Avolution

Avolution Abacus

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

7.9 /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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3 Top Rated Features

2022

Avolution Abacus Ratings

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89 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

7
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 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?

3% Negative

5% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Efficient Service
Acts with Integrity
Trustworthy
Includes Product Enhancements

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Performance Management

Process Architecture

Data Visualization GIS

Repository Management

Analytics and Reporting

Software Distribution

PCI and EMV Compatible

Risk and Fraud Assessment

Project Management

Collaboration

Document Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Avolution Abacus Reviews

Ch B.

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

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Submitted May 2025

Powerful and Flexible, But Takes Time to Learn

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Avolution Abacus from other similar products?

Avolution Abacus stands out for its flexibility, advanced analytics, collaboration tools, and strong integration features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its flexibility and ease of integration with other tools.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It can be complex for new users.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Start with small projects to learn the tool, and use tutorials to get comfortable with its features.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Serge B.

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

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Verified Reviewer

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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Verified Reviewer

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

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Awards & Recognition

Avolution Abacus Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

7 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Ch B.

Powerful and Flexible, But Takes Time to Learn

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Serge B.

Fantacstic product, can meet any EA need !

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mark B.

Excellent product for the price

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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