Who are BOC Group? BPM, Enterprise Architecture, and GRC Software
BOC Group is the Austrian software company behind ADONIS, ADOIT and ADOGRC, three products that cover business process management, enterprise architecture, and governance, risk and compliance. It describes itself as the Enterprise Intelligence Platform, and its pitch is a timely one. AI assistants and agents are now running inside everyday business processes, and most organisations cannot say with confidence which processes they touch, which data they use, or who is accountable for them. BOC Group's answer is to connect process, architecture and compliance information into one trusted picture of how the business works, so that people and AI systems can both act on it. If BPM, EA or GRC tooling is on your agenda, this is a vendor worth understanding.
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Who Are BOC Group?
BOC Group was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with offices in France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain and Switerland. The company employs more than 295 people, reported revenue of EUR 75 million for FY 2025, and serves more than 1,900 customers ranging from small and medium-sized businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. It is led by a four-person management board: Dr. Franz Bayer, Dr. Harald Kühn, Dr. Christian Lichka and Dr. Robert Woitsch. Its tagline is simple: "We make your business run better."
The most important thing for buyers to know about BOC Group's ownership is that it is privately held and 100% self-financed. It has not been built on venture capital, and it is not owned by a private equity fund working towards an exit. Growth has been funded from the company's own revenue over three decades. In a software market where many vendors are under investor pressure to grow fast, raise again or sell, that gives BOC Group a stable base, and it means product and pricing decisions are made by the people running the business. For a buyer signing a multi-year agreement for a system that will hold the organisation's process and compliance knowledge, that stability counts for a lot.
BOC Group's stronghold is the DACH region and continental Europe, where it has worked with many of the largest banks, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and public bodies. It is, however, a global vendor. National subsidiaries serve their regional markets, a partner network extends its reach, and the company is putting particular focus on North America, South America and Asia Pacific. It also keeps close ties with academia, with more than 120 partner universities and a programme that gives lecturers and students free access to its BPM and EA software. Alongside the software, BOC Group provides consulting, training and proven methods to take customers from a first use case to an enterprise-wide rollout.
What Does BOC Group Do?
BOC Group sells software that documents, analyses and governs how an organisation works. Each of its three products addresses one part of that picture. ADONIS handles business process management and operational excellence. ADOIT handles enterprise architecture, linking business capabilities, applications, data and technology. ADOGRC brings governance, risk and compliance together, connecting regulations, risks, controls and responsibilities. The three products can be bought on their own, but they are designed to share information, so a process in ADONIS can be linked to the applications that support it in ADOIT and the controls that govern it in ADOGRC.
The company frames this around three fields of action that map to CxO priorities: driving operational excellence (BPM), getting more value from technology (EA), and securing the business (GRC). The connecting idea is what BOC Group calls trusted context. Rather than leaving process maps in one tool, application lists in spreadsheets and control libraries in another system, BOC Group pulls them into connected models that can be queried, reported on and kept current. This sits squarely within what we cover on our Transformation Technology page, where process, architecture and change tooling come together.
AI runs through the current product strategy in three ways. First, AI features are built into each product to speed up the work: generating process models from text, turning SOPs into BPMN diagrams, asking questions of an architecture repository in plain language, or matching duplicate controls across frameworks. Second, the products help organisations govern their own AI adoption, by showing where AI is used in processes, which AI systems exist in the architecture, and which obligations under frameworks such as the EU AI Act apply. Third, BOC Group provides approved process, architecture and compliance content to corporate AI assistants and agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), so that an employee asking a company chatbot "what is our procedure for this?" gets an answer grounded in the approved process rather than a guess.
That last point reflects BOC Group's view that AI adoption is less a technology problem than an operating model problem. Its own strategy material cites research showing that most employees already use AI at work, while only a small fraction of organisations turn it into measurable value at scale. The gap, in BOC Group's view, is context: knowing which process an AI agent is working in, who is responsible, what data is involved and what risks apply.
For buyers who want the detail on the process side, our What is ADONIS? guide covers the BPM suite module by module.
You can also read our Business Process Management Software Options which features BOC Group.
BOC Group Technology Areas
BOC Group's portfolio spans the following product and solution areas, each of which connects to the wider Transformation Technology market.
Business Process Management (ADONIS). Web-based process modelling in BPMN 2.0, with a process portal that makes approved processes available to every employee.
Process Mining and Automation. ADONIS Process Mining compares real execution data with designed processes, and ADONIS Process Automation runs workflows directly from the model, including AI agent steps.
Enterprise Architecture Management (ADOIT). A catalogue of capabilities, applications, data flows and dependencies used for portfolio management, roadmapping and impact analysis.
Governance, Risk and Compliance (ADOGRC). A connected compliance platform where one control can satisfy several frameworks, such as ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2, GDPR, SOX and the EU AI Act.
AI Governance and Adoption. Tools to inventory AI systems, map where AI is used in processes, assess AI risk and compliance, and plan AI initiatives against business goals.
Trusted Context for Enterprise AI. MCP connections that feed approved process, architecture and compliance knowledge to corporate AI assistants and agents.
Consulting, Training and Methods. Implementation, training and method support delivered alongside the software, plus a free academic programme for universities.
BOC Group Alternatives
BOC Group competes in three overlapping markets, so its competitors depend on which product a buyer is looking at. In BPM, the main comparisons are process modelling and governance suites rather than low-code workflow platforms. In enterprise architecture, it meets the specialist EA vendors. Few competitors cover BPM, EA and GRC from a single vendor with a shared repository, and that combination is BOC Group's main point of difference. Our Business Process Management Software Options 2026 and GRC Software Options 2026 reports cover the wider markets in more depth.
SAP Signavio. The most frequent comparison for ADONIS in large enterprises, particularly those running SAP. Signavio links process modelling and process intelligence closely to SAP S/4HANA change programmes, while BOC Group is independent of any ERP vendor and works across mixed application estates.
ARIS. One of the longest-established process management suites, now a standalone business under Silver Lake ownership. ARIS and ADONIS both appeal to mature process teams in regulated industries, and buyers often shortlist the two together.
SAP LeanIX. A leading SaaS enterprise architecture tool and a common alternative to ADOIT, especially in application portfolio management. Since its acquisition by SAP, it is increasingly bundled with Signavio as part of SAP's wider process and architecture offering.
Bizzdesign. A Dutch enterprise architecture vendor that has merged with MEGA International and Alfabet, bringing EA, process and portfolio management together. It is a direct competitor to ADOIT and, through the MEGA portfolio, to parts of ADONIS and ADOGRC.
GBTEC. The German vendor behind the BIC Platform, which combines BPM, process mining, enterprise architecture and GRC. It is one of the closest like-for-like alternatives to BOC Group's combined portfolio, with a similar European customer base.
Celonis. The best-known process mining vendor, focused on analysing execution data from ERP and other systems. Celonis is often evaluated alongside ADONIS where the priority is data-driven process improvement rather than process documentation and governance.
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BOC Group Customer Examples
BOC Group's customer list is weighted towards large, regulated organisations, including Allianz, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cisco, Generali, Novartis, SBB and Swiss Life. The four examples below are taken from BOC Group's own published customer stories and cover all three products.
Bristol Myers Squibb. The global biopharmaceutical company uses ADONIS as the central repository for process documentation in its drug development organisation, with around 5,000 users, and is extending it into manufacturing. BOC Group reports that the programme delivered an estimated $295 million in cost savings and cost avoidance by the end of year two, alongside a 30% increase in operational efficiency in the targeted areas.
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). SBB replaced its previous process tool with ADONIS, migrating around 2,500 trilingual process models into one platform. The process portal is available to all 34,000 employees and is maintained by more than 300 process modellers and 450 process owners.
Swiss Life. The Swiss insurance and pensions provider used ADOIT to link its processes, applications and risks in one model. Starting from core business processes, it cut an estate of more than 1,000 applications in Switzerland to fewer than 100 and identified its business-critical systems for security planning.
ewz. One of Switzerland's largest energy providers built an integrated internal control system in ADOGRC, as part of a wider management system that also uses ADONIS and ADOIT. The broader programme reduced more than 700 applications to around 150 and consolidated more than 500 fragmented workflows into about 300 defined processes.
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Further reading. If you want to understand the wider business process management and enterprise architecture technology market before going further with any individual vendor, the Viewpoint Analysis Transformation Technology page covers the market in detail, including the different categories, key vendors, and what to look for when evaluating your options. You may also want to look at our Financial Services and Pharmaceuticals industry pages for lots of ideas relating to technology in those two sectors, where BOC Group has a particularly strong customer base.
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