Enterprise Architecture
Top Essential Alternatives and Competitors

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Essential (former The Essential Project) Enterprise Architecture tool helps you to understand how the people, functions, processes, IT applications, data, infrastructure, suppliers, and customers interact across the business. Essential enables you to spot opportunities to improve and to assess the impacts of planned changes to the operating model. Engage your CxOs and the business in your Enterprise Architecture through Essential's beautiful and interactive visualisations of your organisation.

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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Essential

Compare how Essential stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Orbus Software

OrbusInfinity

8.6

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+90

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Compared to Essential, OrbusInfinity is:

More Innovative

Better at Training

More Caring

Better at Support

Better at Integrating

Harder to Customize

Bizzdesign

Bizzdesign Hopex

8.5

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+94

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90

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Compared to Essential, Bizzdesign Hopex is:

Better at Integrating

More Innovative

Better at Training

More Inspiring

Better at Support

Easier to Use

Ardoq Inc.

Ardoq

8.2

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+85

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58

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Compared to Essential, Ardoq is:

More Innovative

Less Transparent

Harder to Customize

Worse at Support

Harder to Use

Harder to Implement

QualiWare

QualiWare Enterprise Architect

8.2

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+88

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45

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Compared to Essential, QualiWare Enterprise Architect is:

More Innovative

Better at Training

Harder to Implement

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Harder to Customize

Avolution

ABACUS

8.2

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+90

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35

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Compared to Essential, ABACUS is:

Better at Support

Better at Integrating

Better at Training

More Inspiring

Easier to Use

Harder to Customize

BlueDolphin

BlueDolphin

7.8

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+84

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38

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Compared to Essential, BlueDolphin is:

Easier to Use

Harder to Customize

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Less Caring

Harder to Implement

Bizzdesign

Bizzdesign Alfabet

7.8

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+85

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27

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Compared to Essential, Bizzdesign Alfabet is:

Better at Training

More Innovative

Better at Integrating

Less Caring

Harder to Use

Less Respectful

SAP America, Inc.

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

7.8

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+87

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37

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Compared to Essential, LeanIX Enterprise Architecture is:

More Innovative

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Harder to Customize

Less Caring

Worse at Support

Atoll Technologies Plc

SAMU

7.6

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+87

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31

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Compared to Essential, SAMU is:

More Innovative

More Efficient

Better at Training

Better at Integrating

Less Reliable

Less Transparent

Bizzdesign

Bizzdesign Horizzon

7.3

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+70

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38

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Compared to Essential, Bizzdesign Horizzon is:

Less Reliable

Less Transparent

Less Caring

Less Inspiring

Less Innovative

Harder to Customize

Sparx Systems Pty Ltd

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

7.1

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+82

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26

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Compared to Essential, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is:

Less Inspiring

Less Innovative

Harder to Customize

Less Reliable

Worse at Support

Worse at Integrating

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