Bizzdesign

Bizzdesign is a Dutch enterprise architecture and BPM SaaS platform vendor, founded in 2000 by Henry Franken, Harmen van den Berg and Harm Bakker,^[2] and is known for the co-development of ArchiMate and the development Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio, formerly BiZZdesign Architect,^[3] the first tool that supported ArchiMate.^[4][5]

Bizzdesign

Company type	Private
Industry	Enterprise architecture, Business process management, Business Architecture, Security Architecture, Application Portfolio Management
Founded	2000[1]
Headquarters	Enschede, Netherlands.
Area served	Netherlands, Germany, France, Central & Eastern Europe, North America, United Kingdom.
Key people	Henry Franken, Harmen van den Berg, Harm Bakker (founders)
Products	Bizzdesign Horizzon Platform
Website	www.bizzdesign.com

Inception

Bizzdesign started as spin-off from a research project (1996-2001) to develop a test environment for business processes, originated by the Telematica Instituut^[6] (now Novay) in cooperation with partners such as the IBM, the Dutch Pension Fund APG, Tax and Customs Administration, and the ING Group.^[1]

In 2016 the company presented the new variation of the software called Bizzdesign Enterprise studio ^[7]

In 2024 the software is still often listed in top-10 of Enterprise Architecture tools according to different reports^[8][9][10]

See also

• ArchiMate
• BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio