Avolution ABACUS vs BiZZdesign HoriZZon comparison

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Avolution and BiZZdesign are both solutions in the Enterprise Architecture Management category. Avolution is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while BiZZdesign is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. Avolution holds a 3.0% mindshare in AM, compared to BiZZdesign’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Avolution users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of BiZZdesign users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Avolution ABACUS and BiZZdesign HoriZZon compete in the enterprise architecture tools category. BiZZdesign HoriZZon holds the upper hand with its robust feature set and positive organizational impact, despite Avolution ABACUS's favorable pricing and support.

Features: Avolution ABACUS offers dynamic modeling, customization, and real-time collaboration, making it suitable for adaptable architectural needs. BiZZdesign HoriZZon provides advanced integration capabilities, strategic analytics, and visualization tools, excelling in strategic planning and holistic enterprise strategy.

Room for Improvement: Avolution ABACUS could enhance integration capabilities, expand its visualization toolkit, and improve strategic insights. BiZZdesign HoriZZon might benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing costs, and expanding customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Avolution ABACUS offers straightforward deployment and reliable support, easing onboarding for users. In contrast, BiZZdesign HoriZZon provides flexible, cloud-based deployment and proactive customer service, catering to organizations seeking agility and responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Avolution ABACUS presents a cost-effective solution with competitive pricing and lower initial setup costs, ideal for budget-conscious organizations. BiZZdesign HoriZZon, though priced higher, offers a greater ROI through enhanced strategic insights and long-term value for enterprises seeking comprehensive strategic benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Avolution ABACUS

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

4th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of Avolution ABACUS is 3.0%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 3.9%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BiZZdesign HoriZZon	3.9%
Avolution ABACUS	3.0%
Other	93.1%

Enterprise Architecture Management

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JoseCamacho

Freelancer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Supports evaluating architecture through corporate objectives

I conducted an evaluation of enterprise architecture at the European Court in Luxembourg, reviewing and analyzing existing implementations to identify potential improvements and providing recommendations I conduct evaluations to identify potential improvements and make recommendations, forming a…

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reviewer2022765

Sr Consultant BI Z Zdesign Center Of Excellence at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Targeted stakeholder views have improved decision making and reduced architecture costs

BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers various valuable features. The best ones, besides those I have mentioned, include the AI space with the Diagram Describer and the Explorer functionality. I understand that BiZZdesign HoriZZon is also working on the Diagram Importer, which complements the Diagram Describer feature, providing full import and export functionality. Together with the contributor role and targeted stakeholder management, these features are essential. BiZZdesign HoriZZon introduced the Dynamic Solution Intent, enhancing the solution architecture by engaging diverse stakeholders with architectural artifacts. It supports the development of holistic solutions using reusable repository components. The deployment is hybrid cloud-based, specifically using Amazon Web Services as the cloud provider. I have also seen the implementation of return on investment features that contribute significantly to the organization’s overall effectiveness.

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Pros

"The ease of modeling and the ease of showing interconnectivity and relationships is the most valuable. It is fairly simple and out of the box. It is customizable in many ways. It is a pretty good tool."

"The most valuable feature is that it has a customizable meta-model, which is key."

"The tool's implementation is straightforward as everything is readily available. For instance, setting up a portal is seamless, allowing easy publishing and access to data. However, integrating with other tools like BI, Power BI, or Grafana requires setting up pipelines between them."

"It is a very stable solution...The initial setup of Avolution ABACUS is very easy."

"The technical support is very good. They are responsive and the answers they provide are detailed."

"The product is easy to use and well-structured for the integrations we need it to make."

"Scalable and stable tool for roadmapping and modeling, with a good dashboard, end-to-end impact analysis, and portfolio management."

"If you want a data model of flexibility and catalog scalability I would recommend it from that perspective."

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"Everything being in one place really benefits me from an architectural perspective and also benefits the architectural, enterprise architecture team and the business."

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

"The main outcome is that we have centralized documentation instead of having information in emails or somewhere else, and it is easier for the whole organization to find information."

"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."

"I have seen measurable improvements and concrete benefits, with time and productivity gains resulting in time savings with a ratio of twenty to thirty percent and an ability to deploy quite quickly, since we found modules that already existed or applications that already existed and in that case, we gained in power."

"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."

"In my experience, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is very stable."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon has positively impacted my organization and my clients' organizations by providing a common language between architects, solution architects, infrastructure architects, and the entire corporation so that we can change and understand our actions collaboratively."

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Cons

"The company needs to update the UML version they are using for the product as it is quite old."

"In the future, there could be improvements in integration and enhancements."

"I use reference models, which are taxonomies, in my EA work. It is a reference model/taxonomy of things with capabilities, sub capabilities, and sub-sub capabilities, so you're working it down. I haven't yet found a simple way to implement that in Abacus. It could be that it is there, but I don't know how to do it."

"If they want to expand in the European market then they are going to have to improve their technical support."

"The most valuable features are the catalog and the diagram."

"For some of the functionality, it might be a little complicated for people getting started."

"This solution needs to improve resource usage because it has a heavy browser. It is easy to use, but it takes time to load and to run other programs."

"The tool doesn't have any intelligence built in. We have to design the dashboards ourselves, which is a challenge because we have to depend on the vendor for customizations."

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

"There is room for improvement in making it more seamless between the modeling and the analysis pieces."

"It is only available for Windows right now and it really is an outdated interface and framework that is being used."

"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."

"Since the accuracy is less, there is not much reliability, which means we need to cross-verify multiple times to ensure the data."

"This tool is something of a beast - it takes a long time to learn, and it isn't possible for casual users and most architects. Unless a person spends 500 or 1,000 hours on the tool or does very concentrated sessions using all its functionalities, it's very difficult to master."

"While it is not the fastest in terms of performance, it is workable and requires reasonable patience."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is not an issue."

"The cost of Avolution ABACUS is reasonable, given the features they offer in comparison to other tools."

"There is a subscription for this solution. We are on an annual subscription because you sometimes receive special offers the longer you subscribe."

"I'm paying on a yearly basis. I don't know whether it's a highly expensive tool or not. I'm getting a single version of it, and I don't have the enterprise part on it because I don't need the server component, and I don't need a web browser component. My estimate would be that it's a very reasonably priced tool given that you don't need to have licenses with everyone in order to get the information and the decision support capabilities out of the tool. You use the enterprise edition on top of the studio, which is the heart of the tool. I am not aware of any additional costs."

"This solution is expensive for some people's budgets and they need to offer a Lite version at a cheaper price"

"To get a fairly extensive license for Enterprise Architects from Spark is approximately US $400.00, maybe less, but with Avolution Abacus it was approximately US $2000.00 per year, and that includes maintenance with the Abacus tool."

"It is expensive."

"It is competitive. It is not chump change. I am just using the studio version. I am not using the full enterprise version, which would probably cost me three times more for single-use, but it gives a lot more capability and analysis. It is server-based as well, and it is reasonably priced compared to a lot of the other tools. There are other tools that have other sorts of capabilities, but in order to use them, you'd really have to have like 50 users for the price to become justifiable."

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"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."

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

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

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

"[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."

"The price is reasonable."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

13%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	20

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Avolution ABACUS?

While Avolution ABACUS is flexible, it can be complex to work with as it requires knowledge of specific configurations to customize the product. It would be beneficial to have seminars or other met...

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What advice do you have for others considering Avolution ABACUS?

I rate Avolution ABACUS eight out of ten. The focus should be on implementing and understanding enterprise architecture concepts rather than the specific tool.

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What needs improvement with BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

I noticed that there were times when the cloud version would get stuck or was not able to load. There were issues with the login capability, and that was some time ago, a few months ago. I am not s...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

There was a merger that the client entered into, and following that merger, we inherited a large technology inventory from the acquired organization. The acquired inventory from the organization ha...

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What advice do you have for others considering BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

The real experience I have had and seeing the result of using it in a large team where a large scale enterprise architecture and merger is happening is a very unique experience I have had with BiZZ...

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Overview

Avolution ABACUS provides comprehensive enterprise architecture modeling with customizable features, facilitating effective planning and analysis for businesses seeking advanced integration and analytical capabilities.

Avolution ABACUS stands out in enterprise architecture with its rich feature set including customizable meta-models and 3D modeling. It offers role-based permissions, robust integration capabilities, and is well-regarded for its traceability and dynamic customization. Users benefit from impact analysis, support for multiple frameworks, and its capacity to support corporate objectives and IT infrastructure. A user-friendly dashboard, application testing, and extensive modeling capabilities enable professionals to create strategic roadmaps, although improvements are needed in UI complexity and flexible reporting.

What are the main features of Avolution ABACUS?

Customizable Meta-Models: Allows users to tailor features to specific business requirements.
3D Modeling: Enhances visualization of architectures.
Role-Based Permissions: Facilitates secure collaboration.
Integration Capabilities: Supports seamless interaction with various frameworks.
Impact Analysis: Aids in understanding changes and their potential effects.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Improved Traceability: Facilitates tracking of architectural components.
Effective Cataloging: Organizes data comprehensively for easy access.
Dynamic Customization: Adapts features to specific needs effortlessly.
Analytical and Simulation Tools: Provides insights for effective decision-making.
Predefined Components: Accelerates the modeling process.

Industries such as banking utilize Avolution ABACUS for application domain architecture, benefiting from its comprehensive diagram and model designing abilities. Consultants demonstrate this to clients, showcasing potentials like identifying capability overlaps and standards. On-premises deployments allow organizations to access, evaluate, and develop within established environments, aiding in effective architectural planning and analysis.

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BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers robust enterprise architecture modeling, seamless collaboration, and supports ArchiMate standards, benefiting organizations with efficient integration capabilities, intuitive features, and stakeholder accessibility.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon facilitates enterprise architecture through its strong modeling features in Enterprise Studio, providing collaborative dashboards and integration with systems like ServiceNow and SQL databases. Known for quick loading times and diagrammatic representation, it supports multiple modeling languages while maintaining an intuitive web interface. Despite its strengths, organizations find challenges with interface complexity, high costs, a steep learning curve, and scalability in large datasets.

What are the key features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

Modeling in Enterprise Studio: Enables comprehensive architecture and process modeling.
Collaborative Dashboards: Promotes teamwork with shared perspectives.
ArchiMate Standards: Ensures compliance and consistency in modeling frameworks.
Integration Options: Seamlessly connects with ServiceNow and SQL databases.
Repository Management: Centralizes data for efficient governance.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Improved Decision Making: Facilitates informed choices through clear architecture representation.
Process Optimization: Streamlines operations leveraging capability mapping.
Accessibility for Stakeholders: Simplifies architectural insights for all involved parties.
Enhanced Governance: Supports enterprise-wide oversight and documentation management.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon serves industries focused on enterprise architecture, aiding in project governance and application portfolio management. Organizations in sectors like finance, manufacturing, and IT leverage it to align architectural elements with business goals, centralize architecture data, and optimize processes for better decision-making and oversight.

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Sample Customers

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

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