We've been asked by several customers to describe the differences between the function available in Sparx EA Office integration vs eaDocX. So here is a short guide to what makes eaDocX different:
We have worked hard to make it easy for eaDocX users to tailor their documents. We do this by only presenting you with the elements, connectors, stereotypes, attributes and TVs that are in your model rather than the Sparx approach of giving you a list of everything that might be there. And eaDocX lets you tailor and print 99% of the documents you need without the need for scripting or writing code.
We don't just let you save your document in a Word format. Because Word is embedded inside EA, eaDocX lets you use all the features of Word, the text and table styles formatting, the Word Quick Parts, the fonts and logos... So it's easy to make your generated documents look like every other 'hand crafted' document that your business expects.
For example:
Yes eaDocX and Sparx EA both do that.
Sparx has recently added extra features to copy the Excel import / export capability that eaDocX has provided for many years. However their solution works at element level only, whereas eaDocX allows manipulation of elements, attributes and operations between EA and Excel using the import/export functions of eaXL. eaDocX also then provides the option to embed EA data exported to Excel into Word documents by defining worksheet ranges and charts.
Yep, we'll 'fess up to not doing this at all. That's because we focus on making our Word and Excel integrations the best they can be... making eaDocX your in-house document expert.
eaDocX Collaboration edition has this one all to itself. The ability to publish Word documents (we like to think of them as curated views of your model) to the web, to allow contributions from the widest business audience and to have those contributions saved inside your model with full traceability. Enabling stakeholder engagement, improved model quality and accelerated project approvals. Delivering fully integrated EA collaboration on any web-enabled device.
Finally, one of our Partners (thank you Guillaume) has produced this comparison diagram which summarises the differences between eaDocX Corporate Edition and the other available EA features. But note, it doesn't show Collaboration features.