OrbusInfinity Alternatives: Selection Criteria
According to its vendor, OrbusInfinity is a SaaS platform with a diagram editor in the browser, a Visio add-in, publication to SharePoint and Power BI dashboards. An alternative should be judged on your environment, data hosting, the people who contribute and the migration of your models.
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The question to ask
An architecture team looks for a tool that links strategy, applications, technologies and transformation in one repository. OrbusInfinity, published by Orbus Software, is one of the options on the market, with close links to several Microsoft tools.
When evaluating an alternative, the useful question concerns your environment, your teams’ language and your hosting constraints.
What Orbus highlights
Orbus describes several functions that matter to an organisation already equipped with Microsoft tools.
- A diagram editor in the browser, with version control.
- A Visio add-in to model against the repository and sync changes back.
- Import of Visio files, with objects and relationships extracted.
- Publication of diagrams to SharePoint and Power BI dashboards.
- Support for ArchiMate 3.2 and TOGAF 10, with templates for ArchiMate, TOGAF and BPMN.
- The announced integration of business architecture capabilities from Capsifi, acquired in December 2024.
Where OrbusInfinity keeps the advantage
In some contexts, changing tools creates avoidable friction.
- Your architects model in Visio and your diagrams need to stay in that format.
- Your architecture artefacts and their review live in SharePoint.
- Your teams expect the repository to extend their Microsoft tools.
Reasons to look at an alternative
Other needs can weigh more than Microsoft integration.
- Hosting requirements: data region, the vendor’s subprocessors, deployment on your own premises.
- Screens in French or German for business units, compliance and auditors.
- A licensing model that allows many contributors and readers to take part.
- A repository where each object has an owner and each decision its reasoning.
The profile ArchiLU is designed for
ArchiLU does not replace OrbusInfinity in every context. It is designed for organisations, often regulated and established in the European Union, that want the whole company to contribute to a governed repository.
- One dedicated instance per organisation, hosted in the European Union; deployment on your infrastructure as an optional service, quoted separately.
- Screens, tasks and help in French, English and German.
- Unlimited users, readers included.
- A Microsoft Entra ID connection that retrieves the applications in your directory, their vendors and their owners.
- A trial instance in service within two working days.
Questions to settle before changing
A move away from OrbusInfinity is decided on fit, not on a feature list.
- How far your practice depends on Visio and SharePoint.
- How much your hosting and language requirements weigh against Microsoft integration.
- Whether your regulators’ requirements on data location are firm or preferred.
- The number of people who need to use the tool.
Frequently asked questions
- Why look for an alternative to OrbusInfinity?
- Because a need weighs more than Microsoft integration: specific hosting requirements, screens in the teams’ language, broad participation, named owners and traceable decisions.
- Is OrbusInfinity an established architecture tool?
- Orbus Software presents OrbusInfinity as its enterprise transformation platform, with a diagram editor in the browser, a Visio add-in, publication to SharePoint and Power BI dashboards. Whether it fits should be checked on your files and with your teams.
- When is OrbusInfinity the most natural choice?
- When your architects model in Visio, your diagrams are reviewed in SharePoint and your teams expect a repository close to those tools.
- How do you choose between OrbusInfinity and an alternative?
- Base the choice on your environment, your hosting constraints, your teams’ language and the number of contributors. Then test each tool on the same real domain: a few diagrams, their applications and their providers.