Architecture designed for all stakeholders
With Boldo, teams can view the same assets and reuse their data across multiple visualizations. Readers explore shared content, while editors contribute according to their roles and access domains.
Looking for an ABACUS (Avolution) alternative?
ABACUS and Boldo are two enterprise architecture platforms. Compare their documented capabilities to choose the one that fits your context.
ABACUS and Boldo: two scopes to compare
ABACUS (Avolution)
Description
ABACUS is an enterprise architecture platform developed by Avolution. It supports over 100 frameworks and standards, including TOGAF, ArchiMate, NIST and BPMN. It offers in-browser modelling, dashboards, no-code analytics, a REST API and several deployment modes.
Boldo organizes assets, their properties and their relationships in a shared knowledge base. The same data can be leveraged in views, diagrams, charts, nested maps and dashboards.
Key Features
Over 100 frameworks and standards
In-browser modelling and co-editing
No-code algorithms and analytics
REST API and integrations
Pros
Extensive framework library
No-code analytics and calculations
Cloud, on-premise or hybrid deployment
Cons
Pricing not published, on quote
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Reason #1
Simple and fast onboarding
ABACUS combines ABACUS Studio and ABACUS Enterprise in its Essentials and Premium offerings. Avolution also documents creating and editing models directly in the browser.
Boldo offers a single web interface to manage the inventory, the metamodel and the visualizations: online sign-up, 14-day free trial, no installation.
Reason #2
Make architecture a team sport
ABACUS lets you co-edit catalogs in real time, edit lists, diagrams and dashboards in the browser, and manage rights by roles.
Boldo offers real-time collaboration on diagrams and process flows, with built-in comments, mentions and notifications. Rights combine user type, role and access domain.
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Reason #3
Adapt the tool to your reality, not the other way around
ABACUS provides over 100 ready-to-use frameworks and notations, but also lets you combine them or configure your own metamodel.
Boldo lets administrators define asset types, their properties and relationship types. Metamodel changes remain governance decisions that must be prepared before being applied to existing data.
Boldo versus other EA solutions
Compare Boldo with 10+ other enterprise architecture modelling and mapping solutions.
Hosting in France
Boldo hosts data in France.
A flexible metamodel that adapts to your reality
Every organization is different. Boldo offers a flexible and evolving metamodel that adapts to your context, your constraints and your maturity level. You do not have to fit into a rigid framework: the model evolves with your organization, not the other way around.
Multiple visualizations from the same data
Boldo lets you present the same knowledge in several forms: views, diagrams, charts, nested maps and dashboards. Each format meets a different need, from detailed exploration to presenting indicators.
Public pricing
From €39 excl. VAT per editor/month, public pricing detailed on the pricing page, Enterprise on quote. Sign up online, with a 14-day free trial, no commitment.
ABACUS (Avolution) vs Boldo
| ABACUS (Avolution) | Boldo | |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Details provided on request | From €39 excl. VAT per editor/month (Enterprise on quote) |
| Free trial | Trial via 'Try ABACUS' | 14-day free trial, no commitment |
| Self-service purchase | Via sales contact | Online sign-up at app.boldo.io |
Collaboration | ||
| Access rights management | Roles and permissions | User types, roles and access domains |
| Real-time collaboration | Catalogs and web-based modelling | Diagrams and process flows |
Modelling | ||
| Ready-to-use frameworks | Over 100 frameworks and notations | Open metamodel, no ready-to-use library |
| ArchiMate support | Open modelling, no native ArchiMate notation | |
Visualisation | ||
| Diagram in draft mode | Documented modelling and whiteboard | Draft assets in diagrams |
Deployment | ||
| Deployment modes | Cloud, on-premise or hybrid | SaaS only |
| On-premise hosting | ||
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Description
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Key Features
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Survey Management
Compliance Reporting
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Pros
Configurable best-practice metamodel
Unlimited users depending on the published plan
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Cons
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Ardoq
Description
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Key Features
Dynamic knowledge graph
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API-driven automation
Intelligent data importer
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Pros
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Cons
Pricing not published, on quote
Horizzon
Description
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Key Features
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Strategic roadmaps
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Pros
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Views for multiple stakeholders
Cons
Pricing not published, on quote
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HOPEX
Description
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It connects enterprise architecture, data, risk, compliance and processes in a shared repository.
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Key Features
Unified EA/GRC/process repository
Deep data modelling
Application Portfolio Management (APM)
Regulatory compliance analysis
Automated workflows
Pros
Unified repository for EA, data, risk and processes
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Multi-dimensional impact analysis
Cons
Pricing not published, on quote
BlueDolphin
BlueDolphin is an enterprise architecture platform developed by ValueBlue. It helps organizations align strategy, business processes, information systems and data within a shared repository, with strong capabilities for current/target state modelling, impact analysis and stakeholder collaboration.
Pricing: details provided on request
Key Features
- Architecture repository
- Application portfolio management
- Impact analysis
- BPMN diagrams
- SmartViews synchronized with data
Pros
- Collaboration across architecture, IT and business
- Public API and integrations
- Visualizations linked to the repository
Cons
- Pricing not published, on quote
- SaaS-focused offering