Product(s): ABACUS
Overall Comment:"Abacus is excellent when you need to tailor framework (TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN, custom models), you can easily extend attributes, relationships, taxonomies, and dashboards."
three things that work well for our team: 1. Very flexible Modeling & Meta-model customization ready. This flexibility allowed our team to align the tool exactly to their organization's architecture standards. 2. Strong visualization & Road mapping tools. The tool generates clean, interactive visuals: system maps, heatmaps, dependency graphs, data lineage, capability maps, etc. 3. Good collaboration & governance workflows: We are leveraging Abacus cloud versioning, role-based editing, and shared dashboards. Multiple team members work on the same repository without conflict.
These are three things that did not work so well for our team: 1. Steep learning curve & non-intuitive UI: new users often find the interface cluttered and not very intuitive. 2. Performance issues with large models: with large repositories or multi-team environments, the tool can become slower 3. Integrations are bit limited or require effort: out-of-the-box connectors (ServiceNow, Jira, CMDBs, cloud, discovery tools, etc.)