Sparx Pro Cloud Server Reviews

Firstly, we use this solution to enable collaboration among our international teams. Our applications are in the cloud, and most issues are on AWS. We have a central place to store and work on our enterprise-level architectures, regardless of where we are. Another reason was to select customer support. Our organization can also put your infrastructure directly in AWS.

There could be improvement in connecting to and securing this connection. Spark is not up to date on its Insight dashboard compared to competitors, but this impacts the digital experience. It is important for the team to continue working on this tool without disruption. So maybe this is an area for improvement to have a better Insight.

I have been using Sparx Pro Cloud Server for more than five years.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

25 users are using this solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

The customer support is responsive.

Positive

We have used Linux and ABACUS Avolution with the same architecture. Sparx Pro is the most cost-effective third-party solution for Enterprise Architect model repositories.

The vendor provides the maintenance.

We're paying 15 dollars per user per month for large teams, which is more expensive than the competition, but it has more features, such as cloud VPN and testing. There is no other cost apart from subscription.

Sparx Pro Cloud Server is also delivered as a cloud SaaS service, meaning that Sparx Systems hosts it, and users can access it over the internet compared to the hosted solution installed on the user's server.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I use Pro Cloud for just connecting my Enterprise Architect on-premise to the Prolaborate; it's a technical usage, not a functional one. What I use functionally is Prolaborate, not Pro Cloud.

We use the solution for different activities. This is for enterprise and solution architecture, so it's all about the TOGAF continuum documentation with application mapping services, objects on cities that we are manipulating internally. This is also used on projects, and I'm the project manager for a big IT transformation project. Enterprise Architect is my main repository for design. I've got all my, let's say, requirements, data entity, data transformation, and REST API documentation also there.

Why I use Pro Cloud is to use Prolaborate. To use Prolaborate, you need Pro Cloud, and Pro Cloud has a more user-friendly interface. Sharing my diagrams with a large community of people is easy, as it's user-friendly on the web. 

You can collaborate and see comments and discussions around diagrams. We have introduced Prolaborate to extend the usage within the organization. 

The solution can scale well.

We have found the technical support to be helpful.

The pricing is reasonable.

The user-friendliness could be even better. 

I've been looking at some alternative solutions, as it's very difficult to document in an Enterprise Architect model, a data model that's NoSQL. It's a very old-fashioned relational database. If you want to document a diagram, it's very good. If you are working on a relational database model it's fine for a primary key or foreign key kind of thing. That said, today we work on a NoSQL database, Triplestore, RDF, and Symantec. It's very difficult. I know that some competitors enable more NoSQL capability documentation for the objects. I know that erwin, for example, released a new version at the beginning of the year that extended the capability to document in a more efficient way a nonrational model.

I started using the solution a year ago.

The solution is very scalable. We have just under 100 users at this time. We are extending usage right now to 100 users. 

Technical support is very good. they provide excellent assistance when we need it. We are satisfied with the level of support we get. 

Initially, I joined the company a year ago and Sparx System was in place, however, we wrote Pro Cloud and Prolaborate and I was the one introducing Pro Cloud and Prolaborate.

The ramp-up in the tool is difficult to access. I'm talking about the Sparx System, not Prolaborate. It's not that user-friendly, and therefore there's a learning curve. It can be difficult for some of the people collaborating on the product.

The pricing is quite good. When it comes to functionality vs cost, the product provides a good balance. It's a quality solution and provides good value for money spent. Other options are much more expensive. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Our company uses the solution to develop roadmaps for systems. We have seven architects who focus on structural components for projects. 

The solution's most valuable feature is ArchiMate which I use daily. 

The solution should allow easier access with enhanced customization options for web page DHTML. The solution does not work well with some browsers so I have to export DHTML work for visualization. 

I have been using the solution for one year. 

The solution is stable. 

I contacted technical support for assistance with configuring the server. 

I believe their help is useful but there is a language barrier because I am not fluent in English. No Spanish language option was offered to me. 

The initial setup was complex because the server can be configured many ways and I did not have the knowledge base to make informed decisions. 

We implemented the solution in-house. 

The solution's Ultimate Plan costs $399 per year. 

The solution works well for me and I recommend it. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.