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Overview

Product Information on BlueDolphin

Updated 7th April 2026

What is BlueDolphin?

BlueDolphin is an AI‑first enterprise architecture platform that unifies Enterprise Architecture, Solution Design, and Strategic Planning in one collaborative environment. It helps organizations visualize and align business processes, IT systems, data flows, and transformation initiatives. Teams can model current and future states, assess dependencies, and evaluate change scenarios with workflow automation, graphical modeling, data mapping, and impact analysis. By centralizing architectural artifacts and enhancing them with AI‑driven insights, BlueDolphin strengthens governance, supports regulatory compliance, and provides enterprise‑wide transparency to drive digital transformation and long‑term strategic planning.

BlueDolphin Pricing

BlueDolphin uses user‑based pricing and includes the full platform for every customer. Modellers are paid users, while Viewers and Contributors use the platform free of charge. Add‑ons are available for integrations with ITSM, CMDB, and Agile tools, and optional AI token bundles extend AI‑powered capabilities.

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Strategic Planning templates
Strategic Planning templates
Solution Design workflow
Solution Design workflow
Integrated BPMN
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Overall experience with BlueDolphin

It Associate
250M - 500M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“BlueDolphin Enables Shared Architectural Context, But May Lack Guidance for Beginners”

4.0
May 1, 2026
Our overall experience with BlueDolphin has been for the most part very positive. As part of the team that setup and is now administering the platform, I found it excels in building practical enterprise architecture capability rather than just storing diagrams. The real value that I have been able to decipher is in how it brings architecture, process, and transformation work into one shared environment. This shared environment makes it extremely easy for business and IT stakeholders to work from one repository which is now a source of truth for everyone in the team/organization.
Product Owner
50M - 250M USD, Energy and Utilities
CRITICAL

“When you need a complete architecture modeling tool BlueDolpin is the one you want”

3.0
Feb 17, 2021
BlueDolphin is a complete toolkit to provide multiple views (which you have to make yourself) on the same architecture for different audiences

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Market Presence: Enterprise Architecture Tools, Application Portfolio Management Tools

About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th April 2026

BlueDolphin is on a continuous mission to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation initiatives through agile, data-driven, collaborative Enterprise Architecture. We believe in the strength of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Design, and Strategic Planning to make your business transformation comprehensive and simple. Digitalization and market developments require your organization to continuously adapt, resulting in a constant need of data-driven insights for your strategic planning. That's why we have built the AI-powered BlueDolphin platform: to help you control your strategy and corresponding business change initiatives through EA. It aligns your objectives, IT, people, and the rest of the business, providing you with the insights needed to reach your goals, and move towards your future state.

Company Details

Updated 7th April 2026
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
Utrecht, Netherlands
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://bluedolphin.io

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BlueDolphin Likes & Dislikes

Like

First, the repository (shared environment) is super useful because objects in it are connected in a way that lets you move naturally from one view to another without losing context. This makes it much easier to explain relationships between processes, applications, data and initiatives. Second, BlueDolphin excels in collaboration. This, in my opinion, is one of the best parts of the product. It significantly lowers the barrier for people outside the core architecture team to contribute, review, and consume the content. Third, another major strength of BlueDolphin is its Modeling Flexibility. When modeling, conventions and templates can be configured to support multiple audiences creating consistent views without having to rebuild everything from scratch every time.

Like

The way that you can configure templates so you can easily create several architecture models in a short amount of time

Like

strong point: - hyperlinks in between the objects - easy to draw processes - speedy development new features - view on impact of changes in our application landscape

Dislike

Weaknesses we have identified include but are not limited to, first, BlueDolphin does not cover every modeling language or specialist notation at the same level. This translates into the architecture teams having to agree on conventions and work within the platforms strengths rather than expecting it to handle every style equally. Second, data modeling feels like an area that is ripe for further development/improvement. From experience, we have found that some of the advanced modeling capabilities could be more complete. Third, while the platform is flexible, that same flexibility can become a drawback for some teams as first-time experience can feel less guided than other competitors in the same space. For teams that are just onboarding, the likelihood that they want more built-in structure around step-by-step workflows is high.

Dislike

BlueDolphin supports a variety of techniques and standard which geives a lot of discussion between architectures when using it

Dislike

Absence of workflow's to do a step by step design with all the necessary components

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BlueDolphin Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(186 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
54%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
1%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • It Associate
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    BlueDolphin Enables Shared Architectural Context, But May Lack Guidance for Beginners

    4.0
    May 1, 2026
    Our overall experience with BlueDolphin has been for the most part very positive. As part of the team that setup and is now administering the platform, I found it excels in building practical enterprise architecture capability rather than just storing diagrams. The real value that I have been able to decipher is in how it brings architecture, process, and transformation work into one shared environment. This shared environment makes it extremely easy for business and IT stakeholders to work from one repository which is now a source of truth for everyone in the team/organization.
  • Chief Information Officer
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Hyperlinks and Quick Feature Updates Appreciated, Workflow Structure Lacking

    4.0
    Mar 26, 2026
    Our success manager is very helpful and understands our challenges
  • DOMAIN ARCHIRECT
    1B-10B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Excellent enterprise architecture platform

    4.0
    Mar 31, 2026
    Great product and supplier. Onboarding of new users is also great. One area where the platform could improve is in its data modelling.
  • Project Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Service Provides Consistent Quality and Streamlined Project Collaboration Processes

    5.0
    May 12, 2026
    My overall experience has been positive. The service is reliable, and the quality meets expectations. Managing and collaborating on projects is made very simple.
  • IT Associate
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    great EA tool!

    5.0
    Mar 30, 2026
    Great Enterprice Architecture tool to create models keep repository and understandable canvas
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