ArchiLU or Bizzdesign: Criteria for Comparing
Bizzdesign, a Dutch vendor, brings together Horizzon, Hopex, Alfabet and Unify and reports more than 2,000 enterprise customers. ArchiLU is published in Luxembourg. The comparison concerns the product in the suite that meets your need.
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Bizzdesign in brief
Bizzdesign is a Dutch vendor. Following the acquisition of MEGA International in 2024 and the addition of Alfabet in January 2025, its suite comprises Bizzdesign Horizzon, Bizzdesign Hopex, Bizzdesign Alfabet and, since April 2026, Bizzdesign Unify. The vendor reports more than 2,000 enterprise customers.
Horizzon supports modelling in ArchiMate, C4, BPMN, ERD and UML. Hopex connects business, IT, risk and data, with solutions for architecture, portfolio, processes, data and GRC. In September 2025, Bizzdesign announced that it would maintain each product’s roadmap for five to seven years.
ArchiLU in brief
ArchiLU is enterprise architecture software published in Luxembourg by MIP-IT SARL. Its repository links capabilities, value streams, processes, applications, technologies, providers and contracts; each object can have an owner, and objects without one remain visible.
It brings the application portfolio, the DORA chain, architecture documents and the board, and the cost of processes into the same repository, across four plans. Each organisation has its own instance, hosted in the European Union; deployment on your premises is available as an option, on quotation.
Choosing the point of comparison
With a suite of several products, first compare the product that meets your need: formal modelling, application portfolio, GRC. A comparison with the whole suite mixes uses you may not buy.
For each use, write down the users, objects and reports expected, then check them in the relevant Bizzdesign product and in ArchiLU.
Notations and ArchiMate version
Horizzon supports several notations, including ArchiMate, C4 and UML. ArchiLU displays landscapes in ArchiMate, organised by ArchiMate 4 domain, and draws processes in BPMN. If your teams model in UML or C4, include that need in the comparison.
The Open Group publishes a register of ArchiMate 3 certified tools, which lists Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio and Horizzon as well as Bizzdesign Hopex. ArchiMate 4 was published on 27 April 2026: ask each vendor which version it supports.
Ownership, decisions and AI
In ArchiLU, the designated person accepts or declines the designation when your rules require it; the board keeps each decision with its reason and the version of the document reviewed. AI reads the context available to its user, and the administrator can forbid it for a person or a role.
Run the same steps in each tool, with your data: assign an owner, have a board decide, let an AI act with a person’s permissions.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the difference between ArchiLU and Bizzdesign?
- Bizzdesign offers a suite of four products, including Horizzon for modelling and Hopex for architecture, data and GRC. ArchiLU is a single repository, published in Luxembourg, in which each object can have an owner and the board keeps its decisions. The difference shows on your uses.
- Which Bizzdesign product should we compare with ArchiLU?
- The one that meets your main need, for example Horizzon for modelling or Hopex for coverage that includes GRC. Then compare the same uses in ArchiLU.
- How do we compare the two tools on our case?
- With the same data and the same tests: a designated owner who accepts or declines, a board decision with its reason, an AI acting with a person’s permissions, then a full export.