Looking for a Miro alternative?
What is the best Miro alternative for structuring your Enterprise Architecture? Discover Boldo’s advantages for organizations seeking rigor and collaboration.
From digital whiteboard to Enterprise Repository
Miro
Miro has established itself as the go-to reference for collaborative whiteboarding, excelling at workshop facilitation and rapid idea capture. Its fluidity and total freedom win over teams for sketching diagrams. However, this purely graphical approach quickly reaches its limits in Enterprise Architecture: the lack of an underlying data repository turns every map into an isolated drawing, making maintenance labor-intensive and information consistency impossible to guarantee over the long term.
Boldo merges the intuitive user experience of a drawing tool with the power of a structured repository. Unlike a simple diagramming tool, Boldo allows you to model real objects (applications, processes, data) that are connected and reusable. Thus, a change to an object is automatically reflected across all views, ensuring a single source of truth without sacrificing ease of use.
Move from static drawings to living models
While Miro offers total creative freedom, every diagram remains a collection of disconnected geometric shapes. If an application changes name or status, the architect must manually find and update every occurrence across dozens of boards, creating a major risk of documentation obsolescence.
Boldo offers a data-centric approach. Every element drawn is an instance of a unique object stored in the database. Change an attribute in one place, and the information updates instantly across all mappings, ensuring perfect consistency with zero maintenance effort.
Structure information without the rigidity
While Miro's flexibility is an asset for brainstorming, it becomes a hurdle for governance: without rules, every user invents their own notation. The lack of a standardized metamodel makes it impossible to query the system or perform cross-functional impact analysis, limiting the tool to surface-level visualization.
Boldo channels this creativity through an agile metamodel. The platform guides contributors to qualify objects according to a common grammar (the Enterprise Glossary), generating analytical value while maintaining a 'Consumer Grade' interface accessible to non-experts.
Turn your diagrams into decision-making tools
Miro is a visual presentation tool, not an analytical one. It is impossible to query data (e.g., 'show all critical applications hosted in the US'). Information remains trapped within the image, preventing any automated impact analysis during IT transformations.
Conversely, Boldo turns architecture into a decision-making lever. Thanks to data structuring, the platform allows you to visualize dependencies, filter views according to precise criteria, and provide decision-makers with dynamic dashboards, transforming architecture into a true strategic asset.
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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.
Miro vs Boldo
| Miro | 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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