BiZZdesign HoriZZon Valuable Features

BP
Enterprise Architect EA Tooling (APM) at Acrostine

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.

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OL
Senior Enterprise Architect at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

I like the flexibility of the modeling part for standards like ArchiMate and, at the same time, BPMN. It allows us to connect elements from different areas and to have a single repository and a single source of truth. It gives us one place to do analysis throughout the organization. I also like the dashboards.

Its breadth of capabilities is very good from the modeling perspective, as it really covers all of the standards that we use in our company and even some that we haven't really used yet. I'm sure we will use those others as well because we keep growing our information.

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BijoyTalukder - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

The most valuable features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon, from my experience, include its out-of-the-box connectors, such as integration with ServiceNow, Excel, and SQL databases, making data repository management more efficient. It adheres to the ArchiMate 3.0 standard, enabling the creation of globally understandable enterprise-level architectures. Additionally, the HoriZZon dashboards are beneficial for higher management, offering quick access to key architectural insights, and they automatically handle dependencies, enhancing overall usability and capabilities.

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SubhraBanerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

Among the valuable features is the ability to document standards. For example, we have mandatory operating standards that need to be followed by every application and every architecture. We use things like table charts and pie charts for documenting the costs incurred across the systems. All of these are good features.

Another good feature is for documenting architectures. We use the classic view to put together all the components and to establish the relationships among them.

A third important feature is the HoriZZon part, where we actually publish all these views. We control access privilege in BiZZdesign, restricting edit permissions, meaning Enterprise Studio access, to only the architects. HoriZZon, on the other hand, is exposed to pretty much everybody across the organization, because it provides view-only access.

The breadth of capabilities the solution provides is also good. The best part is that it follows the ArchiMate principle, which is something of an industry-wide accepted principle.

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WP
Sr Manager Enterprise Architect at CSL Behring

The feature I find most valuable is that the start times and loading times are short. It takes only a few seconds to load the repository and whenever I want to open diagrams, they are there almost immediately. So you don't have to wait long for diagrams to open. What's more, you have "undo functionality", and it has some great features because each object has icons where you can set functions, like when you want to connect with somebody else. 

The program also has a bulk edit feature where you can insert multiple objects by entering a list of names, after which you can say which object types you want to have. The program then creates five or six of these object types. This also helps click editing. 

It also has an import feature so you can import, like Visio diagrams for example. We've been importing the Visio diagrams exported from the other products we've been using. If we want feedback on that, you can have it on that system as well. You may need to do some tweaks like if the background is using an XML file, which I think is quite outdated, you just enter these things and then it is imported correctly. 

The program also supports the ArchiMate exchange format, which has been specified by our group. So when you're using ArchiMate, this is a free product. I highly recommend ArchiMate because it doesn't have an enterprise repository. It is most efficient because it's running on the desktop, it's very fast and it has a context tool. So whenever you forget what a specific icon is, it has a quick help feature.

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SC
Sr Consultant - BiZZdesign Center of Excellence at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The enterprise studio where the modelling happens is valuable and a critical part of the tool for non-architects and business stakeholders. In addition, the HoriZZon, where we share most of our models with the stakeholders, is a feature that businesses appreciate because it makes it a collaboration tool.

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BT
Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

It has different process flow diagrams. In American Century, we do something a bit different because BiZZdesign, the company, bought another software mostly for the process flow part. Now, process flow diagrams can be drawn and very easily referenced from BiZZdesign. 

We classify architecture in three ways: business layer architecture, application layer architecture, and technology layer architecture. Within these layers, different artifacts can be found. So, we are working to convert our PPTs into meaningful information. 

Once things are put in BiZZdesign, it is very easy to use. I can just click on an application component and find out if we are using this particular component. This provides us flexibility.

This solution enables us to generate different charts or graphs that can be understood by people who are not enterprise architects. We are mainly preparing these charts and graphs for senior management who don't understand much technical stuff. So, this feature can be useful. Our CEO or other executive-level personnel don't have a lot of time to look into the details. There is the BiZZdesign HoriZZon platform and their Enterprise Studio, which are two different things. The executive-level personnel don't go into Enterprise Studio at all. With the HoriZZon platform, it is very easy to link everything in a dashboard on the HoriZZon site. So, somebody goes there, clicks it, and then they can see everything. Hopefully, once everything is in place, the charts should be useful for business stakeholders to make decisions more quickly.

BiZZdesign follows the ArchiMate principle, which is very good because it is standard practice. For the last year, from architecting, enterprise, and microservices perspectives, this particular tool has been good. This is a good tool with ArchiMate capabilities. 

One good thing that I found out about Enterprise Studio is its import and export capabilities. For example, if an Excel is properly added, and that particular meta model is done in HoriZZon, then we can import thousands of records and assess their relationship very easily. This import function is a good feature in that context. HoriZZon has very good connectivity with ServiceNow, SQL tables, and Excel.

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Kerim Yuksel - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and Managing Director at MOS

I find the publishing on the web feature to be the most valuable. The interface is intuitive enough as well.

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SS
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

One of the main advantages of this solution is that they have representation in the Open Group Forum, which means that any changes in ArchiMate are immediately implemented in BiZZdesign. The other big advantage is its ability to interweave various modeling languages and provide a seamless view between them that allows one to navigate from one language to the other through the integrated links and cross-model relations.

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Venkat Raju Mallipudi - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Chief of Enterprise Architecture & S/W Engineering at AG

The features I like are that it's very easy to implement and it's reliable.

This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool.

It's configurable, meaning you can integrate this product with different tools. However, there are some restrictions. 

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AH
Enterprise Information Technology Architect at Akka Technologies

This is very good software and very useful. As long as you are intending to do design at a business process level, at application processes levels, or even at data op level.

When you go down to modernizing the architecture of your infrastructure, which is part of my job, it's not at all made for that. They have only covered the eye level part of architecture design in IT, but they have not provided the capabilities to properly do what an organization is designing to do in the future.

It's a good tool. My colleagues that are making use of it for application, business processes, or data modeling, are very satisfied with it. They find it easy to use. The graphical representation is simple but therefore efficient, so I know that they are planning a very good commencement on the use of these tools.

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PH
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The powerful editing function in teamwork project-based, common or shared modeling, based on a powerful repository and knowledge sharing in a portal are the most valuable features. These are the most important features for me. I can add the integration of individual modeling notations like Archimate plus BPMN and DMN, and so on. We travel from one location to another and the tool allows us to keep track.

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it_user271593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner with 51-200 employees

BiZZdesign Architect makes separates model from views and has a quite extensive set of analytical stuff built in to be very useful in complex environments. Typically enterprise architecture management and strategic portfolio planning can be supported with these tools as the architecture capability matures.

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OK
Founder at MOS

The most valuable features are the application, portfolio, data, architectures, and modeling things.

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