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 8.1, while IDERA is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0. BiZZdesign holds a 4.3% mindshare in AM, compared to IDERA’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of BiZZdesign users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% 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

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (13th)

IDERA ER/Studio

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 4.3%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA ER/Studio is 4.1%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management

Featured Reviews

Venkat Raju Mallipudi

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

Mar 26, 2024

Easy to implement, and it's reliable but restrictions in integration capabilities

Integration definitely needs improvement. There are some restrictions. We've seen that it doesn't integrate with everything we might expect. Out of ten products we want to integrate, maybe five or six integrate easily. The other four might face challenges due to lower investment in the products or compatibility issues. It's definitely not easy to achieve seamless integration for any product. We can only test to a certain extent, and issues could arise from either BiZZdesign HoriZZon or the other product. Another point is the cost of licenses. If they were a bit lower, it would be easier for businesses to acquire more licenses... something like an enterprise or bulk license model. Maybe different pricing tiers based on the number of licenses, like significant discounts for orders over one hundred. This could help clients adopt the product.

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Aaron Cutshall

Enterprise Data Architect & Senior Manager at Health First Inc.

Jun 17, 2024

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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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"t's a good tool. My colleagues that are making use of it for application, business processes, or data modeling, are very satisfied with it. They find it easy to use. The graphical representation is simple but therefore efficient, so I know that they are planning a very good commencement on the use of these tools."

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

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"We found a lot of duplication, a lot of non-conformity in the way our databases were designed. By identifying these situations, we're able to go back in and try to create a more standardized solution."

"The tool is simple to use."

"We can track changes to our data models and tie those changes back to specific tasks or efforts that we identify."

"The reverse engineering is the most important feature."

"It's easy to model and has a user-friendly interface. I like the team portal because, once we upload, the entire team can see the model."

"This application does a lot of things, as do competitor products, but the main reason to go with this product was the ability to create many automations, where we can improve our work and our process."

"The most important features are logical and physical models that we can compare and develop. Also, the Data Dictionary can be created out of your studio. Finally, database schemas help understand the logic that's behind the scene, behind the SQL tables. Especially when there are a lot of them, the schemas help everyone understand the business processes."

"It does the job."

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Cons

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

"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."

"We tested it, and we had support from BiZZdesign, including patches, but it just didn't do what we wanted."

"The automatic data collection and interface need improvement."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The visual presentation is a little too colorful and seems that it is dumbed down."

"The solution's reporting could be improved because the report writer is terrible."

"It isn't easy to compare the thousands of tables in the model against the database. The tool should improve the synchronization within the large organization"

"The screens are a bit outdated. They could use a new look and feel."

"When building the relationships there should be a little more flexibility."

"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

"The price is reasonable."

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

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

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

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

"At my previous company using ER/Studio, a database compare took four hours before using the product and 15 minutes after using the product."

"It is priced fairly. It's around the same as erwin and other competitors' costs."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is bad and ten is good, I would rate the licensing cost as a seven or eight. It's not too expensive for us."

"The price of this product is okay."

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

"The product is pricey."

"I use the product's trial version."

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Educational Organization

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

11%

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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?

The ability to generate charts and deal with a use case involving Kibana was quite difficult. We don't use the chart functionality much, and I think that is quite problematic at the moment. We have...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

I use the solution in my company for all sorts of things, like enterprise and solution architecture. As part of our design process, BiZZdesign HoriZZon is used for road mapping. We also use it for ...

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What do you like most about IDERA ER/Studio?

The tool is simple to use.

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

The solution’s pricing is high.

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What needs improvement with IDERA ER/Studio?

Since the solution was originally developed in the eighties and nineties and hasn't changed much since then, it could use an overhaul. The solution is not so strong at creating modeling views and d...

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HoriZZon

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

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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

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.

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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