Enterprise Architect

Vital tool for the development of documentation and uml

Vorteile:

Excellent tool for modeling BPM, SOA projects, use cases, activity diagrams and other UML diagrams. Vital in any organization of medium or large size. The consumption of resources is acceptable, you can export the documents to many formats.

Nachteile:

The price of the product is somewhat expensive or at least it does not have a free version for small entrepreneurs and individuals. Forcing people to lower cracks and change the time of the machine to take advantage of this very good tool

Very powerful solution for complex modelling environment

Kommentare: After the initial learning curve EA is a joy to work with. The application runs smooth, is very stable and in case of need Sparx Systems offers good support.
The extensive feature set and possibilities for customisation is really remarkable and make Sparx Enterprise Architect a joy to work with.

Vorteile:

EA looks good and is extremely powerful. I discover new way of working on a regular basis. The product is also developed at a rapid pace where customer input is really taken into consideration.

Nachteile:

I didn't like the steep learning curve. I have worked with other modeling tools in which I could start faster.

Swiss army knife for model based engineering

Kommentare: Getting fluent in EA took a while. I started with ultra simple models. This helpt me in following all the traces between the requirements and the diagrams.

Vorteile:

Download and licencing of the software is simple and convenient. If you are a single user and want to experiment and educate yourself in model based engineering and SysML-modelling, Enterprise Architect (EA) is the right start for you. EA supports many standard notations such as BPMN, UML and SysML.

Nachteile:

There is no strict guidance that leads through the project. So, you should have an idea of what you want to model and how you want to represent the features of your system of interest.

One of the worst product

Kommentare: If there is a half star rating I will give that to this tool and salesrep\trainer.

Vorteile:

- Cheap but what is the use if we can't even use it

Nachteile:

- Very difficult to use - No Support - Salesrep once sold the product brought in a trainer who was very rude . This is the name of the trainer - [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] , be very careful before committing to the training offered by this guy. They don't even cover database modelling as part of the training. - Documentation is a mess - These guys are out there to sell the consulting services and not the tool itself, so be very careful before making the decision to buy the tool. You won't be able to use the tool and these guys will try to sell the consulting hours to you.

Great product

Kommentare: The best part of enterprise architect is the ease of use. I am guy who likes using shortcuts a lot when dealing with UML models and this tool fits the bill. With the available UI options, I can also conveniently present models to the SMEs within the tool itself. The makers seem to do a good job keeping up with the changing UML standards. That makes this tool reliable and accurate.

Vorteile:

I like how easy it is to use this software to create different diagrams.

Nachteile:

Customer support could have been better.