Bizzdesign Horizzon

BiZZdesign HoriZZon  is primarily used as a repository for Enterprise Architecture and is also utilized in broad portfolio management including project management and other applications, but the main focus is on implementing the EA and running the ADM using the tool.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon  stands out from other solutions on the market due to its uniqueness in conformance with the standard. Once the standard has been updated, this tool is the first to follow up or commit to the new standard. BiZZdesign HoriZZon is ranked on top in conformance, while iServer  follows that, but in terms of integration, iServer  can fulfill the requirement for any company requiring implementation faster and with a significant amount of cost reduction because it is easy to integrate from built-in capabilities.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon's visual technologies and visual techniques help organizations make data-driven decisions by providing the required views for key stakeholders, including heat maps, road maps, project implementation, and other visualizations. With smooth integration, operational data can be integrated with the design or architecture, allowing managers, CIOs, and other operational managers in IT to see how their design performs in real-life operations. This can be viewed on the dashboard, but it requires an enormous amount of effort to integrate operational data and IT service management data into the EA repository.

The ArchiMate modeling language features with BiZZdesign HoriZZon help in representing complex architectures, as it cannot simplify to a certain extent. It is not meant to provide a detailed design specification in the way that UML does. Instead, it provides a high-level design guideline and ensures that different key stakeholders can understand what will be done in terms of changing the architecture or building a new system and defining the target architecture.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon needs to publish its integration scenarios and integration points with other digital transformation tools such as IT service management, risk management, asset management, customer service, and ERP . The company should first build the scenario and define its integration points in business and technology to make customers more confident about having a complete solution. Currently, there is a challenge with the company to offer transparent and documented integration. They offer five integration points at a fixed price, but other things come at additional costs. However, specific information about what those additional items are, what the scenarios entail, what the schemas are, what the workflows include, and what the application integration involves is not provided. The learning portal does not include integration documentation at a high level or in detail. The portal does have comprehensive resources explaining how to make their website, how to create dashboards, and how to publish EA content, which are clear. The high-end tool on the laptop is also explained in detail, covering elements, relations, and everything as standard.

I have been familiar with BiZZdesign HoriZZon for three years and have been working with it for three years.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon's technical support has presented challenges, as extra fees are required and the process is not straightforward. In terms of pricing practices, many cases have been observed where prices outside the region are less than what is offered here. Based on experience with support and related factors, I cannot give more than a seven; it is an average rating and not something that is truly satisfactory.

I do not participate in the implementation personally in the deployment process as a solution architect, but rather as an Enterprise Architecture lead, providing requirements to the solution architect and technical team for deployment. Approximately five people from my side take part in the deployment process.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon's reporting and dashboard functionalities are good and very good; they compete well with other solutions and are simpler, but they have scripting and programming tools to produce the reports needed.

The impact of BiZZdesign HoriZZon's scenario simulation on risk management strategies is that this tool is very useful. It can help in analyzing and reducing risk and optimizing processes.

Regarding licensing costs, there is dissatisfaction. The price is very high.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon's collaboration capabilities align stakeholders in the organization, as collaboration needs integration. Integration is weak, but collaboration is present in terms of building views for different stakeholders and facilitating communication between different levels of concerns among people across knowledge, fields, and domains. ArchiMate exists for this reason, and BiZZdesign HoriZZon is effective in this collaboration by presenting the right views for the targeted concerned people and stakeholders.

From experience, the deployment process for BiZZdesign HoriZZon takes on average one month for complete commissioning, with one week for implementation, but gathering information may require more time. I give this product an overall rating of eight out of ten.

The typical use case with BiZZdesign HoriZZon  is basically for enterprise architecture and also for business process modeling.

The most valuable features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon  include the diagrammatic representation of BPMN models, which I find good for modeling, and things such as capability maps. It allows for collaboration as if I work on something, someone else can pick up on it too.

Regarding ROI from BiZZdesign HoriZZon, it does what it's supposed to do, mapping capabilities and interacting with users effectively. The benefits are present in the tool, but it's also about user adoption within the company.

There is room for improvement in BiZZdesign HoriZZon. It's quite robust and has good online forums where people discuss it, though maybe the interface can improve, but I don't want to criticize it since I don't have comparisons of other tools. It takes a long time to learn and understand, which is a learning curve you have to go through, but once you know how it works, it's very nice to work with.

My experience with BiZZdesign HoriZZon spans approximately three to four years.

The stability of BiZZdesign HoriZZon rates at a 9 since it's very stable, although we haven't really strained it under very large landscapes that might test big designs.

The scalability of BiZZdesign HoriZZon rates quite highly at a 9 if not a 10, as for our use case with a small team, it was sufficient usage and any additional resources would find it easier to use.

The technical support from the vendor of BiZZdesign HoriZZon has extensive documentation, and I rate it a 9 because we had substantial initial guidance and online forums where people discuss it.

The initial setup of BiZZdesign HoriZZon was straightforward for me because when we got it, it was already set up. I wasn't involved in that portion, and all I had to do was get access and start to work on the tool itself. Once you start using it, you have to really know what you want to achieve, but it's quite a very good tool for business process and enterprise architecture.

I'm talking about several tools on business solution designs, as there are many calls and I've worked with several tools in this area.

I am employed with a company that has a license for BiZZdesign HoriZZon, so you can say a partner or a user, and if you buy the license, you become a partner.

I'm not involved in the pricing of BiZZdesign HoriZZon as it was bought by the organization.

Based on my experience with BiZZdesign HoriZZon, which I rate as 8 out of 10, I definitely recommend it, but I think it would be beneficial if there were opportunities to trial it before purchase, as it is robust and comparable to other tools I've worked with.

I used BiZZdesign HoriZZon  at two organizations. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I used it with a small team for architectural modeling of the student record system. We modeled teams, process objects, and their interactions with applications. We also used it to model a gradual rollout with plateaus showing migration over time. At the BBC, I used it to model software services for publishing content online. I showed key model views to senior stakeholders using Horizon, allowing them to modify and score applications and services.

There's always room for improvement. When I finished using it over a year ago, I discussed implementing C4 notation with BiZZdesign HoriZZon .They've likely done this now, but I haven't seen it. Setting up interactive views for stakeholders to score services was a bit difficult.

I have been using the product quite a lot.

I don't recall any stability issues or bugs. The tool has a fully version-controlled data storage system that saves work continuously.

Scalability is great - it's one of the product's biggest benefits. Multiple team members can simultaneously contribute to the same model without overwriting each other's work.

I didn't contact the tool's technical support for problems, but I did contact them for guidance. They're very open and helpful. I could easily get in touch to ask how to do things, and they'd respond with video calls, screen sharing, and walk-throughs. This was especially useful for scripting functionality, which is powerful but not well-documented. We called them several times for proactive help, not to solve problems retrospectively.

We were customers and bought licenses from them. We used their remote instance initially but upgraded to the on-device version due to lag. For pricing, we paid about £1200 a year per seat for the client installation at an educational rate but that was a long time ago. I'm not sure about commercial rates. I managed to get a free evaluation copy at BBC since it was for evaluation purposes.

It's not easy for anyone to use without training. When we purchased licenses, we bought a week's training. The solution also offers consulting and training services, which is helpful.

I would recommend the tool to others. I currently work for the British government and would love to use it here. I'd happily recommend it to anyone seeking an enterprise architecture tool, particularly those who like using different modeling notations that can interact with each other and for teams that could grow over time.

Key attributes include scalability and a unique feature that offers a window into the models for senior stakeholders without requiring installation on their machines. These are significant benefits of the product.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.