Enterprise Architecture (EA) Tools Reviews and Ratings

Trainers are knowledgeable on the iServer product and are able to field next to any question posed on training courses. iServer is fairly easy to navigate through once you have been given a basic idea on what is what and where is where. Service Desk respond within SLA as well as there being a comprehensive knowledge base available for users. The only minor negative I can find with the vendor is their license model is fairly restrictive, with only two types - viewer and author (although RBAC on Author means it can be customized). a third medium level license which incorporates Visio would be great. would rate 4.5 out of 5 but .5 isn't allowed.

A tool that first and foremost focuses on the value and insights for the end user of architecture information. Instead of relying on the EA's to make periodic updates to viewpoints, there is a very strong set of out-of-the-box reports that are generated on live repository data on demand. More reports are available from the online store. Very powerful selection parameters and filters lets end users see exactly what they need as self-service, no EA interaction needed. The specific report can be saved by the user and shared with other as a live link. The custom drawing/diagramming/modelling capabilities are now fully developed, by integrating draw.io. Other tools focus very much on the needs of the EA team, who want to make pretty diagrams and colorful viewpoints, but then lack on the output wanted by the end users/consumers. Depending on how clean data you have going into your implementation, you can get end-user value from LeanIX in a few weeks.

It is a functional and dynamic tool that allows me to identify the impacts between business processes and applications, risks, controls, IT, etc. I really like the metamodel of the tool, it is very flexible and adaptable to the needs of each organization.

Enterprise Studio is an excellent modelling tool, that enable all the dimensions of you enterprise to be linked, this enables you to create dynamic diagrams for key areas' with actionable insights.

SPARX is a great tool to use as the typical Reference Library for an EA implementation. I evaluated a number of products before landing on this one. They are the most extensible, and assisted us in migrating our old Rational Software Architect and Rational system architect drawings into SPARX in exactly 2 weeks. Over 1000 diagrams were successfully migrated - hands free - with their ModelFlow application. Additionally, it has all the features we were eager to get - User based role protection, diagramming, dramatic extensibility, and the ability to configure the SPARX library to hold any attribution we desired with all aspects of the data management - from Capabilities, to Vendors to Applications. Additionally, since it's a relational database, we were able to link it up with Tableau and create great reports for our business partners day 1. We have used it for the past 5 years and just entered into a new 5 year contract.

My overall experience with ADOIT has been positive for several years now. The product is used as part of a university course on Enterprise Architecture (EA) that I took as a student and later taught as a lecturer. This year, I will teach the course for the third time. The deployment objective of the product was to provide a tool for modeling interconnected enterprise architectures, including visualizations and analyses. ADOIT helped in achieving this goal by being easy to use while still providing all the necessary capabilities and functionalities for EA modeling. Over the years, useful features were added to ADOIT, which improved the ease of use even more. Especially the newly added AWS modeling features were appreciated by the students and opened up further possibilities to refine task specifications. In terms of support, ADOIT has been excellent for the last three years. We are provided with an administrative license in advance, which also includes already established student group accesses according to the students registered for the course. No technical issues have come up since I teach this course. Additional help was rarely needed, but if it was, a corresponding solution was always provided timely. For example, I was interested in the new AWS modeling features of ADOIT and send a corresponding request to the support. As a result, we were provided with the AWS modeling features for the upcoming semester. In summary, my experience with ADOIT has been positive, and I found the product to be an effective tool for teaching enterprise architecture modeling. The support and service provided by ADOIT were excellent. Newly added features also improved students' satisfaction with the tool.

A very powerful, yet easy to use documentation solution that is incredibly flexible. Ardoq has the ability to model pretty much everything, being a flexible graph database, but with a lot of out-of-the-box templates for everything Enterprise Architecture. With the introduction of the discover module we've also enabled the democratization of our architectural documentation. Now with a lot of predefined visualizations and easy-to-use interface Ardoq har finally taken the next step for us. The main tool is just as flexible and powerful to use for administration, but the level of entry is quite high, so training is needed for administration, but now everyone can get the insights from the models without having to fear for changing documentation inadvertantly. The newer license models also enables us to open up our documentation for the entire enterprise and not artificially limit access. The greatest strength of Ardoq: The flexibility - you can pretty much model whatever you want and get great visualizations The greatest weaknewss of Ardoq: The flexibility - it's easy to get lost within the user interface and there is a definate level of entry. However, this goes for most EA tools. Just be careful on what you document - and how. A great tool that can easily be highly recommended

From a selection process with other top players, they scored best. After selection the implementation was smooth, and more useful features discovered when using Blue Dolphin since then. Various questions were rapidly responded to by the excellent support desk

Abacus is incredibly powerful and extensible. The custom branding available for the Enterprise portal (customer portal) is a great new addition. I am proud to present this product to my customers.

erwin Evolve support us with strategy and business process, it helps us to manage organizational change and increase our operation efficiency. It has improved our performance and lowered the risks. The dashboard view is amazing, it provides variety of data which helps us to get actionable insights faster. It helps in generating and scheduling the reports. Since we are using it we are able to improve our business and operating models with the help of its analytics.

We've been using Alfabet for just over two years. As an EA team of one, and new to the discipline, I needed a tool that was easy enough to get going with, but flexible enough to adapt to our growing needs. The support has been excellent. They are very knowledgeable about EA in general, and not just the ins and outs of the tool. Combined, this has really helped develop and mature our approach to EA.

We have been using this product form past 1 year in our organization and this helps in creating visibility and provide better decision making by finding issue, estimating performance and ability to create metrics. It helps to create the optimize portfolio by analysing the past scenarios. Its capabilities of tracking the cost and budgeting really helps in organization growth.

Excellent support and handholding as we roll out the product.

EAS has a robust metadata repository that can cover multiple dimensions of the architecture. Their innovation with the new framework for creating our own editors, changes in the views to keep it modern and visual, and adding dynamic queries to extract the data easily are compelling product evolution. Also, the look and feel are very appealing, with easy-to-navigate reports. In my company we are using this tool extensively to document our technology and application landscape, and creating the mapping with business capabilities, application categories, technology classification, and suppliers, including the cost dimension, which is giving us a different perspective for our application rationalization and cost optimization: By understanding how much we are investing by business capability, what are redundancies in the type of applications, or how we are leveraging key vendors.

Both the vendor and the product itself are also helping us in development / design and operations also.

It has been an excellent tool to administer. The Catalog Manager, Encyclopedia Manager and System Architect tools are wonderful.

Dragon1 is one of the best online platforms which enables an individual or organizations to perform enterprise transformation through an online platform. Also, the UI is quite unique (compared to similar solutions available) and it gives a visual and effective way, to adapt constantly to new technologies. It is trusted by many brands globally as an enterprise architecture management solution. It helps you reshape the organization into a digital ecosystem.

When we come to choosing enterprise architect solution, there are so many option software's in the market and finding the right solution might a tedious process. In my our case we find QPR Enterprise to be the best fit as it is resourceful, appealing for viewer and highly interactive for users.

Ins-Pi worked very closely with us for our design and implementation of the EAM tool, and provided invaluable support and advice for configuration and modelling. Since implementation we have been in regular contact, and any issues that we might have are dealt with quickly and efficently. In addition their strong customer focus means that the product roadmap is driven by customer need, and the products are continuously improving based on the feedback from us and other companies.

The Bee4IT EA module does fit to Heidelbergs needs. It helped us to provide transparency about the entire IT landscape from business architecture (value chains) to IT architecture (interfaces and servers). It also supports technology management. Main benefit is the close integration to project portfolio management and supplier management. It comes with a sound template for core EA processes but is very easy extensible.