When searching for a new modeling tool, we came across Astah Professional. We were skeptical of the features and so elected to try the free trial. Boy are we glad we did! We went ahead an purchased multiple licenses because the product does everything it says and then some! It is by far the easiest, most helpful modeling tool we've come across, and has made our diagramming much smoother and more efficient. Any questions we've had have been promptly answered by the support team, and they are always very courteous and informative. Definitely worth the price!

There is nothing that is a deal breaker for us. In terms of preference, it would be nice for operation parameters to have initial values as an option, but the type modifier works well enough for our purposes.

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

Today, when using a modeling tool, my primary concern regards the usability of the tool. If I need to model something quickly then I want to be able to get my ideas onto a canvas quickly and easily. The last thing that I want to do is to wrestle with the tool as my ideas and thoughts float away.The installability of the tool is really good as well as I never have any issues with updates/upgrades and they are always welcome as I know the vendor always adds some new feature that I didn't know that I needed.

One of my biggest complaints about Astah has been its lack of good and reliable reverse engineering, specifically with C++. Another feature that I wish was improved is the sharing of models and I don't believe that the current feature is good enough.

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

They offer a 1 year free license to students.

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

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

Adherence to UML method. Look & feel. real referential between diagrams

Some bugs on large files Search (see above) not possible to adapt models to other methods (TOGAF, BPMN...) no link between activities & lanes in activity diagrams and other UML components (actors...)

Eine der herausragenden Funktionen von Astah ist die Unterstützung für verschiedene Diagrammtypen, darunter UML, ER, Flussdiagramm und Mind Map.

Fehlt eine Beispiellibrary und die Dokumentation ist nicht sehr umfassend.