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nemethmik

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Where is the Catch?
« on: January 18, 2005, 02:27:41 pm »
Dear EA Users,

I've been evaluating EA for a week, and I found this tool unbelievably powerful. For a CASE tool with a feature set available in EA other vendors want you to pay ten or twenty times more. Where could be the catch?

Today a distributor of an expensive CASE tool told me that he never saw a major project where EA had been used as the main design tool. I'd higly appreciate your opinion and experience with EA.

I've read all documentation and tried the most important features. What I 'd need your subjective opinion about EA.

Thank you,
Miki
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2005, 04:02:32 pm »
Hi,

We have been using EA for a while now, number of our clients, typically large companies, have been using it as well and, unbelievable as it is, I hear no complaints. Users seem to love the application for variety of reasons, from its feature set, to its user friendliness, and whole range of reasons in between.
I have seen EA used on number of projects, frequently large ones (dozens of users). I have also seen EA firmly incorporated into the companies' SDLC and therefore, directly or indirectly, impacting hundreds of people. This also says something about the trust EA has earned.

Personally, I have worked with all major modeling tools, and know the major players in detail. EA is my tool of choice, and would be one even without the amazing price of it (which obviously makes the whole deal a lot better).

Now I am sounding like a televangelist, so I better stop... I think I got my message across :-)

Hope this helps!

Bruno
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2005, 01:05:42 am »
Maybe you could read a bit through this board. Do you know of any other tool where you find such positive response? Btw.: who is this distributor of an expensive case tools? He'd better go an sell flower  ;D
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2005, 01:12:04 am »
I'm the desing methologies consultant in a sfotware divition in Intel of about 200 developers with some big projects. though we are just using it for less then a year and still not in all projects I'm very pleased with it .

it works fine with large projects. it is very userfriendly in comparison with "more powerfull" tools (like rose or i-logix) and I have found nothing of importance missing in it comparing to other tools.

without a doubt - best return on inbestment in marcket.  8)
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nemethmik

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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2005, 04:10:03 am »
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Maybe you could read a bit through this board.


I'm doing my best to read all posts in this great forum.

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Do you know of any other tool where you find such positive response?


I know IBM/Rational Rose, but I have no idea how happy its users are. I liked it, but I found EA even more powerful than Rose.

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who is this distributor of an expensive case tools?

Aonix/Ameos/StP and Select

Thank you for your comments, anyway.
Miklos
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2005, 05:39:10 am »
The only area I find a little weak (and it's because the rest of the package makes your expectations so high !) is in the Requirements and Test areas (see some of my other posts using the YaBB user's last N posts link)

But for out-and-out UML, with code-round-trip, it really is top-notch value for money, gaining improvements all the time, and with a very active Forum here.
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2005, 05:15:53 am »
Been using EA for 2.5 years and have found it provide excellent value for money. It has its fair share of annoyances but so do all products. Basically there's no need to spend huge sums of money on overrated product just 'cause they have larger names in the industry. If the subject comes up I always recommend EA and thus far everyone has been immensely impressed.

Good luck
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2005, 05:35:13 am »
We worked with Rose for long time (and still do in some porjects) but we will not renew contract with them for now. The cost of it 50 times higher without giving 50 times return on it and rational has a very bad costumer service.
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Re: Where is the Catch?
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2005, 09:41:16 pm »
Same excellent impression here, I also used a couple of Modelling tools and evaluated a couple of more. Performance is an extremely pleasant surprise with EA when comparing with something like Rose. (Price as well, of course)
As a beginner in this tool one  area where I am still exploring  is scalability for massive source code.  Importing/Exporting something like Java JDK source code results in very large xml files.

Stefan
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