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Bizzdesign Horizzon
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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.
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.
Great product, easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Great product, easy to undetand and to model your architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not having a big knowledge base of best practices
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bizzdesign is managing a centralized repository of our enterprise models in a way that is easy to use
Collaborative Enterprise Architecture
What do you like best about the product?
The Horizon product makes it easier to share and engage various stakeholders
What do you dislike about the product?
The downside is that it still needs a lot more development one feature that would be nice is around ideation. These are features that are on the road map.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently its providing a view of out solution landscape the key applications and their state.
The most versatile and robust solution we have used to truly transform the organization
What do you like best about the product?
Bizzdesign Horizzon provides the ability to customize the solution in multiple ways to meet our organization's specific use cases. Unlike many other solutions that paint you into a corner with hardline features, Bizzdesign Horizzon and Enterprise Studio allow us to script enhancements to out-of-the-box features that meet our needs. Every organization is different, and having a solution like Bizzdesign Horizzon allows us to maintain our strategic approach.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area where Bizzdesign Horizzon could improve is around the consumable side of the solution. In particular, allowing greater visibility to Horizzon for the organization (as consumers). While it is a great feature to be able to embed views from Horizzon into other platforms such as SharePoint, it is far easier, in my opinion, to present views and dashboards from Horizon directly, but current consumer role licensing for Horizzon can and often is a limiting factor for organizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed an APM solution that allows for integrating data with ServiceNow, Bizzdesign's APM + solution is the perfect solution for us. We are also using Bizzdesign to establish architectural modeling standards that are used in conjunction with our IT Intake process to ensure Architectural groups are involved early on in demand processing.
Excellent program
What do you like best about the product?
Very user friendly and easy to learn. Would recommend 10/10
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the program would freeze up but usually resolved itself relatively fast.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This has helped immensely with our organization procedures as well as assisting with training new hires.
Very user friendly and software AG is a one stop shop in your digital transformation journey
What do you like best about the product?
Software AG is a one a stop shop and they have products across the digital stack and ALFABET is their IT portfolio and enterprise architecture management solution. They are the leaders in both IT portfolio management and Enterprise architecture management in the Gartner quadrant
What do you dislike about the product?
Software AG products are very costly and ALFABET is no exception. All client discussions comes to a pause or stand still during the pricing discussions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application portfolio rationalization, IT Planning - Target state architecture and see compliance of each application to target state, Project and portfolio governance, Business-IT synchronization,
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Alfabet is definitely the way to go if you are looking for a single stop shop for your digital transformation.
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