Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Jorgen Mellink 
When you ask any Enterprise Architect what their number one goal is, they often respond that it’s to optimize the architecture to support organizational change. Our enterprise architecture platform is geared toward doing this: Bizzdesign Horizzon helps organizations thrive through change. In line with our mission, we’ve recently added a Data Contribution feature to our…
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been on a mission to interview almost a thousand Solution Architects. Bizzdesign has experienced a growth in Solutions Architects using our platform, and I wanted to discover how we could connect Solutions Architecture to Enterprise Architecture to design better solutions. A day in the life: Solutions Architect During…
Today, we are honored and excited to announce a new external investor in Bizzdesign: Main Capital Partners (“Main”). With a keen focus on investing in B2B SaaS companies, we’re confident that Main is a natural fit to help us accelerate our strategic growth strategy. With Main by our side, we can further sharpen our focus…
Being a solution architect is simultaneously one of the most fulfilling and challenging positions in the software development lifecycle. You serve as the bridge that connects everything together. You must champion customer expectations, acknowledge and support the development team’s needs, and be aware of overarching enterprise architectures and strategies. Sure, that sounds easy. You are…
Bizzdesign is excited to announce we’re recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor for 2022 in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Architecture tools. Everyone here at Bizzdesign is particularly honored to receive this distinction since it comes from our customers — the people we’re here to serve. Peer reviews, in our…
Bizzdesign’s 2022 state of enterprise architecture report revealed a gulf between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ of organizational agility. We explore four correlations between the maturity of organizations’ enterprise architecture practices and the ability to support the change and innovation needed to thrive. The Speed of Change Imperative The last two years of COVID disruption have…
So far in our blog series, the capability models we’ve used are relatively simple in terms of their structure. In our previous blog post on capability measurement, we already promised to provide more detail on how you can model capabilities over time and how to describe different instances. In larger organizations, the same business capability…
We feel comfortable collaborating with our peers and other technology professionals because this has always been part of the traditional role of an Enterprise Architect. Today, our roles have changed. The digital age demands a new approach in that we need to communicate with a growing network of collaborators. Enterprise Architecture has become a strategic…
Bizzdesign recently launched an application for ServiceNow, titled Bizzdesign Integration for ServiceNow, available in the ServiceNow Store. In this blog post, we want to give you some more background. As you can imagine, there are many use cases for the integration between a platform for IT service and asset management and operations (ServiceNow) and a…
ArchiMate is the modeling language of choice for most enterprise architects. When ArchiMate is communicated to a business audience, however, the default visualization is often perceived as too technical. To solve this, Bizzdesign is creating alternative ways of visualizing ArchiMate models, such as the Metro Map. The new Metro Map view visualizes dataflow or processes…
As we explained in our previous blog on capability assessment, to effectively assess Capabilities and execute Capability-Based Planning, we need to define three dimensions: Strategic Importance, Capability Maturity, and Adaptability, and measure them. Simply put, the first dimension lets you prioritize those capabilities that are most important to your enterprise; the second focuses on where…
Capability-Based Planning activities are structured in a cycle: Map, assess, plan, and control. It shows us where to begin and the next steps to gradually increase the impact on the organization. Read more in our whitepaper: “How Business Architecture contributes to successful strategy execution”. In the “Map” phase, we define and create the Capability Map,…