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Great tool for modelling architecture
What do you like best about the product?
Very powerful and good implementation of standard metamodels - can produce from quality views and analysis.
Customer support is very responsive.
Customer support is very responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Steep learning curve, although that's true of most architecture tools.
Documentation of the scripting language is very poor.
Documentation of the scripting language is very poor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating stakeholder views and roadmaps
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Bizzdesign Horizzon: Empowering Enterprise Architecture Excellence
What do you like best about the product?
Bizzdesign Horizzon has significantly simplified our enterprise architecture endeavors. Its intuitive interface and extensive documentation make it incredibly easy to use, reducing the learning curve. Implementation was a breeze, and the available webinars and training sessions expedited our onboarding process.
Customer support from Bizzdesign is top-notch; they're responsive and always ready to assist with any questions or issues. We frequently use the software for our architecture models and are continually impressed by its performance.
The software is feature-rich, with powerful analytical tools and customization options to meet our industry-specific needs. Integrating Bizzdesign Horizzon into our existing workflow was seamless, enhancing our overall efficiency. I use it daily as it is essential for architects.
Customer support from Bizzdesign is top-notch; they're responsive and always ready to assist with any questions or issues. We frequently use the software for our architecture models and are continually impressed by its performance.
The software is feature-rich, with powerful analytical tools and customization options to meet our industry-specific needs. Integrating Bizzdesign Horizzon into our existing workflow was seamless, enhancing our overall efficiency. I use it daily as it is essential for architects.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the software's ease of use is remarkable, there is still a slight learning curve for newcomers. Additionally, the pricing model might not be suitable for smaller organizations. However, the software's return on investment, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, far outweighs these minor concerns.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bizzdesign Horizzon has been a game-changer for our enterprise architecture efforts, solving several critical problems and delivering significant benefits:
Complexity Management: Dealing with complex systems, processes, and data used to be a daunting task. Bizzdesign Horizzon simplifies this complexity with its clear and structured visual representation. This helps me and my team understand, communicate, and manage complex architectures more efficiently.
Collaboration Challenges: Collaborating on architecture models was once cumbersome, but Bizzdesign Horizzon's real-time collaboration features have revolutionized our teamwork. We can now work seamlessly together, ensuring that everyone is on the same page, and decision-making is streamlined.
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Making informed decisions based on architecture data is paramount. Bizzdesign Horizzon equips us with robust analytical tools for impact analysis, performance measurement, and scenario planning. This empowers us to make data-driven decisions that align with our organizational objectives.
Industry-Specific Adaptability: Every industry has its unique standards and requirements. Bizzdesign Horizzon's customization options allow us to tailor the software to meet our specific needs, ensuring that it aligns with industry standards and regulations.
Efficiency and Integration: The software enhances our overall efficiency by centralizing our enterprise architecture efforts. It seamlessly integrates with our existing tools and workflow, reducing manual data entry and improving the accuracy of our architecture models.
In summary, Bizzdesign Horizzon has become an indispensable tool in our daily operations, ensuring that we can effectively manage our enterprise architecture with ease and precision. It simplifies complexity, streamlines collaboration, enables data-driven decisions, adapts to our industry-specific needs, and enhances our overall efficiency.
Complexity Management: Dealing with complex systems, processes, and data used to be a daunting task. Bizzdesign Horizzon simplifies this complexity with its clear and structured visual representation. This helps me and my team understand, communicate, and manage complex architectures more efficiently.
Collaboration Challenges: Collaborating on architecture models was once cumbersome, but Bizzdesign Horizzon's real-time collaboration features have revolutionized our teamwork. We can now work seamlessly together, ensuring that everyone is on the same page, and decision-making is streamlined.
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Making informed decisions based on architecture data is paramount. Bizzdesign Horizzon equips us with robust analytical tools for impact analysis, performance measurement, and scenario planning. This empowers us to make data-driven decisions that align with our organizational objectives.
Industry-Specific Adaptability: Every industry has its unique standards and requirements. Bizzdesign Horizzon's customization options allow us to tailor the software to meet our specific needs, ensuring that it aligns with industry standards and regulations.
Efficiency and Integration: The software enhances our overall efficiency by centralizing our enterprise architecture efforts. It seamlessly integrates with our existing tools and workflow, reducing manual data entry and improving the accuracy of our architecture models.
In summary, Bizzdesign Horizzon has become an indispensable tool in our daily operations, ensuring that we can effectively manage our enterprise architecture with ease and precision. It simplifies complexity, streamlines collaboration, enables data-driven decisions, adapts to our industry-specific needs, and enhances our overall efficiency.
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What do you like best about the product?
The comprehensive set of features. It is a very complete tool for doing Enterprise Architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some UI controls are a bit non-standard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End-to-end Enterprise Architectural designs and documentation.
End-to-end solution for documenting business/enterprise/process architecture
What do you like best about the product?
- Intuitive Creative pannel and model browser
- The training content from the supplier is pretty good and cover most basis
- Possibility to implement script to automatize some tasks
- Fairly price solution
- Using Archimate as the modeling language while letting you add custom object type and relations
- Once prefered relation are set between object, you can't force "wrong" or undisired relation in your models
- Possibility to have multiple environnement (Production, Training, etc...)
- Possibility to create groups with varying rights down to specific model package
- The training content from the supplier is pretty good and cover most basis
- Possibility to implement script to automatize some tasks
- Fairly price solution
- Using Archimate as the modeling language while letting you add custom object type and relations
- Once prefered relation are set between object, you can't force "wrong" or undisired relation in your models
- Possibility to have multiple environnement (Production, Training, etc...)
- Possibility to create groups with varying rights down to specific model package
What do you dislike about the product?
- Only immediately responsive for most action when installed locally rather than on a cloud server
- Impossible to work in team simultaneously on the same view (the only way was to share a mouse via Teams or Teamviewer)
- It can take quite a while to launch in larger corporation with many accounts
- There is a lack of native function for governance and quality control
- Dashboard through Kibana are not that intuitive
- Impossible to work in team simultaneously on the same view (the only way was to share a mouse via Teams or Teamviewer)
- It can take quite a while to launch in larger corporation with many accounts
- There is a lack of native function for governance and quality control
- Dashboard through Kibana are not that intuitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enable lasting documentation of business architecture, while also facilitating: reflexion, ideation, analysis,roadmapping, and more.
Bizzdesign: A Useful Tool with Great Opportunities
What do you like best about the product?
I really like to create both business and IT diagrams and create insightful dashboards. Bizzdesign gives us the opportunity evaluate the enterprise is. The insights that we deliver through this system are genuinely exciting and are the driving force for a lot of our discussions with the business to further optimize the organization. Their customer support is quite helpful. Also Bizzdesign's vision and roadmap will make the tool more useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately it's not the easiest tool to use.
There can be more importing and exporting options.
There can be more importing and exporting options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bizzdesign solves our documentation problem and helps us to see the connections in the enterprise.
User friendly interface
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly interface and access. Easy to find what you want with the new search-possibilities
What do you dislike about the product?
The colorview better worked in Insight than in Horizzon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps in manage the resposibilities and to get an overview on teh architectorial landscape.
Seamless experience to create Architecture repository, business and Technical roadmap
What do you like best about the product?
Customeizes and predefined views, templates based on need
What do you dislike about the product?
Updating the chnages from multiple teams
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To know Current and Future state of Application, Business and Techonlogy Components
An outsider's point of view
What do you like best about the product?
Bizzdesign is the only real product in this space that still has an on-premises version. Our company is really not too excited about our business processes being stored in the public cloud since we (rightly or wrongly) believe they are a competitve advantage.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is really no falir to the output. I realize that the flat, 2-dimensional motif is all the rage today, but it makes things so dead looking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had initially stated down a path of using CEB to attempt to accomplish what we are now beginning to implement in Bizzdesign. Gartner bought and terminated CEB, so we had to look for a new on-premises tool to allow us to map out infrastructure dependencies. You typically don't think of whether your software applications will run on your current, aging hardware, or whether your update of infrastructure will break your software stack. for us this came to a head with old versions of Oracle and Solaris (SPARC). Integration with Technopedia has been a game changer for the Infrastructure end of an EA. Of course, our BA's also have the responsibility of documenting how our business processes overlay our enterprise architectures (so we finally know what's keeping the ship afloat).
Easy to read, use, and get started with
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is that it allows you to work with different methods, using the same tool. You can work with ARki and BCNN as they are connected in BiZZdesign HoriZZon, which is fantastic. Its documentation is also really good. It's easy to read and it's open to the Internet.
What needs improvement?
BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement when it comes to the implementation of the tool. Its origin is quite pragmatic. Although it does have the project as a concept, it's not possible to look at it from a project perspective, which is not very practical.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used BiZZdesign HoriZZon for many years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
When it comes to stability, I give it a seven out of ten. It's a fairly stable solution but has issues with deployment. The database itself and the synchronization with the database of multiple users are not up to standard. A lot of manual synchronization steps are required from the user. The solution depends on someone to manually update the Central Point in order for it to receive the information. We had about 200 people using BiZZdesign.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is a bit of a problem for BiZZdesign. There is always a possibility it will failover. I would rate the scalability of the solution an eight out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also use ARIS at our company, but BiZZdesign HoriZZon is a lot easier to use and allows you to maximize your knowledge and abilities while using it.
How was the initial setup?
BiZZdesign has a lot of issues with deployment. It is web-based and can get a little complicated. It had to go through multiple streams such as Amazon and Virtual PC, which makes things pretty complex.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The administration and the licensing part of BiZZdesign are quite easy since it's a smaller company. It is also not very cheap. It costs about $2,000 per year.
What other advice do I have?
BiZZdesign HoriZZon has strong requirements for the technical aspect of things, but it is easy to start working on it if you have knowledge of VPN and UML. It gives you the chance to adapt it to your environment and to implement the things you already know. Overall, I give it a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Excellent tool for modelling and architecture analysis
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of sharing diagrams and data is very good. It is also relatively easy to extend to encompass additional data. It is very easy to use for anyone and the easy availability of support from within the portal is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes keeping track of what content is relevant or up to date can be harder than perhaps it should be. It's easy to generate lots of new views and lose track of them if you don't use favourites.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Horizzon helps with sharing architectural information outside of the team and in allowing interaction with diagrams and data beyond just being a drawing. The ability to run colour-casts or filters can really help people to focus on specific information and for views to be reused.
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