BiZZdesign HoriZZon (Enterprise Studio) vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

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.

You need to have a Sparx EA go to person to help socialize the tool and ensure it is properly used (but again, this is true for most tools). IF a company is looking for a tool they can just buy an have people use they should stick to Visio because any true modeling tool requires expertise.

In an environment where you do not have a highly trained group of architects who are familiar with all the standards and strategies of modeling, Sparx EA , more than most tools, allows you to wrap user friendly menus,and windows around it to make it easier to use.

Incentivized

• Archimate support is as defined in the Archimate standard.

• Easy to get started
• Easy to share content
• It supports TOGAF and UML.

Incentivized

• 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.

• Enterprise Architect's user interface is outdated... It should be more fresh and clean

Incentivized

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.

The solution is well complemented by external addons from third parties.

Incentivized

BiZZdesign represents a different new concept to enterprise architecture, its gravity center is not technical modelling, but rather a view on capturing the whole end-user experience or customer journey. It also allows to grasp areas as internal company capabilities, required for adoption/changes and operation of the solution, uses the same Archimate modelling language. This solution is in my opinion a new generation enabling to not only design the solutions, but also manage the whole application portfolio with respect to capabilities and requirement parameters.

Incentivized

• We were not able to get much benefit from the tool. Some users and partner teams meanwhile moved on to other software.

• EA has provided a very positive impact on business understanding
• EA has allowed us to map clearly our physical and logical architecture, and to allow us to plan replacement systems and platforms

Incentivized