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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avolution ABACUS

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AABACUS, from Australian software company Avolution, is an enterprise architecture modeling tool.N/A

    BIZZdesign HoriZZon

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABiZZdesign HoriZZon from Dutch company BiZZdesign is an enterprise architecture management platform. It replaces the former BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score5.8 out of 10
    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
    Score5.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
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    User Ratings
    Avolution ABACUSBIZZdesign HoriZZon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Avolution ABACUSBIZZdesign HoriZZon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Avolution
    Well suited scenarios include IT portfolio management, project portfolio management, enterprise architecture planning, modeling of business capabilities, using standard frameworks that ship out of the box such as TOGAF, and integration with SharePoint. Less appropriate scenarios would be detailed data modeling and using the tool expecting to get model drive code execution.
    Incentivized
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    BiZZdesign
    I would not recommend using BizzDesign. For Enterprise Architecture, like business strategy, business process modelling, IT architectures there are better and in most cases less expensive tools.
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    Pros
    Avolution
    • Modelling the Enterprise through the creation of catalogues and matrices of Enterprise information
    • Creation of views to supports strategy execution and decision making
    • Central storage of Enterprise information
    • Management of a agreed meta model
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    BiZZdesign
    • Archimate support is as defined in the Archimate standard.
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    Cons
    Avolution
    • More standard connectors for integration with other modeling tools could be beneficial for companies having legacy tools/fragmented toolsets.
    • Better automated diagramming features would be useful.
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    BiZZdesign
    • Usability of the tool is quite bad.
    • It is tedious to even create simple reports. Created reports are published as image, so basically not usable for end users.
    • Support of other model languages than Archimate is less supported. In ERD you do not even have a layout functionality.
    • Any state of the art integrations like cloud stencils are missing.
    • Import/export with Excel is tedious and SQL import not fully implemented.
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    Support Rating
    Avolution
    Highly knowledgable team and fast response times
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    BiZZdesign
    Support for simple questions is okay. For some more elaborate things, also tool errors, you may not get even an answer for months/more than a year.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Avolution
    - Microsoft tools are manual and data is not centralized
    - ARIS is not as flexible as Avolution
    - LeanIX is close, but lacks business content/accelerators that Avolution provides
    - LeanIX is in the cloud and multi-user
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    BiZZdesign
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    Return on Investment
    Avolution
    • Positive - time to value for EA activities
    • Positive - robust decision making
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    BiZZdesign
    • We were not able to get much benefit from the tool. Some users and partner teams meanwhile moved on to other software.
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