Avolution ABACUS vs. IBM Rational System Architect Designer

Avolution ABACUS

Avolution ABACUS

6 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Rational System Architect Designer

IBM Rational System Architect Designer

7 Reviews and Ratings

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Avolution ABACUS	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	ABACUS, from Australian software company Avolution, is an enterprise architecture modeling tool.	N/A
IBM Rational System Architect Designer	Score 6.2 out of 10	N/A	IBM Rational System Architect is an enterprise architecture management platform, that enables the use of abstraction to preserve design intents and tribal memory, and to provide auditable evidence of conformance to policies.	N/A

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	Avolution ABACUS	IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Considered Both Products	Avolution ABACUS Darin Paton Chose Avolution ABACUS - Microsoft tools are manual and data is not centralized - Aris is not as flexible as Avolution - LeanIX is close, but lacks business content/accelerators that Avolution provides - LeanIX is in the cloud and multi-user Incentivized Helpful? Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng Enterprise Architect Chose Avolution ABACUS More flexible and user friendly interface. Better customization enables organisations to grow based on their maturity and requirements Avolution is highly rated on Gartner and Forrester reviews Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Rational System Architect Designer Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Chose IBM Rational System Architect Designer If you have a budget or the need for a complex modeler or need diagram transformation to code or vice-versa, IBM Rational System Architect is the way to go. If you need few diagrams or don't need the complexity or don't have a budget, Bizagi or Star UML get the things done. Incentivized Helpful?

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	Avolution ABACUS	IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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	Avolution ABACUS	IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Likelihood to Recommend	- Very easy to use for Enterprise Architects - Accelerates time to value - integrates with Avolution Enterprise - Integrates with ITSM solutions - import/export functionality is simple & flexible Incentivized Darin Paton Read full review	If you need a whole infrastructure and architect view, IBM Rational System Architect is the way to go. If you need a single diagram or your business process is young enough to support hard documenting, you are fine with an open source tool. Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Pros	Modelling the Enterprise through the creation of catalogues and matrices of Enterprise information Creation of views to supports strategy execution and decision making Central storage of Enterprise information Management of a agreed meta model Incentivized Darin Paton Read full review	MS Office exporting UML modeling Transformation to code A reverse transformation from code Integrates with other IBM products Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Cons	More standard connectors for integration with other modeling tools could be beneficial for companies having legacy tools/fragmented toolsets. Better automated diagramming features would be useful. Incentivized Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng Enterprise Architect Read full review	Always has a price. And IBM is not cheap Sequence diagrams can get messy (still has a good UI) Only support few databases as backend repositories like SQL Server and Oracle Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Support Rating	Highly knowledgable team and fast response times Incentivized Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng Enterprise Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	More flexible and user friendly interface. Better customization enables organisations to grow based on their maturity and requirements Avolution is highly rated on Gartner and Forrester reviews Incentivized Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng Enterprise Architect Read full review	If you have a budget or the need for a complex modeler or need diagram transformation to code or vice-versa, IBM Rational System Architect is the way to go. If you need few diagrams or don't need the complexity or don't have a budget, Bizagi or Star UML get the things done. Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
Return on Investment	Enabled rationalization of IT portfolio to save costs Supporting of strategic planning of EA and IT initiatives Incentivized Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng Enterprise Architect Read full review	Clients like good modeling. A good diagram reduce costs in incidents and doubts of bad interpretations Reduce costs of recognition of old software. Incentivized Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Read full review
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