BiZZdesign HoriZZon vs No Magic MagicDraw comparison

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BiZZdesign and Dassault Systèmes are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. BiZZdesign is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1, while Dassault Systèmes is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0. BiZZdesign holds a 2.8% mindshare in BPD, compared to Dassault Systèmes’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of BiZZdesign users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Dassault Systèmes users who would recommend it.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

No Magic MagicDraw and BiZZdesign HoriZZon compete in the modeling and enterprise architecture field. BiZZdesign HoriZZon is often considered superior due to its comprehensive features, while MagicDraw offers higher satisfaction in pricing and support.

Features: No Magic MagicDraw is noted for its extensive modeling capabilities across UML, SysML, and BPMN. It allows for complex system integrations and customizations. Additionally, it provides robust support for model-based systems engineering and enhanced simulation features. BiZZdesign HoriZZon stands out in enterprise architecture management, offering data integration, business architecture modeling, and ArchiMate compliance. Its dashboards provide quick insights for management, and it supports comprehensive cross-model relations.

Room for Improvement: No Magic MagicDraw could improve by enhancing its collaboration tools and providing smoother integration with non-UML tools. Additionally, more flexible licensing options could cater to various user needs. BiZZdesign HoriZZon could benefit from a more streamlined deployment process and simplified user interface for non-architects. Expanding on its native out-of-the-box integrations and enhancing the speed of performance would improve user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: MagicDraw offers a user-friendly deployment process and reliable customer support, allowing for quick setup. However, large teams may face challenges in achieving optimal collaboration. BiZZdesign HoriZZon, while featuring a more complex deployment, provides thorough guidance and superior customer service, ensuring smooth implementation in enterprise environments. Its detailed user guidance compensates for deployment complexity.

Pricing and ROI: MagicDraw provides a lower initial setup cost and quicker return on investment due to its pricing model and ease of deployment. Although BiZZdesign HoriZZon requires a higher setup investment, it delivers significant long-term ROI by leveraging its advanced enterprise-focused features. The return on investment is bolstered by its comprehensive suite of functionalities that justify the higher cost.

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Categories and Ranking

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Business Process Design

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (4th)

No Magic MagicDraw

Ranking in Business Process Design

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of No Magic MagicDraw is 2.5%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BiZZdesign HoriZZon	2.8%
No Magic MagicDraw	2.5%
Other	94.7%

Business Process Design

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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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reviewer2080611

System Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Ease of use and real-time collaboration empower effective teamwork and streamlined development

For CAMEO, it's not only the ease of use, it's versatility, its communicability, but Rhapsody is the worst tool I've ever used. It is very difficult, not user-friendly, and very expensive. It works only with its IBM counterparts. SPARX Enterprise Architecture is very easy to use, but it's limited. It gives you an idea of how your model is developing, so this feature helps maintain integrity or correctness of system models. It's really a good feature to have. You've got to have the simulation toolkit installed to be able to do that, and that works really well. The MagicDraw or CAMEO system is good on its own, but it should be integrated and should come out of the box with the simulation toolkit because there are some things you can't do without it, making it very difficult to have to look for another license to be able to do that. I would prefer that it come with the simulation toolkit.

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Pros

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon is a fantastic tool for enterprise architecture and capability mapping that helps map capabilities by turning complex engineering data into clear design documents, which is very important for cross-functional alignment and onboarding teams so they can onboard faster and it acts as a single source of truth."

"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."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon has positively impacted our organization by providing a combination of dependency visibility, impact analysis, and stakeholder-friendly visualization, which differentiates it from maintaining architecture information in spreadsheets or static diagrams."

"The enterprise studio where the modelling happens is valuable."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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"I alone can maintain all architecture documentation for a larger project as well as for one or two selected systems."

"My advice to anybody who is designing complex projects, like defense projects or space projects, is that they have to use this program or one like it."

"The most valuable feature of No Magic MagicDraw is the simulation capabilities and interface."

"It is very user-friendly, and the customer service is really good."

"There is a lot of documentation available on the Internet to understand its functionality."

"The most valuable features are the visibility, standard compliance, and interface."

"When you look at it, No Magic is an all-encompassing tool. You can use it for business architecture design. You can use it for deploying an ERP system across your enterprise. However, it was initially designed and developed for model-based systems engineering. That's the systems engineering required to either produce an IP system or product. It takes away the mounds of paper and puts it into a model. It enables you to generate significant savings by modeling that new product or that system before you ever start developing a prototype."

"No Magic MagicDraw provides a lot of good features on functionality."

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Cons

"The visibility of things and the user experience in HoriZZon are horrible."

"It takes a long time to learn and understand, which is a learning curve you have to go through, but once you know how it works, it's very nice to work with."

"The ability to generate charts and deal with a use case involving Kibana was quite difficult."

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

"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."

"Customer support for BiZZdesign HoriZZon could be better. On a 1 to 5 scale, I would rate it a 3.5."

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

"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."

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"The cost of upgrading the product should be lower."

"They don't really support code engineering, and that's why we have to move to Enterprise Architect. MagicDraw is stuck at C++03 standards, whereas most C++ programs today want to use the latest definition of the C++ standards. We were at C++11, and we wanted to do code engineering with C++11 or 17, but they didn't support it. That pushed us into a different tool, which is Sparx Enterprise Architect."

"They don't really support code engineering, and that's why we have to move to Enterprise Architect."

"It would be better if the User Interface were updated. At the moment, it's a classic environment. It reminds me of the old Windows interface, for example, Windows 95. It would be better to make it more user-friendly. It would also be better if it could integrate with SAP solutions. It isn't easy to find experts in the field. It's hard to find people around the globe that have the necessary skills and expertise to manage this solution. For example, in our case, we needed someone with refrigeration knowledge that also knew how to use the tool, and that was a challenge. We also had issues relating to erasing. Sometimes, it kept it in the background and didn't erase it at all. We had to review the entire list to ensure that the item was deleted."

"For the next releases, I would like to have them import requirements from other sources. They could make it very easy to do that because there are a lot requirements management tools like DOORS, D-O-O-R-S, Dynamic Object Oriented Management. A lot of folks use DOORS to create a requirement. For those requirements you allocate them to a component in the architecture and a verification method for that requirement. It would be good if we could import those into MagicDraw as components so you don't have to manually do these things."

"There's lots of documentation. They process multiples of guides. They've got all kinds of guides and documentation out there, but it's kind of hard to find. There are a lot of videos. You can go to YouTube and find videos on how it's been used in different ways, but it just kind of scratches the surface."

"It's very focused on specific modern languages and it doesn't do necessarily general systems software engineering with diagrams. They should expand the diagram types for the languages."

"The MagicDraw or CAMEO system is good on its own, but it should be integrated and should come out of the box with the simulation toolkit because there are some things you can't do without it, making it very difficult to have to look for another license to be able to do that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is reasonable."

"[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."

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

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

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

"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..."

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

"I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. It is an expensive product compared to software for model-based system engineering."

"In addition to the initial cost, you have to pay annually for support in order to get the upgrades."

"I would say licensing would be anywhere from $3,500 to $6,500 per person or per seat (it's a per seat style license)."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis, and it's expensive."

"The price of No Magic MagicDraw could improve. The price of the solution is too expensive for smaller-sized companies. There should be a better pricing model."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

20%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

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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What needs improvement with No Magic MagicDraw?

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What is your primary use case for No Magic MagicDraw?

I deal with DOD lifecycle acquisition sorts of things as some of the main use cases currently, and I expect to continue using it for more than 25 years.

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What advice do you have for others considering No Magic MagicDraw?

I deal with model-based systems engineering tools, so I have experience with enterprise architecture management tools. I have experience with No Magic MagicDraw, as I deal with other solutions too....

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Also Known As

HoriZZon

MagicDraw

Overview

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.

BiZZdesign

No Magic MagicDraw is a powerful modeling tool recognized for its flexibility and integration capabilities, especially suited for enterprise modeling and systems engineering. Featuring a user-friendly interface, it supports diverse modeling architectures with tools for testing and simulation.

Renowned for its compliance with OMG standards, No Magic MagicDraw excels in offering comprehensive modeling options that support model-based systems engineering. Its rich feature set enables digital model creation aimed at testing and simulation, backed by a strong suite of integration tools. The tool facilitates program management integration with systems engineering, making it suitable for complex enterprise projects. However, suggestions for improvement include a redesign for a more intuitive interface and enhanced documentation. Licensing costs are higher compared to competitors, and integration requests include compatibility with SAP and modern C++ standards.

What are the most important features of No Magic MagicDraw?

Flexibility: Adapts to different modeling needs and architectures with ease.
User-friendly Interface: Simplifies access and usage for modeling tasks.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with tools like Doors.
Standard Compliance: Aligns with OMG standards.
Traceability: Maintains visibility across project changes.

What benefits and ROI should users expect from No Magic MagicDraw?

Comprehensive Support: Access to excellent technical support.
Enhanced Collaboration: Facilitates model-driven documentation and teamwork.
Strategic Efficiency: Streamlines processes, reducing time in business transformation projects.

No Magic MagicDraw is widely deployed for tasks including business transformation, system architecture modeling, and supporting defense programs, proving invaluable in enterprise and system modeling. It aids in strategy integration, process design, and offers extensive features like simulations and lifecycle engineering.

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

Northrop Grumman, Labcorp, Deposco, ClearView Training, IT Services Promotion Agency, Intelligent Chaos, Metalithic Systems Inc., Sodifrance

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