Anyone using SPARX EA Tool and Prolaborate for EA: can you share about your journey and how long have you been using this tool? Are you happy with the visualization?
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Information Security Manager in Software2 months ago
I'm using Archimate and i think it's sufficiant to produce architectures views and follow Togaf cycle, Sparx EA do the same job and has useful functionnalies to deal with granularity and complexity, in addition to that you can easilly ingrate it with other tools like Jira or Jama to ensure requirement's traceability, there is also other intresting functionnalities to measure effort (Cocomo method, Ifpug, Cosmic..) . the price of the licence depends on those options. Hope those informations will be helpfulEnterprise Architect in Finance (non-banking)2 months ago
We are using Sparx EA tool, but not Prolaborate. It's journey has been... fascinating. I enjoy the features and repository-based work (as we come from the standalone Archi tool), but we've been having a lot of challenges on performance, collaboration implications (people messing about where you hoped they wouldn't), lack of versioning, etc. However, I do have the impression that a lot has to do with rules and guidelines that we're still missing internally. The tool's been 'thrown at us' a bit more than I'd hoped.Visualization is a bit worse than what I've known from Archi tool, mostly because the tool is rather white-space hungry on the drawings. However, we've learned that we can update the visualizations through so-called MDGs which can make this much, much better. It's something we'll hope to get by end of the year.