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Introducing the Next Evolution of BlueDolphin: AI Enablement + Collaborative Solution Design

Today, we’re excited to unveil the next evolution of ValueBlue’s BlueDolphin platform: an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution now enriched with advanced AI and Solution Design features, helping organizations to design, align and deliver business transformation with more speed and clarity than ever before. 

With 88% of major change programs failing to produce lasting results, BlueDolphin’s new AI and Solution Design features empower teams to reverse the odds. By automating insights, mapping dependencies, and aligning strategy to execution with precision, organizations can adapt faster, improve accuracy, and thrive through change, backed by the industry’s only software solution that seamlessly connects Enterprise Architecture to execution without friction. 

Why faster and easier transformation matters 

The business world is shifting faster than ever. For organizations in this environment, efficient and effective transformation isn’t optional – it’s survival. 

Enterprise architects, transformation teams, and the myriad departments they serve, face growing pressure to deliver change at the speed and scale strategy demands – all while controlling costs, managing risks, and navigating rising complexity. 

The rising complexity of transformation 

  • More moving parts: Teams must evolve operating practices while keeping systems aligned across business and IT. 
  • Greater risks: Dependencies between processes, applications, and data multiply blind spots and make projects harder to control. 
  • Higher stakes: Every initiative must show measurable impact, while also meeting compliance requirements and governance standards. 

Yet despite the urgency, most organizations still struggle to deliver transformation with the pace and impact required. As complexity grows, the gap between intent and execution widens, leaving many initiatives underdelivered or stalled before real value is realized. 

At the same time, new challenges only add to the strain: AI and emerging tech adoption, exploding technology portfolios, economic volatility, regulatory compliance, and rising expectations for measurable outcomes. Together, these forces raise the bar for what transformation requires. 

This widening gap between ambition and reality is exactly the problem BlueDolphin is built to solve, helping organizations plan smarter, align faster, and deliver lasting change with less friction. 

New challenges require new solutions 

Traditional EA and strategy platforms weren’t built for the speed and complexity of today’s transformation demands. Relying on spreadsheets, static diagrams, or isolated tools that don’t scale, change initiatives fail, suffering inefficiencies, miscommunication, and missed opportunities for value delivery. 

Legacy EA and strategy platforms frequently lead to siloed planning and fragmented governance. Application management tools only add to the sprawl, without the architectural context needed for sound decision-making. And while whiteboarding and diagramming tools are useful for brainstorming, they remain static and disconnected, lacking the critical dependency insights required for real execution. 

To succeed today, organizations need an intelligent, collaborative platform that unifies strategy, design, and execution in one place – and that’s exactly what BlueDolphin delivers. With its latest innovations, BlueDolphin enables rapid onboarding and immediate impact, giving teams the ability to model, generate insights, and align strategy to execution without friction – accelerating transformation momentum and delivering results with impact. 

Inside the next evolution 

With new Collaborative Solution Design and AI-powered automation, ValueBlue’s BlueDolphin platform gives organizations a smarter, more connected way to design and deliver change. Unlike fragmented tools, BlueDolphin unifies strategy, architecture, and execution – so every stakeholder works from the same source of truth. The result: faster onboarding, easier collaboration, and more impactful transformation. 

The platform brings together three powerful capabilities: 

  • Strategic Planning to keep your future state in focus through business modeling, strategic alignment, road mapping, governance, and guidelines. 
  • Architecture Repository to maintain a 360° view of your environment – projects, processes, applications, capabilities, technologies, and more. 
  • Solution Design to translate strategy into execution with value refinement, requirements definition, solution architecture, and solution implementation. 

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Up close: New AI features 

BlueDolphin now embeds AI directly into the transformation journey – making Enterprise Architecture accessible and actionable for everyone in the organization. By guiding, clarifying, and simplifying complex work, these features remove traditional barriers so that both technical experts and business stakeholders can understand and contribute with confidence: 

  • BPMN Generator: Instantly create BPMN 2.0-compliant process diagrams from a simple prompt or by uploading existing documentation you already have. By lowering the barrier to process modeling, BlueDolphin enables non-specialists to actively participate in shaping workflows and accelerating transformation. Even more, the BPMN Generator intelligently links your process models directly into the ArchiMate repository, connecting processes to applications, roles, and capabilities – so your workflows are always embedded in the full enterprise architecture context. 
  • Architecture & Process View Assistants: Automatically explain complex diagrams in natural language, turning technical architecture into plain-language insights that business and IT stakeholders alike can act on. 
  • Knowledge Assistant: Ask questions directly in-platform and get instant, step-by-step guidance without searching documentation. This makes onboarding seamless and ensures every team member, regardless of background, can stay productive from day one. 

Up close: Collaborative Solution Design 

Alongside AI agents, BlueDolphin introduces structured tools for teams to co-create and align transformation initiatives: 

  • Collaborative modeling: Enable business and IT to work together on clear, visual future-state designs that reduce friction in execution. 
  • Guided frameworks: Use step-by-step templates – or customize your own – to define project scope, objectives, and context from start to finish. 
  • Strategy-to-execution alignment: Connect every initiative to strategic goals and architecture components to ensure clarity, accountability, and shared understanding. 

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What this means for you 

With the new release, BlueDolphin customers gain the ability to: 

  • Onboard quickly and start building value from day one. 
  • Cut down the time from idea to execution with built-in guidance and AI support. 
  • Deliver early wins that boost momentum and adoption across teams. 
  • Make smarter calls, more confidently, with AI-powered insights. 
  • Keep everyone aligned by tying initiatives directly to business goals. 
  • Spot risks before they become problems by seeing dependencies clearly. 
  • Build together, not in silos, in a workspace designed for collaboration. 

A higher standard for enterprise transformation teams 

This release isn’t just an update – it’s a redefinition of how transformation gets done. With AI enablement, structured Solution Design, and seamless collaboration, BlueDolphin helps organizations stay ahead of change, reduce friction, and deliver results faster. 

The bottom line: With BlueDolphin’s latest product innovations, your teams can realize value in no time. No more silos. No more guesswork. Just intelligent, collaborative, and accelerated transformation. 

Ready to transform smarter, together? 

Meet us live at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2025
(September 8–9, UK) and experience the innovations firsthand and talk with our experts about your transformation goals. 

Can’t make it to the Gartner event? See the latest innovations in action today: book your demo to explore how our new features accelerate your transformation journey. 

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Author: Jelle Visser

Jelle is the CEO of ValueBlue, drawing on his experience as a serial entrepreneur and his Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship. He is passionate about helping organizations accelerate transformation through smarter, more connected design.

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