BIC Platform vs erwin Data Modeler by Quest comparison

GBTEC Software AG and erwin by Quest are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. GBTEC Software AG is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0, while erwin by Quest is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.1. GBTEC Software AG holds a 1.7% mindshare in BPD, compared to erwin by Quest’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GBTEC Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of erwin by Quest users who would recommend it.

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erwin Data Modeler by Quest

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

BIC Platform and erwin Data Modeler by Quest compete in data modeling and business process management. While BIC Platform is cost-effective, erwin Data Modeler stands out with its advanced modeling capabilities.

Features: BIC Platform offers process automation, collaboration tools, and comprehensive business process management. erwin Data Modeler provides extensive support for logical and physical data modeling, integration, and versioning capabilities. It is tailored for complex data architecture solutions.

Room for Improvement: BIC Platform can enhance its data modeling capabilities, improve its integration features, and expand its analytics offerings. erwin Data Modeler could simplify its user interface, reduce the learning curve, and lower its initial setup costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BIC Platform is easy to deploy and offers responsive customer service, making it suitable for organizations seeking quick implementation. erwin Data Modeler requires a more complex deployment process but provides comprehensive support services once implemented.

Pricing and ROI: BIC Platform is more affordable with positive ROI due to lower setup costs. erwin Data Modeler involves higher initial costs but offers significant ROI through its feature set, especially for data-intensive enterprises.

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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) (29th)

erwin Data Modeler by Quest

Ranking in Business Process Design

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of BIC Platform is 1.7%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of erwin Data Modeler by Quest is 2.1%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

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reviewer2229045

Systems Administrator at a legal firm with 10,001+ employees

Provides good stability, but they should add a feature for enterprise architecture

We use BIC Platform for process design and workflow features The product is easy to use, and it has different roles. It is an online platform, so many users can simultaneously use it according to their assigned roles. The product’s most valuable feature is roles. So, we can assign different…

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JorgeSanz

Data Governance Senior Advisor at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

Streamline data modeling and automate network changes for increased efficiency

The initial setup depends on the tool if you are using the data model environment. Stopping the server could be complex and require strong expertise. If you have everything set up and configured, Erwin is straightforward. You can deploy it in a few hours. In our case, it took a couple of months to address internal conditions, assign machines, and set up everything for the services. I rate the initial setup a six out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

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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."

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

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

"The solution's ability to compare and synchronize data sources with data models is fantastic. We use it for that on a regular basis to make sure that changes haven't been made to the database outside of the modeling process. I can take existing databases and reverse engineer them and understand their structure within 15 minutes. If I didn't have Data Modeler it would take hours. It increases our productivity and helps in understanding our legacy application."

"Being able to point it to a database and then pull the metadata is a valuable feature. Another valuable feature is being able to rearrange the model so that we can display it to users. We are able to divide the information into subject areas, and we can divide the data landscape into smaller chunks, which makes it easier to understand. If you had 14 subject areas, 1,000 entities, and 6,000 columns, you can't quite understand it all at once. So, being able to have the same underlying model but only display portions of it at a time is extremely useful."

"The solution is good for organizing the data and the scripting part is very powerful. It's easy to create technical scripts for models."

"When you're getting down to the database level, where you're building a design and you're creating DDL out of it, or you're going in the other direction where you're reaching into system catalogs and bringing things back, that starts to really require specialization. Visio isn't going to reverse-engineer that for you. Those features in erwin are valuable."

"The generation of DDL saved us having to write the steps by hand. You still had to go in and make some minor modifications to make it deployable to the database system. However, for the data lineage, it is very valuable for tracing our use of data, especially personal confidential data through different systems."

"It's a safeguard for me because I'm always concerned that somebody is free handing it and will forget a key coming from the parent. The migrating keys are a great feature. Identifying relationships, non-identifying relationships, and being visually right there to understand the differences are great features. erwin is key to being able to visually understand whatever the customer is requesting. They'll give you words on a paper, but once they can actually view it as a picture, it really comes to life. The data comes to life to where they understand exactly what they're asking for."

"It provides flexibility with the code. You can change the code as you want. Basically, you can change SQL based on what's best for your project."

"The ability to collaborate between different members across the organization is the most valuable feature. It gives us the ability to work on the same model, regardless of where we are physically."

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Cons

"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."

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

"I would like to see more support for working with the big-data world. There are so many new databases evolving and it's very hard for them to keep up with all of the new technologies. It would be good if they were able to dynamically support big-data platforms, other than Hive and Teradata."

"Although Quest Software has made tremendous strides in recent years, they need to evolve more in the big data arena; erwin Data Modeler could use a little more work when it comes to big database designs."

"I love the product. I love the ability to get into the code, make it automated, and make it do what I want. I would like to see them put some kind of governance over the ability to make changes to the mart tables with the API, so that instead of just using the modeler's rights to a table -- it has a separate set of rights for API access. That would give us the ability to put governance around API applications. Right now a person with erwin and Excel/VBA has the ability to make changes to models with the API if they also have rights to make changes to the model from erwin. It's a risk."

"We can only get licenses through partners."

"One of the best aspects of the tool is its reverse engineering capability."

"I would like to see the reporting capabilities be more dynamic and more inclusive of information. The API is very sparsely understood by people across the user community."

"We are planning to move, in 2021, into their server version, where multiple data modelers can work at the same time and share their models. It has become a pain point to merge the models from individual desktops and get them into a single data model, when multiple data modelers are working on a particular project. It becomes a nightmare for the senior data modeler to bring them together, especially when it comes to recreating them when you want to merge them."

"In terms of new features, it would be great to have a cloud base. We should be able to put it on the cloud for better collaboration and data models sharing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Likewise, the solution is a little pricey."

"Price-wise, erwin Data Modeler is okay. You can purchase a single license and it is not very expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is cheap. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."

"There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"Pricing is very high compared to any other product."

"The price should be lower in order to be on the same level as its competitors."

"The price of erwin Data Modeler is very expensive, in particular for this part of the world."

"The primary reasons that erwin was selected were that it was much more affordable for us [than Embarcadero] and it was easily maintainable."

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Manufacturing Company

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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 erwin Data Modeler by Quest?

Forward engineering, DDL generation, reverse engineering, and reporting are the most valuable features of the solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for erwin Data Modeler by Quest?

The product is expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with erwin Data Modeler by Quest?

As a documenting tool, it's solid, though its reporting could be more robust. The reporting mechanisms could be more intuitive regarding report creation. It can generate reports in CSV files, displ...

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Also Known As

BIC Cloud BPM, BIC Platform

erwin DM

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

erwin pioneered data modeling, and erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM) remains trusted, award-winning software for data modeling and database design, automating complex and time-consuming tasks. Use it to discover and document any data from anywhere for consistency, clarity and artifact reuse across large-scale data integration, master data management, metadata management, Big Data, business intelligence and analytics initiatives – all while supporting data governance and intelligence efforts.

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Sample Customers

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

Premera, America Honda Motors, Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Dental Dental Cali, Cigna, Staples

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