BIC Platform vs BiZZdesign HoriZZon comparison

GBTEC Software AG and BiZZdesign are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. GBTEC Software AG is ranked #18 with an average rating of 9.0, while BiZZdesign is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3. GBTEC Software AG holds a 1.8% mindshare in BPD, compared to BiZZdesign’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GBTEC Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 78% of BiZZdesign users who would recommend it.

BIC Platform

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100% willing to recommend

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

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1,632 Comparison Views

78% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

BIC Platform and BiZZdesign HoriZZon compete in the business process management and enterprise architecture domains. BiZZdesign HoriZZon is seen as superior due to its comprehensive feature set, despite its higher cost.

Features: BIC Platform includes robust risk management, compliance tools, and governance focus. BiZZdesign HoriZZon offers extensive modeling capabilities, framework integration, and analytical tools.

Room for Improvement: BIC Platform could enhance its feature set and customization options, and expand its integration capabilities. BiZZdesign HoriZZon may improve its ease of deployment, reduce the technical complexity, and offer more competitive pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BIC Platform allows straightforward setup with responsive support, facilitating quicker starts. BiZZdesign HoriZZon's deployment involves more technical detail but is balanced with extensive training and support resources for complex needs.

Pricing and ROI: BIC Platform offers an affordable licensing model, providing good ROI for cost-conscious companies. BiZZdesign HoriZZon, despite its higher cost, targets large organizations investing in detailed strategic planning, with its extensive feature set justifying the investment over the long term.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BIC Platform

Ranking in Business Process Design

18th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (23rd)

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

Ranking in Business Process Design

9th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of BIC Platform is 1.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BiZZdesign HoriZZon is 2.4%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

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reviewer2328264

Digitalization PM at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Platform for documenting and modifying our processes

The tool was used for digital transformation. Our company operates in the automotive industry and needs a transition to digitalization. We utilize the BIC Platform for documenting and modifying our processes, as well as incorporating various elements such as KPIs. It serves as a fundamental tool for numerous aspects of our operations.

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BijoyTalukder

Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy

Helps to get a clear overview of our enterprise architecture, especially when dealing with multiple departments

One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs. While the platform offers REST APIs, they have limitations when it comes to retrieving and exporting data. Obtaining detailed information at the individual application or component level, including IDs, costs, and deployment-related data, can be challenging through these APIs. This limitation makes it difficult to smoothly export such granular data. I have raised this issue with the BiZZdesign team, and they expressed interest in addressing it, but I'm not aware of the current status of this improvement effort. Nonetheless, improving the usability and flexibility of the REST APIs for data extraction is an area that could enhance the platform's capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product is easy to use."

"The central dictionary is a valuable feature."

"While this is a new product it has a mature feel from being built by a company with many years in the business."

"This is low-cost and very user friendly. A variety of models are available depending on the needs of the customer."

"Among the valuable features is the ability to document standards. For example, we have mandatory operating standards that need to be followed by every application and every architecture. We use things like table charts and pie charts for documenting the costs incurred across the systems. All of these are good features."

"The initial setup of this solution was very straightforward."

"I used BiZZdesign HoriZZon at two organizations. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I used it with a small team for architectural modeling of the student record system. We modeled teams, process objects, and their interactions with applications. We also used it to model a gradual rollout with plateaus showing migration over time. At the BBC, I used it to model software services for publishing content online. I showed key model views to senior stakeholders using Horizon, allowing them to modify and score applications and services."

"BiZZdesign HoriZZon is scalable, and I'd give it an eight out of ten for scalability. Our customers are enterprise level companies, but the solution is suitable for small and mid-sized companies as well."

"It is very easy to use. I can just click on an application component and find out if we are using this particular component. This provides us flexibility."

"t's a good tool. My colleagues that are making use of it for application, business processes, or data modeling, are very satisfied with it. They find it easy to use. The graphical representation is simple but therefore efficient, so I know that they are planning a very good commencement on the use of these tools."

"I like the flexibility of the modeling part for standards like ArchiMate and, at the same time, BPMN. It allows us to connect elements from different areas and to have a single repository and a single source of truth. It gives us one place to do analysis throughout the organization."

"This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool."

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Cons

"As the product is very new, some minor features are still missing, but everything is there to handle day-to-day process modeling."

"The solution could improve its connectivity to other systems."

"The product needs improvement regarding the confidentiality of the domain information for the key administrator."

"There's an issue with the current manual that they're working on."

"The users of BiZZdesign should be able to enter their data or make modeling changes via HoriZZon."

"In HoriZZon, there are different matrices. In some of the cases, there is an option to aggregate them, but in other cases, we have not done this, e.g., to see the proper costs. For example, if I have 10 different matrices, then I need to create an aggregate view out of those 10 matrices somewhere. That is where we have been struggling a bit. We have a counterpart from the HoriZZon product team with whom we have bi-weekly discussions. We have suggested to him that this can be improved."

"It should be more open to integrating with other existing tools. Although there has been progress in the past."

"I have seen table charts where, if the chart is a little too big, it does not fit in HoriZZon and it is not at all visible... There have been several times where we could not publish a chart properly and we had to break the chart into small tables and create multiple artifacts, creating a complete mess. This should be seriously taken up by BiZZdesign because there is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of usability. It's not at all good, unfortunately."

"One area where BiZZdesign HoriZZon could use some improvement is in its REST APIs."

"Integration definitely needs improvement. There are some restrictions. We've seen that it doesn't integrate with everything we might expect."

"There could be simpler modelling."

"It takes a long time to learn and understand, which is a learning curve you have to go through, but once you know how it works, it's very nice to work with."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing will differ between enterprises based on needs such as customization, but the company uses a standardized algorithm for determining this."

"Scalability-wise, it is an expensive product."

"In terms of this particular product usage, my clients currently only use per-user licenses."

"If one is very cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a seven out of ten."

"The pricing model is slightly on the high side and could be more competitive for long-term partnerships."

"We were customers and bought licenses from them. We used their remote instance initially but upgraded to the on-device version due to lag. For pricing, we paid about 2200 pounds a year per seat for the client installation at an educational rate. I'm not sure about commercial rates. I managed to get a free copy at BBC since it was for evaluation purposes."

"First and foremost within the scope of improvement for the solution would be the cost. It's very costly..."

"I haven't found any issues with the scalability and licensing parts that are access-related."

"The price is reasonable."

"[The] Orbus... pricing model was based on every single functionality having a price. The pricing was comparable but if we wanted to scale, it would have ended up being a lot more expensive. BiZZdesign gave us one price with all of the functionality, and we could scale as much as we needed."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

20%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BIC Platform ?

The central dictionary is a valuable feature.

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What needs improvement with BIC Platform ?

The solution could improve its connectivity to other systems. For instance, I need new connections to KPIs. KPIs are linked to processes, I can't access the dictionary of processes to make KPIs.

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What is your primary use case for BIC Platform ?

We use the solution for drawing the processes.

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What do you like most about BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

This is one of the best tools, especially because of its collaborative nature. Anyone using it can access previous projects and related data. It's definitely a strong collaborative tool.

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What needs improvement with BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

There is room for improvement in BiZZdesign HoriZZon. It's quite robust and has good online forums where people discuss it, though maybe the interface can improve, but I don't want to criticize it ...

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What is your primary use case for BiZZdesign HoriZZon?

The typical use case with BiZZdesign HoriZZon is basically for enterprise architecture and also for business process modeling.

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Also Known As

BIC Cloud BPM, BIC Platform

HoriZZon

Overview

BIC Platform delivers all-encompassing business process management. The software covers the complete lifecycle of BPM and supports strategy, design, implementation, execution and controlling of business processes.

BIC Platform has a modular setup which allows individual adjustments. Typical deployment scenarios of BIC Platform are SAP introduction, governance, risk or compliance management, quality management or the structure of process management systems.

Thanks to its intuitive design, users quickly start with process modeling and manage the full process cycle up to the optimization. Comprehensive features of the software are document management, governance, review and release workflows.

Available BIC Platform modules are Design, Governance, Portal, Monitor, Workflow and GRC. The software can be operated either as a Public Cloud, Private Cloud or On Premises. Offline modelling is possible with the web-based option.

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GBTEC Software AG

Make smarter decisions and optimize outcomes by unifying all your strategy, capabilities, operating models and change portfolios in a single platform.

With all the data about your business in one place you can see the big picture and make properly informed strategic decisions to drive growth. Bizzdesign Horizzon brings together strategy, IT architecture, operating models, data, capabilities, change portfolios and ideas into a single, intuitive collaborative business design platform. Real-time visibility of key metrics and trends allows you to take action more quickly. Accelerating the speed and accuracy of your operations now – and into the future.

Core Platform Capabilities:

Multi-discipline collaboration
Data Integration
Advanced analytics
Models and Roadmaps
Governance & Security
Business Insight Graph

BiZZdesign

Sample Customers

Daimler AG Siemens AG RWE Bundesministerium des Innern Uniklinikum Köln Vattenfall Ziemann Dermapharm AG Postbank LBBW EDEKA

T-Mobile, Shell, HSBC, Erasmus University, VIVAT Insurance

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