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Building Resilient Public Sector IT with Bizzdesign Alfabet: Cost Savings, Visibility, and Engagement

Building Resilient Public Sector IT with Bizzdesign Alfabet: Cost Savings, Visibility, and Engagement

Results

  • Enterprise-wide transparency across a highly federated IT landscape (dozens of agencies, hundreds of applications each)
  • Significant cost savings through vendor and contract consolidation.
  • Reduced risk by mapping technologies and dependencies to critical processes
  • Greater business engagement: 200+ active users across IT and agencies, with expansion underway
  • Executive visibility through real-time dashboards for CIO and state leadership

Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) is the central IT agency for the State of Minnesota’s executive branch, with 2,800 employees supporting 38 state agencies and 60 boards and commissions. Formed just over a decade ago to unify previously siloed IT functions, MNIT now provides strategy, governance, and shared services that enable agencies to deliver on their missions.

 
Abstract visual representing strategic planning and alignment across business and IT transformation.
Country United States
Industry Public
Employees 1001 - 5000

Product

Bizzdesign Alfabet

Solution

Application Portfolio Management

Virginia Credit Union Accelerates Microsoft 365 Cloud Migration

Virginia Credit Union Accelerates Microsoft 365 Cloud Migration

Results

  • Seamless business continuity with a unified architecture

  • Accurate mapping of a target state to get clarity

  • Identifying redundancies and optimizing licensing costs

  • Standardizing architectural decisions with ArchiMate

Bizzdesign has been instrumental in helping us achieve our Microsoft 365 cloud migration goals. It has brought much-needed structure and discipline to our processes, and, most importantly, our team genuinely enjoys using the tool, and it’s made things happen.

Marc Bloom, Vice President of IT Core Infrastructure and Enterprise Architecture at Virginia Credit Union

 
Customer Story Virginia Credit Union

Revenue
USD 7.58 billion in total assets

Country United States
Industry Banking and Financial Services
Employees 501 - 1000

Product

Bizzdesign Horizzon

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Global Financial Services Provider Uses Enterprise Architecture for Strategic M&A Decision Support

Global Financial Services Provider Uses Enterprise Architecture for Strategic M&A Decision Support

Results

  • Data-driven M&A decision-making gives a competitive edge

  • Single data repository speeds up regulatory audit processes

  • Standardized modeling and preconfigured templates ensure rapid results

Our organization is transforming the way financial services operate on a global scale by using enterprise architecture for strategic guidance. Through business visualizations, we can now abstract possibilities into concrete visions that inspire and guide our CEO’s future actions.

Lead Enterprise Architect at Global Financial Services Provider

 
Global Financial Services

Revenue
USD 7 billion

Country United States
Industry Banking and Financial Services
Employees 10,001+

Product

Bizzdesign Horizzon

Solution

Enterprise Architecture Management

Ameren Creates a Consistent, Structured Solution Architecture

Ameren Creates a Consistent, Structured Solution Architecture

Results

  • 30% est. time saving by streamlining processes

  • Capturing metrics enables better decision-making

  • Speeding up the architectural process by approx. 10%

  • Standardization promotes consistency

  • Increased collaboration improves decision-making

  • 50% est. timesaving in onboarding new stakeholders

  • Working smarter by reusing existing materials

Bizzdesign Horizzon has been a game-changer in transforming our solution architecture, supporting us to streamline processes and make high-level views consistent.

Daniel J. Waller, Lead Solution Architect at Ameren

 
Customer Story Ameren

Revenue
$6,8 billion

Country United States
Industry Energy and Environment
Employees 5001 - 10,000

Product

Bizzdesign Horizzon

Solution

Solution Architecture Management

Keybank Integrates Servicenow and Bizzdesign for a Centralized Solution Architecture Diagram Repository

Keybank Integrates Servicenow and Bizzdesign for a Centralized Solution Architecture Diagram Repository

Results

  • Central repository boosts efficiency

  • Common language promotes consistency

  • Est. 10% time-saving in architecture creation and approval

  • A unified architecture framework ensures governance

  • Collaborative enterprise architecture tool fosters teamwork

  • Consistent standards enhance data integrity

  • Solving financial audit items to improve solutions over time

KeyBank is a large regional based financial services company located within the United States of America. They have over 1,000 branches and 40,000 ATMs scattered over 15 states. A Bizzdesign customer since 2017, KeyBank’s enterprise architecture management team consists of about 20 architects ranging from solution, domain, business and enterprise architects, all guided by a Chief Architect. Collectively, the team manages an estimated 1,600 individually identified applications.

 
Customer Story Keybank

Revenue
USD 7,5 billion

Country United States
Industry Banking and Financial Services
Employees 10,001+

Product

Bizzdesign Horizzon

Solution

Solution Architecture Management

Software Company Achieves GDPR Compliance and Simplifies Data Privacy Processes by 80%

Software Company Achieves GDPR Compliance and Simplifies Data Privacy Processes by 80%

Challenges

  • Become General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant
  • Understand and document how personal data is captured, managed, and processed
  • Incomplete understanding of risk and compliance requirements

 

Results

  • Implement a Privacy-by-Design framework to manage privacy across the business proactively.
  • DPO can monitor, track, and report GDPR compliance status in real-time using the collaborative platform.
  • Greater visibility and contextualization enabled the simplification of processing activities by 80%

Become GDPR-compliant and document how personal data is captured, managed, and processed.

When the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, a $700M Us-based global software company knew it would be impacted. It must prepare for this new data privacy regulation to protect EU citizens' data privacy. To comply with GDPR, companies must understand and document how they capture, manage, and process personal data.

 
Customer Story Software Company
Country United States
Industry Software

Product

Bizzdesign Hopex

Solution

Data Management