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Bizzdesign Product Roadmap Update

Bizzdesign Product Roadmap Update

March 2026

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All sessions from the latest Bizzdesign Product Roadmap Update webinar are now available on-demand. Watch updates on Bizzdesign Unify, Bizzdesign Alfabet, Bizzdesign Hopex, and Bizzdesign Horizzon at your convenience.

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Bizzdesign Connect 2026
Bizzdesign Connect 2026

Lead the Intelligent Transformation Revolution

Survive or Thrive? Why Strategic Planning Defines Success in Business and IT Transformation

Survive or Thrive? Why Strategic Planning Defines Success in Business and IT Transformation

If there’s one thing on the minds of most business leaders today, it’s uncertainty. From the rise of AI to geopolitical instability and shifting trade dynamics, leaders face growing pressure to respond boldly and act with clarity. According to KPMG’s AI Q3 2025 Pulse Survey, 82% of executives expect their industry to undergo significant changes within the next two years.

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Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) is the practice of connecting business strategy to the portfolios of work, technology, and investments that deliver it. It helps organizations understand where resources are going, how projects align with strategic goals, and whether change efforts are delivering measurable business outcomes.

Transformation plans typically fail because they’re built on incomplete or disconnected information. Large enterprises have multiple systems, teams, and priorities operating in parallel, resulting in fragmented decision-making and unclear accountability. Without a unified view of dependencies and progress, it’s almost inevitable to lose momentum in execution.

Bizzdesign Alfabet provides a connected view of an organization’s entire IT and business landscape. It helps leaders link strategy to execution by mapping applications, technologies, and investments to business outcomes. With capabilities like AI-supported portfolio analysis, executive-ready reporting, and lean portfolio management, it enables faster, evidence-based decisions and higher return on transformation investments.

 
 

When Enterprise Transformation Moves in Flow

When Enterprise Transformation Moves in Flow

Nov 12, 2025 - Arjan Vork - Leadership
Abstract glass spheres representing connected, balanced enterprise transformation.

Today’s business landscape is moving faster than ever and in more directions at once. Strategic priorities shift. Market dynamics accelerate. Emerging technologies challenge established norms while exposing new opportunities. Regulatory landscapes are evolving alongside growing economic uncertainty. And yet, the path forward remains more complex than ever.

That’s why leading organizations are building enterprise architecture (EA) and transformation capabilities into the core of how they operate — to anticipate change, align decisions, and move with greater sped and certainty. As Chief Customer Officer at Bizzdesign, I’ve had countless conversations with CIOs, Chief Transformation Officers, and enterprise architects; I hear a constant theme: they don’t need another siloed solution. They need a clearer, more connected way to align strategy and execution. They want transformation that flows.

That’s exactly what the new Bizzdesign is here to enable.

From Three Leaders to One Vision for Enterprise Transformation

This year Bizzdesign, MEGA International, and Alfabet have come together as one company, bringing together decades of leadership across enterprise architecture, strategic portfolio management, and governance, risk and compliance. We now provide a comprehensive foundation for enterprise transformation grounded in decades of leadership, designed to empower organizations to see, shape, and steer change across their entire business.

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Bizzdesign was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools, marking its 18th consecutive year in the Leaders quadrant. This recognition reflects nearly two decades of innovation in the enterprise architecture market. Bizzdesign continues to strengthen its offering through increased investment in product development, expanded global reach, and AI-driven innovation, helping organizations bridge the strategy-to-execution gap with greater speed and confidence.

Bizzdesign’s solutions span Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and more. They provide the only true end-to-end enterprise transformation offering, supporting the full journey from strategy to execution. With integrated AI, Bizzdesign helps organizations make smarter investments, strengthen governance, manage risk effectively, and deliver measurable outcomes.

In 2025, MEGA and Alfabet came together with Bizzdesign under one brand. Their products, expertise, and resources are now fully integrated into Bizzdesign. Customers looking for MEGA or Alfabet solutions will find them on bizzdesign.com. To protect customer investments, Bizzdesign will maintain individual product roadmaps for the next five to seven years, while continuing to innovate on new industry-leading products.

 

The State of Enterprise Architecture 2025

The State of Enterprise Architecture 2025

See how top-performing organizations turn strategy into results.

The State of Enterprise Architecture 2025 Bizzdesign

Discover the Advantage of Mature Enterprise Architecture Practices

Struggling to turn big-picture plans into real-world results? 
You’re not alone. 

The State of Enterprise Architecture 2025 reveals how organizations with mature EA practices have deeper insights into their capabilities, invest more strategically, and can better share enterprise architecture information across the organization.
 

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How Leading Organizations Elevate Business Value With EA

This 5th edition of the State of EA report gives you actionable benchmarks and proven practices to gain deeper insight into your capabilities by seeing how industry leaders map capabilities to strategy for smarter, more informed decisions. Learn how enterprise architecture–driven organizations prioritize investments by aligning funding with business value, ensuring greater impact. Understand the most common roadblocks to execution and how to overcome them effectively. Finally, discover how mature EA teams are taking the lead in IT sustainability and staying ahead with green IT initiatives.

Key findings in this year's report:

  • EA leaders have 1.8x better visibility into processes & information and are better at analyzing capability gaps.  
  • 47% of leaders prioritize strategic insights to senior management, highlighting EA’s evolving business focus.
  • 39% of leaders prioritize investment in EA resources, recognizing their critical role in driving agility and insight.

Download your copy to benchmark your organization and discover the trends, challenges, and strategies shaping enterprise architecture.

 

Empower Everyone with AI-Driven Access to Enterprise Data

Empower Everyone with AI-Driven Access to Enterprise Data

Oct 31, 2025 - Yannick Rudloff - AI in Enterprise Architecture & Transformation
Person using a smartphone to access information, representing simple, user-friendly access to enterprise data

Explore how Bizzdesign applies Model Context Protocol (MCP) to bring natural language queries to your EA data.

If you needed to know which applications deliver the most value, how transformation is progressing, or where your biggest risks lie, how long would it take? 

For enterprise architects, the answers already live in the enterprise architecture (EA) repository. For others across the business, they're often locked behind tools, formats, or language that make it harder to access.

That's what we set out to change.

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that defines a structured interface through which AI applications can interact with enterprise systems and data sources, as exposed by MCP servers.

In the context of enterprise architecture, MCP allows authorized users to ask questions in natural language through AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude. Those tools translate the request into structured queries against governed EA models. This makes it possible for business and technology stakeholders to explore applications, processes, capabilities, risks, and dependencies directly from the architecture repository, without needing deep architectural expertise. 

MCP enables AI to reason over complex enterprise contexts and insights, not just retrieve data. By linking AI assistants to governed EA data, teams can instantly surface dependencies, risks, and progress across applications, processes, and capabilities. This gives business and IT roles access to the same trusted, structured enterprise intelligence, helping them make confident, evidence-based decisions. 

MCP makes architectural intelligence accessible beyond the EA team. Business analysts, product owners, transformation leads, and other authorized users can interact with the enterprise model through AI without needing deep EA expertise.
It gives them secure, real-time access to trusted enterprise insights through the AI tools they already use, helping teams find answers and make decisions in seconds.

Behind the scenes, MCP is the enabler that connects data, AI, and people. It drastically scales the EA team’s strategic impact by reducing manual work, streamlining repetitive requests, and getting valuable insight into the hands of those who need it across the business.

MCP provides AI with direct access to enterprise architecture models, including applications, processes, capabilities, risks, and their relationships. Instead of inferring context from documents or dashboards, AI can query the architecture as a structured, governed system and evaluate dependencies, governance rules, and impact across the enterprise.

 

Tata Steel Nederland: Strategic Tech Investments For a Sustainable Future   

Tata Steel Nederland: Strategic Tech Investments For a Sustainable Future   

Challenges

  • Investments required for CO2-neutral steel production. 

  • Balancing IT with manufacturing asset upgrades. 

  • Legacy technology and coupled applications complicate changes. 

  • Mainframe and customized software systems. 

  • High maintenance costs for stability and security. 

Results

  • Cost-effective landscape aligned with goals. 

  • Mapping current and desired states for planning. 

  • Consistent data visualization enhances collaboration. 

  • Future-proofing with capability-based planning. 

 
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Tata Steel Nederland (TSN), part of the renowned Tata Group, is a global leader in sustainable steel production and is recognized as a Steel Sustainability Champion. Despite the high volume of production, reducing their impact on the living environment is TSN's top priority and their ambition is to radically transform their business over the next two decades.
 

Country Netherlands
Industry Automotive and Construction

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Bizzdesign Horizzon

Bridging the Strategy-to-Execution Gap with Enterprise Transformation

Bridging the Strategy-to-Execution Gap with Enterprise Transformation

Oct 16, 2025 - Bert van der Zwan - Leadership
Strategy to Execution Gap Enterprise Transformation

When it comes to digital transformation, progress is still a steep climb for many. Recent studies show that 88% of transformation fall short of their ambitions while only a quarter of organizations qualify their efforts as truly successful. [1]

But after decades of investment, why is real impact still so rare? The answer lies in a persistent gap between strategy and execution. McKinsey research indicates that even high-performing companies deliver around 30% less value than their strategies promise. [2]

Why Transformations Fail 

When there's a disconnect between strategy and execution, it often stems from lacking a unified view of the organization, leading to fragmented decisions and lost value.