reviews while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Architecture Management with 97 reviews. QualiWare X is rated 7.6, while Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of QualiWare X writes "Works as a reference for architecture but not very intuitive ". 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". QualiWare X is most compared with ARIS Cloud and Avolution ABACUS, whereas Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is most compared with Visual Paradigm, Visio, No Magic MagicDraw, Lucidchart and LeanIX. See our QualiWare X vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect report.
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