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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
Integrated BPMN

Overall experience with BlueDolphin

Chief Information Officer
<50M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“Hyperlinks and Quick Feature Updates Appreciated, Workflow Structure Lacking”

4.0
Mar 26, 2026
Our success manager is very helpful and understands our challenges
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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4.5
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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Performance of BlueDolphin Across Market Features

BlueDolphin Likes & Dislikes

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

Like

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

Like

The collaboration options and the concept of its convention model which lowers the barrier to use an enterprise modelling tool.

Dislike

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

Dislike

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

Dislike

Pricing. Also, not all modelling languages are supported. It could do with more data modelling options and the addition of more developer oriented modelling like sequence diagramming.

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • LEAD BUSINESS/PROCESS ARCHITECT
    10B+ USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Powerful and Flexible Architecture/Process/Data Modeling Tool

    5.0
    Feb 24, 2025
    Our relationship with BlueDolphin and ValueBlue has been quite positive. As a SaaS tool, the ramp-up was easy. They were flexible with us on the pricing and contract. They also included on-site training with a flexible schedule and have been of great help in learning not just the tool but best practices for business architecture and Archimate as well. Overall our experience has been positive enough that we have recommended the tool to other business units within the company.
  • BUSINESS ANALIST
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    In-Depth Analysis: The Tradeoffs in BPMN 2.0 and Archimate Views

    4.0
    Feb 25, 2025
    The product supports both BPMN 2.0 and Archimate views and has an integrated repository. Integration is an advantage, but also requires working agreements.
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4.5

(183 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
55%
4 Star
44%
3 Star
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.5