Avolution

Avolution Abacus

Composite Score

7.3 /10

CX Score

7.3 /10

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What is Avolution Abacus?

A leading tool for modeling and roadmapping. ABACUS supports collaborative enterprise architecture and connects your IT and business strategy. Cloud-based data and dashboards streamline global collaboration and remote working. ABACUS helps architects to lighten their data workload and to motivate stakeholders to set priorities and take action.   Data owners can access and update their own data with user-friendly browser-based lists and personalised dashboards and reports (roadmaps, charts, models and KPIs) .

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Awards & Recognition

Avolution Abacus won the following awards in the Enterprise Architecture category

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3 Top Rated Features

2024

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2023

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2022

Avolution Abacus Ratings

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87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+86 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Avolution Abacus?

4% Negative

8% Neutral

88% Positive

Pros

Efficient Service
Acts with Integrity
Trustworthy
Includes Product Enhancements

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Process Architecture

Software Distribution

Data Visualization GIS

Repository Management

Performance Management

Analytics and Reporting

Collaboration

PCI and EMV Compatible

Risk and Fraud Assessment

Project Management

Document Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Avolution Abacus Reviews

Serge B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Dec 2024

Fantacstic product, can meet any EA need !

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Avolution Abacus from other similar products?

Ease of use and the ability to choose the methodology used to define your processes

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

How easily it can be configured to meet your organizational needs

What do you dislike most about this product?

The remote desktop connectivity required to connect to the client, not a true web based interface.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Give it a serious thought as it can address any Enterprise Architecture need following any of the established methodologies.

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Efficient Service
Effective Service

Mark B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Dec 2024

Excellent product for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Avolution Abacus from other similar products?

The ability to enter data via sheet form or diagram, graph traceability is excellent, roundtrips via excel.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Traceability views in sheet or matrix form

What do you dislike most about this product?

Abacus is prioritizing transitioning functionality of product to web client (Enterprise) from client-server (Studio). Studio is still very important and doesn't get the backlog priority like enterprise.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely trial the product before purchasing, and have some clear use cases to test.

Pros

Includes Product Enhancements
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Vignesh S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted May 2025

Smart, Flexible & Scalable EA Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Avolution Abacus from other similar products?

Avolution Abacus differentiates itself from other enterprise architecture tools through its strong emphasis on flexibility, modeling, and analytics. It supports a wide range of frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, and BPMN, while also allowing users to customize or create their own. Unlike many competitors, Abacus enables drag-and-drop modeling with real-time collaboration and integrates seamlessly with tools like MS Excel, Visio, and ServiceNow. Its powerful analytics engine supports advanced simulations, impact analysis, and decision-making through dashboards and visualizations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Avolution Abacus is its flexibility and integration capabilities. It allows users to easily customize frameworks, import data from familiar tools like Excel and Visio, and integrate with enterprise systems such as ServiceNow and SharePoint. This makes it incredibly user-friendly and adaptable to different organizational needs without requiring a steep learning curve or extensive rework of existing assets.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to Dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you're considering Avolution Abacus, it's important to start by clearly defining your enterprise architecture goals, such as improving IT efficiency, supporting digital transformation, or ensuring compliance. One of the strengths of Abacus lies in its ability to integrate with tools like Excel, Visio, and ServiceNow, so taking full advantage of these integrations can greatly streamline your data management and modeling processes. Starting with a small pilot project can help you get familiar with its interface and capabilities without being overwhelmed.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Avolution Abacus Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

3 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Avolution Abacus?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Process Architecture Includes business process, policy, procedure, and project reviews.

Software Distribution Includes electronic data interchange, document management, and financial reporting and analysis.

Data Visualization GIS Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Repository Management Includes storage, access control, and locking of files.

Performance Management Includes all aspects of performance appraisals and review design: rollout, conducting, tracking, measurement, and goal attainment.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

PCI and EMV Compatible Includes system monitoring, remote access control, security alarms, and sensors.

Risk and Fraud Assessment Includes the ability to document, mitigate, and respond to project risk conditions across the portfolio and detect instances of potential fraudulent claims.

Project Management Includes support for elements of individual project management such as phase, task, resource, duration and budget, with Gantt and WBS views.

Document Management Includes features such as check-in/check-out and versioning controls on documents and artifacts.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Avolution Abacus Reviews

Serge B.

Fantacstic product, can meet any EA need !

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mark B.

Excellent product for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vignesh S.

Smart, Flexible & Scalable EA Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

3
Since last award

Feature Ratings

Process Architecture

Software Distribution

Data Visualization GIS

Repository Management

Performance Management

Analytics and Reporting

Collaboration

PCI and EMV Compatible

Risk and Fraud Assessment

Project Management

Document Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness