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The Essential Project, from EAS vs. IBM Rational System Architect Designer

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ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
The Essential Project, from EAS
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Enterprise Architecture Solutions headquartered in London are the founder of the Essential Project, a an Enterprise Architecture Management Tool. Essential has been developed based on their expertise as an EA Consultancy and is, therefore, built by architects for architects. Essential Cloud is a cloud deployment is our premier product offering all the benefits of Essential Open Source plus additional features that leverage cloud architecture. It is hosted in AWS, in either the EU, US or AU.…
$17,000
per year
IBM Rational System Architect Designer
Score 6.2 out of 10
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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
Pricing
The Essential Project, from EASIBM Rational System Architect Designer
Editions & Modules
Essential Cloud
$17000
per year
Essential Docker
$19,900
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
The Essential Project, from EASIBM Rational System Architect Designer
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
The Essential Project, from EASIBM Rational System Architect Designer
Likelihood to Recommend
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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.
Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Miguel Angel Merino Vega
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Pros
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  • MS Office exporting
  • UML modeling
  • Transformation to code
  • A reverse transformation from code
  • Integrates with other IBM products
Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Analista de Sistemas
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Cons
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  • 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
Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Miguel Angel Merino Vega
Analista de Sistemas
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Alternatives Considered
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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.
Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Miguel Angel Merino Vega
Analista de Sistemas
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Return on Investment
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  • Clients like good modeling. A good diagram reduce costs in incidents and doubts of bad interpretations
  • Reduce costs of recognition of old software.
Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Miguel Angel Merino Vega
Analista de Sistemas
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