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BiZZdesign HoriZZon pros and cons

Vendor: BiZZdesign

3.8 out of 5

18 reviews
78% willing to recommend

457 followers

Pros & Cons summary

BiZZdesign HoriZZon provides a robust platform with project-based modeling through shared repositories, supporting ArchiMate, BPMN, and DMN notations. It is scalable and flexible for enterprises and SMBs, featuring integration with systems like ServiceNow and Excel. While offering a single source of truth, it faces scalability and integration challenges, has a steep learning curve, and struggles with data collection and aggregation, requiring improvement in REST API compatibility.

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PROS

BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers powerful editing functions and knowledge sharing through a portal, with strong features like shared modeling and a central repository.

The integration of modeling notations such as ArchiMate, BPMN, and DMN allows for flexible and connected modeling across different domains.

The platform features short start and loading times, enabling quick access to diagrams and repositories.

It includes out-of-the-box connectors with tools like ServiceNow, Excel, and SQL databases, enhancing data repository management.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon excels in collaborative capabilities, allowing easy access to previous projects and fostering teamwork.

CONS

Integration with other existing tools needs improvement, and there are restrictions on what it can integrate with.

Users struggle with a repository of duplicate objects and the tool lacks capabilities for infrastructure modeling.

Seamlessness between modeling and analysis is lacking, requiring backend work to ensure information accuracy in HoriZZon.

The learning curve is steep, requiring 500 to 1,000 hours to master, making it difficult for casual users and most architects.

Improvements are needed in REST APIs and scalability, with issues like failover possibilities.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon Pros review quotes

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Olga Lucia Salgado

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

Apr 21, 2021

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.

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Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

Sep 12, 2021

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.

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reviewer2232669

Head of Solutions Architecture and Modelling at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 24, 2024

The tool's most valuable feature is that its collaboration part is very good.

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BT

Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

Aug 30, 2021

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.

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WP

Sr Manager Enterprise Architect at CSL Behring

Aug 19, 2019

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.

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Venkat Raju Mallipudi

Group Chief of Enterprise Architecture & S/W Engineering/ CTO at Aventra Group

Mar 26, 2024

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.

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reviewer2022765

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

Jan 10, 2023

The enterprise studio where the modelling happens is valuable.

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Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

Oct 18, 2023

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.

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Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Aug 6, 2019

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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reviewer2704950

Senior SAP Consultant at Deloitte

May 13, 2025

The most valuable features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon include the diagrammatic representation of BPMN models, which I find good for modeling, and things such as capability maps.

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BiZZdesign HoriZZon Cons review quotes

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Olga Lucia Salgado

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

Apr 21, 2021

There is room for improvement in making it more seamless between the modeling and the analysis pieces. Sometimes you have to do some work in the backend to ensure that the HoriZZon portal really gets all of the information the way you want it. They are working on the seamlessness between what they call Enterprise Studio and HoriZZon.

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Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

Sep 12, 2021

I have seen table charts where, if the chart is a little too big, it does not fit in HoriZZon and it is not at all visible... There have been several times where we could not publish a chart properly and we had to break the chart into small tables and create multiple artifacts, creating a complete mess. This should be seriously taken up by BiZZdesign because there is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of usability. It's not at all good, unfortunately.

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reviewer2232669

Head of Solutions Architecture and Modelling at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 24, 2024

The ability to generate charts and deal with a use case involving Kibana was quite difficult.

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BT

Enterprise Architect at American Century Investments

Aug 30, 2021

In HoriZZon, there are different matrices. In some of the cases, there is an option to aggregate them, but in other cases, we have not done this, e.g., to see the proper costs. For example, if I have 10 different matrices, then I need to create an aggregate view out of those 10 matrices somewhere. That is where we have been struggling a bit. We have a counterpart from the HoriZZon product team with whom we have bi-weekly discussions. We have suggested to him that this can be improved.

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WP

Sr Manager Enterprise Architect at CSL Behring

Aug 19, 2019

The repository of duplicate objects is bad.

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Venkat Raju Mallipudi

Group Chief of Enterprise Architecture & S/W Engineering/ CTO at Aventra Group

Mar 26, 2024

Integration definitely needs improvement. There are some restrictions. We've seen that it doesn't integrate with everything we might expect.

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reviewer2022765

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

Jan 10, 2023

There could be simpler modelling.

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Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

Oct 18, 2023

One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs.

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Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Aug 6, 2019

It should be more open to integrating with other existing tools. Although there has been progress in the past.

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reviewer2704950

Senior SAP Consultant at Deloitte

May 13, 2025

It takes a long time to learn and understand, which is a learning curve you have to go through, but once you know how it works, it's very nice to work with.

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