BiZZdesign HoriZZon Previous Solutions

BP
Enterprise Architect EA Tooling (APM) at Acrostine

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.

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

We were using Excel and Visio and SharePoint. In addition, I and maybe one other person were using the free software called Archi, which has some modeling capabilities based on ArchiMate. We are still using Visio for business process modeling and that's mainly because it's quite expensive to give licenses to everybody. So some people are creating business process models in Visio, and then we upload them to BiZZdesign. We also still have a lot of data in SharePoint.

We brought in BiZZdesign to have consistency in our information and so that we don't have to update an Excel file 10 times, just to produce one analysis. With Excel we also didn't know which one was the latest version and that created a lot of challenges. Now we know the information is in one place and that we should just be looking there from now on.

In terms of making the business case for bringing on BiZZdesign, the vendor helped by providing insights and charts we could share with business leaders. We also got some guidance from third-party reviews. We agreed that we needed an enterprise architecture tool to help us to mature and organize our information and analysis. After that, it was more a matter of which one to choose, and that came down to a cost-benefit analysis. 

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WP
Sr Manager Enterprise Architect at CSL Behring

We also used iServer and Archi so when somebody wants to work with ArchiMate as a modeling language, this would be my strongest recommendation. It's a standard published by the open group. They have training courses available, you can certify, and you can find a vast amount of material on this on the internet. 

These two solutions are really fast and you can also define your properties in the repository to enhance your reporting features. I've been using it now for four or five years and I'm always astonished by its functionality and strength. 

The Office iServer portal is quite flexible and gives you access to all the information and you can even define who's able to see what. With BiZZdesign you have more interaction. I saw in the demos that you also can successfully build diagrams and color code them based on some performance features.

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March 2024
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Kerim Yuksel - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and Managing Director at MOS

We used Software AG previously and switched to BiZZdesign because it is more scalable.

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BT
Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

Previously, I worked with IBM Rational Rose, which is also very good software. It is very difficult for me to compare because I am not familiar with the latest version of Rational Rose. I used it seven to eight years ago. So, I do not know what features they currently have. 

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PH
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Before this solution, I would make a model in Visio, PowerPoint and such, not enterprise architecture management tools.

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it_user271593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner with 51-200 employees

I used Archi at first but this is only for creating views and not for maintaining a model, which in the core is the real architectural work.

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Buyer's Guide
Enterprise Architecture Management
March 2024
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765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.