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What is the best alternative to Google Slides for Enterprise Architecture? Discover the benefits of Boldo for companies looking to structure and future-proof their knowledge.
From vector drawing to true enterprise architecture
Google Slides
Google Slides is undeniably the global standard for office collaboration and creating visual presentations accessible to everyone. Its ease of use often makes it the first tool used to sketch processes or mappings. However, using it for enterprise architecture quickly reveals a critical limit: it is a static drawing tool rather than a modeling tool, disconnected from any database, making diagram maintenance unmanageable in the long run and data consistency impossible to guarantee.
Boldo transforms this approach by connecting visual flexibility to the rigor of a centralized repository. The platform allows you to design architecture views that stay always up-to-date and synchronized, while offering a user experience as fluid and collaborative as a consumer presentation tool, but dedicated to IT governance.
Move from vector drawing to intelligent modeling
While Google Slides offers total freedom to draw rectangles and arrows, every diagram remains an isolated image without structural intelligence. Modifying an application or a flow requires a tedious manual update on every slide where the element appears, multiplying the risks of errors and obsolescence.
Boldo anchors every visual object in a single repository. When an attribute is modified, all maps, diagrams, and analyses synchronize instantly, guaranteeing the consistency and reliability of architecture data without any manual graphic maintenance.
Structure knowledge without losing collaborative agility
While Google Slides excels in simultaneous editing, it imposes no modeling rules, leaving room for divergent graphic interpretations depending on the user. This lack of a standardized framework quickly turns documentation assets into a heterogeneous collection of drawings, difficult to use for impact analysis.
Boldo maintains the fluidity of real-time collaboration while backing it with an evolvable metamodel. Teams work together on standardized objects, ensuring that the documentation produced is not only readable, but analyzable and sustainable for the entire organization.
Transform static plans into interactive narratives
Google Slides presentations freeze information at a point in time, forcing architects to multiply slides to show different levels of detail or contexts. This linear and static approach does not allow for exploring complex dependencies or dynamically adapting the view based on the audience's questions.
Boldo reinvents reporting through its interactive storytelling features. Users can navigate from global context to technical detail in one click (drill-down), offering a depth of analysis impossible to reproduce on simple slides, while facilitating dialogue with business stakeholders.
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Designed for collaboration across all stakeholders
Architecture should not live in silos. With Boldo, business teams, IT and leadership work on the same views, in a shared and living workspace. Everyone explores, comments and aligns in real time. Architecture becomes a collective alignment tool, directly understood and adopted across the organization.
Built on European data sovereignty
Boldo is a French platform, with data hosted in Europe on Scaleway, a trusted sovereign cloud infrastructure. Your architecture repository stays fully under your control, in an environment designed to meet regulatory requirements. No ambiguity, no hidden dependencies: clear hosting, clear rules, full transparency.
A flexible metamodel that adapts to your reality
Every organization has its own constraints and maturity. Boldo relies on a flexible and evolving metamodel that adapts to your context instead of forcing a rigid framework. Start simple, enrich progressively, and let your architecture evolve at your own pace.
Visual storytelling at the core of the experience
In Boldo, diagramming is not an afterthought, it's the heart of the product. Views are intuitive, visually refined and immediately readable. Clear hierarchies, smooth navigation and embedded diagrams make architecture easy to grasp and easy to share, from executive committees to hands-on workshops.
Fair and transparent pricing
Boldo offers Pro and Team plans in self-service, with public and predictable per-user pricing. No opaque licenses, no hidden bundles, no constant renegotiation. From day one, you know what you pay, what you get, and how it scales.
We are here to drive adoption and value
Customer Success is central to our approach. We work closely with teams to build an architecture governance that is useful, alive and truly adopted. Responsive support, continuous exchanges and a long-term vision ensure architecture becomes a concrete decision-making asset, not a theoretical exercise.
Google Slides vs Boldo
| Google Slides | Boldo | |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Based on users | User and modelled asset packs |
| Price positioning | $ | $$$ |
| Free trial | ||
| Self-service offering | ||
| Enterprise offering | ||
User experience | ||
| Modern interface | ||
| Consistency across views | ||
| Time to implement | 1 to 3 weeks | ~ 1 to 6 weeks |
| Learning curve for architects | Very Fast | Very fast |
| Learning curve for business / C-level users | Very Fast | Very fast |
Collaboration | ||
| Access rights management | File level | Very fine grained (fields and relationships) |
| Real-time multi-user modelling | ||
| Comments linked to objects and views | ||
| Mentions and notifications | ||
| Object-level history and versioning | ||
Modelling | ||
| Custom object type creation | ||
| Object hierarchies | ||
| Custom properties per object type | ||
| Custom relationships | ||
| Process modelling | ||
| ArchiMate metamodel support | ||
| Framework-agnostic modelling | ||
Storytelling and visualisation | ||
| Dynamic views (auto-synchronised) | ||
| Nested maps and diagrams | ||
| Data visualisation | ||
| Auto-generated diagrams | ||
| Diagram in ""conception"" mode | ||
| Bi-directional data ↔ visuals synchronisation | ||
| Storytelling mode and scripted views | ||
| Multi-dimensional impact analysis | ||
Data and automation | ||
| Public API | ||
| Batch imports (CSV) | ||
| Native connectors | ||
| Data validation rules | (Q4 2026) | |
| Automatic triggers on changes | (Q4 2026) | |
| SaaS hosting | ||
| Sovereign hosting | ||
| On-premise hosting | ||
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