BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs IDERA ER/Studio comparison

BiZZdesign and IDERA are both solutions in the Enterprise Architecture Management category. BiZZdesign is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while IDERA is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.6. BiZZdesign holds a 5.3% mindshare in AM, compared to IDERA’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of BiZZdesign users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of IDERA users who would recommend it.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

IDERA ER/Studio and BiZZdesign HoriZZon are prominent tools in the data management and enterprise architecture solutions categories, respectively. IDERA ER/Studio holds an advantage in database-focused operations with features catering specifically to database management tasks, while BiZZdesign HoriZZon excels in enterprise architecture with strong modeling capabilities.

Features: IDERA ER/Studio provides robust graphical capabilities, reverse engineering functions for legacy database analysis, and tools for consistent builds and object creation. It supports extensive automation and database integration. BiZZdesign HoriZZon focuses on enterprise architecture with comprehensive modeling using standards like ArchiMate and BPMN. It offers seamless language integration and collaborative features via its HoriZZon platform, featuring dashboards and stakeholder views.

Room for Improvement: IDERA ER/Studio faces issues with cumbersome deployment and licensing processes, inadequate documentation, and suboptimal repository performance. BiZZdesign HoriZZon could enhance its user interface and integration capabilities. Its pricing, licensing complexity, documentation, and customer support also require refinement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IDERA ER/Studio primarily supports on-premises deployment, which limits flexibility compared to BiZZdesign HoriZZon that leverages public cloud environments for improved accessibility and scalability. IDERA's technical support is mixed, being both responsive and occasionally slow. BiZZdesign HoriZZon is known for supportive customer service, yet it is not flawless. Both products offer reliable support with varying consistency.

Pricing and ROI: IDERA ER/Studio's pricing is high, reflecting its extensive features and complex licensing process. BiZZdesign HoriZZon is considered expensive but justifiable, offering license types for diverse organizational needs. Both products deliver positive ROI, with IDERA providing competitive pricing for database functionalities and BiZZdesign's costs better suited to enterprise architectural planning tasks.

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Categories and Ranking

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (9th)

IDERA ER/Studio

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 5.3%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA ER/Studio is 4.0%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
BiZZdesign HoriZZon	5.3%
IDERA ER/Studio	4.0%
Other	90.7%

Enterprise Architecture Management

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BijoyTalukder

Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

Helps to get a clear overview of our enterprise architecture, especially when dealing with multiple departments

One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs. While the platform offers REST APIs, they have limitations when it comes to retrieving and exporting data. Obtaining detailed information at the individual application or component level, including IDs, costs, and deployment-related data, can be challenging through these APIs. This limitation makes it difficult to smoothly export such granular data. I have raised this issue with the BiZZdesign team, and they expressed interest in addressing it, but I'm not aware of the current status of this improvement effort. Nonetheless, improving the usability and flexibility of the REST APIs for data extraction is an area that could enhance the platform's capabilities.

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Aaron Cutshall

Enterprise Data Architect & Senior Manager at Health First Inc.

Used for data modeling and has a scripting language to write your own scripts

The solution has streamlined our data modeling processes quite a bit. It's a central focus in our data modeling and data cataloging efforts. The tool's reverse engineering capability to bring in existing database structures and create models from them has benefitted our data architecture needs. With the tool's data dictionary capability, we're able to maintain consistency in our models, name use, and actual data domains. The solution's reverse engineering helps with understanding legacy databases. In fact, I've been asked to reverse-engineer several more legacy databases so that we can have them modeled and cataloged. The solution is deployed on the cloud server, but it’s only within our network. The solution has a lot of capabilities. I like the fact that it has a scripting language that allows you to automate and write your own scripts. I think that's been a big bonus for us. I highly recommend the solution because of its capability for logical models, where you can put your business definitions and logic. While less expensive, some other tools can't do that. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable features are the application, portfolio, data, architectures, and modeling things."

"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."

"The initial setup of this solution was very straightforward."

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"The data modeling module is important to me because I am a database developer and designer... It's very fast, reliable, up-to-date, so easy to use, smooth."

"We have been able to quickly create models for our enterprise-wide databases, even when some of them are third-party databases."

"My overall rating for the solution is ten out of ten."

"We are able to document the data lineage and data flows of our data from one system to another."

"ER/Studio is excellent for large teams; it scales well to teams of over one hundred plus people."

"The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer."

"It's much easier to develop the database structure and change it on the fly, rather than doing it manually in SQL Server itself. That saves time."

"Using this product has improved the way we maintain our models because they have a place where we can keep all of them, and they can be viewed using the web interface."

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Cons

"It lacks capabilities with regard to infrastructure modeling."

"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."

"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 could be simpler modelling."

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

"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."

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

"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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"The solution is not so strong at creating modeling views and database views."

"What needs the most improvement are semantic lineage and usability."

"The solution could be sped up, as it is a little slow (e.g., when it's doing its database compare)."

"We did have a big issue when we upgraded to the 2016 version. The Team Server portion never did quite install correctly, and/or the database was corrupted, and we never figured it out."

"What I would like to see improved is the reliability of the releases, releases that are a little less buggy."

"The only thing I had an issue with was licensing, and the support was very good."

"The model diagram because very clumsy when you save it on the team server and the models are very big."

"ER/Studio lacks a pure cloud option for deployment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"[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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The price is reasonable."

"I am currently using the trial version, but this solution is definitely worth considering for the price point."

"The price of this product is okay."

"The product is pricey."

"The setup cost may have been around $1500 to $2000."

"I feel the product's pricing is a good value."

"The process of licensing could be much simpler, from our experience."

"Pricing is on point, but do your due diligence - not every developer needs the tool."

"I'm a firm believer that all software is overpriced these days but, comparatively speaking, I think ER/Studio is worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	25

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

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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What needs improvement with BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

There is room for improvement in BiZZdesign HoriZZon. It's quite robust and has good online forums where people discuss it, though maybe the interface can improve, but I don't want to criticize it ...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

The typical use case with BiZZdesign HoriZZon is basically for enterprise architecture and also for business process modeling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IDERA ER Studio?

In terms of pricing, ER/Studio is slightly more expensive compared to Erwin, by about five to ten percent.

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What is your primary use case for IDERA ER Studio?

I have been working with data modeling tools. Personally, I have been working with Erwin for many years now. ER/Studio is something I am currently trying to evaluate for acquiring it for our organi...

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What advice do you have for others considering IDERA ER Studio?

I would strongly recommend ER/Studio for large teams. Erwin is a very stable product, but for smaller teams, it's okay. If I had to rate ER/Studio, I would give it nine out of ten because the absen...

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Also Known As

HoriZZon

IDERA ER Studio, ER/Studio, ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition

Overview

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

IDERA ER/Studio is a powerful suite for business-driven data modeling that enables companies to create an enterprise architecture foundation for data governance. With round-trip support for multiple database platforms, data architects have the power to reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases easily from diverse platforms. Data professionals can easily capture and share models, metadata, data sources, and glossaries across the organization for improved alignment between the organization and Information Technology. Organizational stakeholders can take part in the metadata definition workflow and access information on models and metadata at the right level for their needs.

Unlike its competition, it provides the broadest range of data platform support, industry-leading enterprise-level capabilities, visual data lineage and flow modeling, full dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence, and business data objects to bridge the gap between developers and data architects. It also provides a complete solution for enterprise architecture and data governance, extensive model change management, unique incorporation of true enterprise data dictionaries, unique linking of constructs across models, integrated visual data lineage import, and integrated data and business process modeling.

IDERA

Sample Customers

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

Newmont Mining, Entrust, Accolade, TalkTalk, Catalina, Protective Life, NTT Data, dir systèmes, Microsoft; American Express, Astellas Pharma, AstraZeneca, Coriant, Fedex, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, Prudential, Wells Fargo

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