Astah Professional Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

Lucidchart

OutSystems

Jira

Enterprise Architect

Cacoo

erwin Data Modeler

Astah Professional is a design tool that helps users create project documentation. Users can create UML diagrams, ERD, DFD, flowcharts, CRUD, requirement diagrams, and mind maps.

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Linux

Windows

Associate Professor

Some of the labeling on the different components in the diagram is confusing.

Professor

There are free student licenses which help using course-based materials for teaching software engineering. The interface is intuitive and easy to use.

Architect

My overall experience with Astah has been very good over the years and I will continue to use the tool in coming years.

Director

It has already helped me to secure a substantial contract.

Principal Systems Engineer

The colorful and easy to create UML diagrams, especially the sequence diagrams, convey detailed information in a very effective way.

Manager, App Dev

Still lack reverse engineering from DDL scripts.

Not possible to adapt models to other methods (TOGAF, BPMN...). No link between activities & lanes in activity diagrams and other UML components (actors...).

IBM Cognos Analytics

Delivered great value project after project during initial DB design and process/data flow modeling for scope and boundary definition. 

CASE tool Forward Emgineering Value 

My experience has been great and I plan to keep using Astah throughout my development career as a software Engineer.

If you enjoy UML Diagramming, you won't regret using Astah!

I am using it for quick UML model development for which is works perfect.


Initial review

Amazing modeling tool!

A decent tool for the money and has all the various UML diagrams.

Good for teaching

Astah for Education

Thank you for your feedback. We're glad the free student licenses and intuitive interface meet your needs in teaching software engineering.

For managing information display in larger diagrams, you might find the visibility settings useful. These can be adjusted per project in [Tools] → [System Properties] → [Initial Visibility], or for individual diagrams via the [Initial Visibility] tab in the left-bottom pane.

Very good. I work nearly full day with Astah since the creation of Jude

Astah pro review

I use Astah for use case and sequence diagrams for the most part.  Both of these diagrams should be imported into Astah from spreadsheets, but that powerful import facility does not exist.

Astah Professional is outstanding

Thank you for your feedback!

You may already know this but you can create objects and attributes by pasting texts from Clipboard. (Not relationships though.)
https://astah.net/support/astah-pro/user-guide/diagram-editor/#from-clipboard

In your case, 
You can copy all the texts that will become Lifeline names in the spreadsheet, then paste them on the Sequence diagram. Then you will have all the Lifelines at once.

Or,
1. Create a Class diagram, copy texts to clipboard that will become Class names.
2. Paste them on Class diagram, then you will have all the Classes with the pasted text as their names.
3. Copy texts to clipboard that will become their attributes/operations.
4. Select a Class on the diagram that you want to add  attributes/operations, then paste the copied text
5. Now Attributes/Operations will be added to the Class
6. Create a Sequence diagram, drag all the Classes from the tree to the Sequence diagram
7. Now you will have Lifelines with dragged Classes as base classes.

The best software to create UML diagrams

I have grown to rely on it heavily, both when working out a complex software or database structure and when explaining it to others.When I recently left a situation where I was employed to re-start my own consultancy business, Astah was one of the first products I decided to buy on my own account. It has already helped me to secure a substantial contract.

An asset at many levels

Why Astah after all these other modeling tools?

O software funciona muito bem em sistemal operacionais Linux, ele é fácil de usar.

Excelente software para modelagem UML

Excellent software for UML modeling

チームで統一的な書き方

Standardized writing style for the team

Ein vielseitiges und intuitives Diagrammwerkzeug

A versatile and intuitive diagramming tool

Das meiste gut, eine Schlüsselfunktion fehlt

Most of it is good, one key function is missing

Facilitou muito na organização dos processos da empresa, pois é muito fácil e rápido de entender e trabalhar com esta ferramenta.

Simplicidade

Simplicity

buen soporte compras y tecnico

good purchasing and technical support

直感的に使用可能なモデリングツール

Intuitive modeling tools

Übersichtliches Tool welches unsere Bedürfnisse (UML State Machines) sehr gut bedient.

Gutes UML State Machine Tool

Good UML State Machine Tool

設計書の標準化にツールを一本化

Unification of tools for standardization of design documents

仕事の都合でOSS (Open Source Software)であるモデリングツールを探すことがよくありますが，機能と使いやすさから結局astahに戻ってきてしまいます．多くの人に使ってもらう機会があるときに，導入もしやすく，使い勝手の良さから他の選択肢がありません．そう思えるだけの優れた使いやすさを提供してくれています．商用ですので仕方が無いと思いますが，開発したプラグイン等を無料で多くの人が使えるような環境整備をしてくれると有り難いと感じます．

使いやすいモデリングツール

Easy-to-use modeling tools

マインドマップによる議事録と課題の整理。クラス図によるデータ定義。

軽快なモデリングを望むなら最適なツール

The perfect tool if you want light modeling

umlやer図、ロバストネス分析など、システム開発におけるモデリングをシームレスに統合して行えるとても有意義なツール。これほど幅広い記法に対応しながら、使いやすいモデリングツールを他に知らない。自分は学習者向けに利用しているが、モデリングツールとしては使いやすいので初学者でも取り組みやすい。

初学者でも使いやすいモデリング学習ツール

Easy-to-use modeling learning tool for beginners

プログラムの設計で自分の考えをまとめるだけでなく、チームメンバーにすばやく理解していただくのに大変役立っています。ライセンス管理の大変さはありますが、それ以上にとても大きな開発効率アップの効果が得られました。

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