


Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

What is Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect?
With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
81 Plan to Renew
74 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+76 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Fair
- Acts with Integrity
- Respectful
- Friendly Negotiation
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Repository Management
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Risk and Fraud Assessment
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Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Reviews
Iryna R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2021
Business Value delivered and budget friendly
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect from other similar products?
Price! Ability to customize, backend repository
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I can script, automate, and template many activities and deliverables. I can trace components across projects. I can run analytics or generate documentation from the repository.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Performance in the multi-user environment.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Enterprise Architect is a great product but it does not replace the business processes and governance processes, teams, that need to be organized to successfully manage the Enterprise Repository in the tool. This is the same truth for any EA application. The tool can help to automate ,many activities but the success of the implementation relies on good business and governance processes.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Sunny X.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
Fantastic product but not easy to adopt
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect from other similar products?
Sparx EA is a powerful tool with comprehensive capabilities. It also requires certain skills in order to implement and leverage the best value of the tool.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Comprehensive capability and features, plenty of online help topics, broadly coverage standard modeling language from EA to SA and to the design level ( Archimate, UML, SysMl...) Like the best is the Dynamic Impact Analysis tool.
What do you dislike most about this product?
So far I like this products.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You and your team need a substantial architectural knowledge + company's business knowledge in order to structure a suitable metamodel and framework to leverage the maximum value of the tool.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Allan K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2021
Great Product Can be Customized For a Perfect Fit
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect from other similar products?
Customizability. It is not just a product - it's dozen's of products that can , literally, look and feel completely different to different users. You can create one diagram and it will look different for different users according to their preferences. C levels don't want to see the same things as PM or designers or coders. Wt create 5 different diagrams when one will do. It just looks different depending on the user. You can create customized concepts, elements, tools, connectors, graphical representations. The sky is the limit. It's like a custom tailored suit.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
How incredibly deep it is. I've been using it for over 15 years and I keep learning not just new features but entire new categories of capabilities without end. On top of that , new versions with new features are constantly in the pipe.
What do you dislike most about this product?
If there is one Achilles heel about Sparx EA it is related having proper access to sufficient expertise. The company does not offer major consulting services ( although independent vendors do). Of course MEGA, TROUX, BizzDesign and dozens of other competing companies don't offer million dollar consulting contracts but I don't know that is particularly better unless your company has millions of dollars to waste. On the other hand , there are around 800,000 Sparx users worldwide, so goggling a problem is highly likely to yield what you are looking for.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Think of it as a state of the art smart device. If you just use it to make phone calls you are missing out on 99% of its functionality. Investing in getting a skilled user or letting someone become a skilled user will pay for itself a million times over. Let someone leverage the hundreds of features that it offers so that a three week effort becomes a two hour effort. You will save a fortune.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing