Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management vs BiZZdesign HoriZZon comparison

Software AG and BiZZdesign are both solutions in the Enterprise Architecture Management category. Software AG is ranked #16, while BiZZdesign is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0. Software AG holds a 2.5% mindshare in AM, compared to BiZZdesign’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of BiZZdesign users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management and BiZZdesign HoriZZon are enterprise architecture solutions. Alfabet leads with cost-effectiveness and customer support, while BiZZdesign HoriZZon dominates with its advanced features, offering more overall value.

Features: Alfabet offers comprehensive portfolio management, strategic planning capabilities, and efficient features for cost-sensitive environments. BiZZdesign HoriZZon focuses on collaboration with stakeholders, advanced analytics, and seamless integration, providing superior strategic insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alfabet provides a flexible deployment model and strong customer support, simplifying the deployment process. BiZZdesign HoriZZon emphasizes continuous support and user training, ensuring ongoing engagement.

Pricing and ROI: Alfabet is known for its competitive pricing, aligning well with customer budgets and showcasing impressive ROI. BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers superior ROI despite higher upfront costs, due to its comprehensive feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

Alfabet Enterprise Architec...

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management is 2.5%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 5.4%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BiZZdesign HoriZZon	5.4%
Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management	2.5%
Other	92.1%

Enterprise Architecture Management

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AlanJackson

Partner: Enterprise Strategy & Advisory at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Great taxonomy support but raw business processing should be upgraded

Alfabet is not just a technology tool, it's also a business tool. And if a decision's made without the business involved, then Alfabet will not be in a position to deliver anything more than support for enterprise architect drawings and solutions drawings. It has to be the business. If you do that, it works well. If you don't and I've had the experience where they haven't evolved a business, then it just becomes a tech tool that the business doesn't care about. The stigma of having an environment that was so delayed in the maintenance caused lots of finger-pointing within the organization of who was right and who was wrong. It took a considerable period of time to move people past that point to actually look at it as a business tool supported by the technology team. I rate the solution seven out of 10.

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Maamoun Hasuneh

Chief Enterprise Architect at EVC

Architecture repository has strengthened data‑driven decisions and supported risk‑aware planning

BiZZdesign HoriZZon needs to publish its integration scenarios and integration points with other digital transformation tools such as IT service management, risk management, asset management, customer service, and ERP. The company should first build the scenario and define its integration points in business and technology to make customers more confident about having a complete solution. Currently, there is a challenge with the company to offer transparent and documented integration. They offer five integration points at a fixed price, but other things come at additional costs. However, specific information about what those additional items are, what the scenarios entail, what the schemas are, what the workflows include, and what the application integration involves is not provided. The learning portal does not include integration documentation at a high level or in detail. The portal does have comprehensive resources explaining how to make their website, how to create dashboards, and how to publish EA content, which are clear. The high-end tool on the laptop is also explained in detail, covering elements, relations, and everything as standard.

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Pros

"The initial setup was straightforward. It takes two to three days to set up the environment. One person was able to handle the implementation."

"The taxonomy support across all the phases is the most advantageous feature."

"The most valuable features of this solution are its customizability, and flexibility in the configuration."

"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."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon is scalable, and I'd give it an eight out of ten for scalability. Our customers are enterprise level companies, but the solution is suitable for small and mid-sized companies as well."

"I used BiZZdesign HoriZZon at two organizations. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I used it with a small team for architectural modeling of the student record system. We modeled teams, process objects, and their interactions with applications. We also used it to model a gradual rollout with plateaus showing migration over time. At the BBC, I used it to model software services for publishing content online. I showed key model views to senior stakeholders using Horizon, allowing them to modify and score applications and services."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon stands out from other solutions on the market due to its uniqueness in conformance with the standard."

"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."

"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."

"The enterprise studio where the modelling happens is valuable."

"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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Cons

"The product is not great at implementing security frameworks across an end-to-end supply chain."

"We would like to see the visualization of assets, as well as artificial intelligence techniques to assist us in making our decisions."

"The user experience, the layout and the different technologies behind the presentations are a bit old. These need to be updated. They should focus on web development. It's simply not supporting the current user experience guidelines."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon's technical support has presented challenges, as extra fees are required and the process is not straightforward."

"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."

"There's room for improvement. When I finished using it over a year ago, I discussed implementing C4 notation with BiZZdesign HoriZZon.They've likely done this now, but I haven't seen it. Setting up interactive views for stakeholders to score services was a bit difficult."

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

"Scalability is a bit of a problem for BiZZdesign. There is always a possibility it will failover."

"The repository of duplicate objects is bad."

"The users of BiZZdesign should be able to enter their data or make modeling changes via HoriZZon."

"There could be simpler modelling."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"In terms of this particular product usage, my clients currently only use per-user licenses."

"If one is very cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a seven out of ten."

"The price is reasonable."

"[The] Orbus... pricing model was based on every single functionality having a price. The pricing was comparable but if we wanted to scale, it would have ended up being a lot more expensive. BiZZdesign gave us one price with all of the functionality, and we could scale as much as we needed."

"We were customers and bought licenses from them. We used their remote instance initially but upgraded to the on-device version due to lag. For pricing, we paid about 2200 pounds a year per seat for the client installation at an educational rate. I'm not sure about commercial rates. I managed to get a free copy at BBC since it was for evaluation purposes."

"The pricing model is slightly on the high side and could be more competitive for long-term partnerships."

"I haven't found any issues with the scalability and licensing parts that are access-related."

"First and foremost within the scope of improvement for the solution would be the cost. It's very costly..."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

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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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Overview

Software AG's Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management Platform provides a collaborative platform for aligning the IT landscape with the business to guide competitive transformation. You can describe complex IT systems in terms of their business, application, information and technical layers, and develop standards for change. Build the foundation for business-IT transformation with an accurate, real-time picture of the IT landscape, including all applications and technologies, the inter-relationships between them, the information they exchange as well as the business organizations and processes they support.

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Make smarter decisions and optimize outcomes by unifying all your strategy, capabilities, operating models and change portfolios in a single platform.

With all the data about your business in one place you can see the big picture and make properly informed strategic decisions to drive growth. Bizzdesign Horizzon brings together strategy, IT architecture, operating models, data, capabilities, change portfolios and ideas into a single, intuitive collaborative business design platform. Real-time visibility of key metrics and trends allows you to take action more quickly. Accelerating the speed and accuracy of your operations now – and into the future.

Core Platform Capabilities:

Multi-discipline collaboration
Data Integration
Advanced analytics
Models and Roadmaps
Governance & Security
Business Insight Graph

BiZZdesign

Sample Customers

Metro Bank, Credit Suisse

T-Mobile, Shell, HSBC, Erasmus University, VIVAT Insurance

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