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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bonita Platform

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ABonita is an open-source business process and workflow management platform created by the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science. It is available as a free community edition or as a commercial subscription product.N/A

    Camunda

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACamunda is a process orchestration tool designed to help organizations design, automate, and improve any process. Built for business and IT collaboration using BPMN and DMN standards, Camunda aims to enable seamless integration across endpoints to transform mission-critical processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Self-Managed Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
    SaaS Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Considered Both Products
    Bonitasoft
    Chose Bonita Platform
    Bonita has a community version, open-source, so it´s easy to test the benefits of process automation for any enterprise. Bonita Platform is also very near to Java architecture, so the learning curve for developers is not difficult, and they only need to understand how processes …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bonita Platform
    Bonita may be the easiest to start with without a steep learning curve, anyway on the other side it probably is not as powerful in the case you need to handle a very complicated and high volume or mission critical process. If look by the platform cost or license fee, Bonita has …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bonita Platform
    The Bonita platform is by far the most complete and flexible solution as a BPM suite with the added advantage that the Community edition is usable for production deployment. From a cost perspective, Bonitasoft licenses the subscription edition per server with no limitations as …
    Incentivized
    Camunda
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bonita Platform and Camunda
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    6.4
    43 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Camunda
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Dashboards6.041 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Standard reports5.540 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Custom reports7.740 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Bonita Platform and Camunda
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    7.7
    53 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Camunda
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Process designer9.052 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Process simulation6.910 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine8.242 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    SOA support6.440 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Process player6.78 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages9.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder8.148 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Model execution6.948 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Bonita Platform and Camunda
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    5.9
    24 Ratings
    35% below category average
    Camunda
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools5.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Bonita Platform and Camunda
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    6.8
    34 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Camunda
    -
    Ratings
    Content management6.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Bonita Platform and Camunda
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Camunda
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    38% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business Process Automation
    Comparison of Business Process Automation features of Bonita Platform and Camunda
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Camunda
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    39% above category average
    Business Process Modeling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Decision Modeling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Small Businesses
    IBM Blueworks Live
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score9.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (53 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bonita PlatformCamunda
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bonitasoft
    Well suited for low code/no code applications centered around approval flows. It has built-in task management for users to see their pending actions, comments, statuses, etc. It has a very nice design for process flows. Less appropriate may be for generic type applications with complex screens and logic within those screens that need a lot of data to process.
    Incentivized
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    Camunda
    Camunda Platform is well suited for scenarios where there are different stages in a business flow and the flow is driven by user action at each stage. For example placing of an order on an ecommerce platform. Depending on whether user was able to make the payment or not the workflow would go to dispatch or retry stage. Now the retry stage would trigger further actions like sending follow up emails etc. Likewise, dispatch stage would have a different set of actions. Since every order is important and we need to know where it stands, using Camunda Platform is imperative. Camunda Platform might not be a right choice where just a one off thing needs to be done. For example, uploading of product information by user or periodic processing of heavy images by a worker. These are all either one step processes or periodic automated processes where we can track the status without using a business modeler like Camunda Platform.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Bonitasoft
    • Bonita seems particularly suited for processes requiring a great deal of human interaction. Its user model allows you to control access to business processes in a fine-grained way. This allows for business processes to move smoothly between users and services as the process advances.
    • The definition and usage of custom forms from the latest version of Bonita seems particularly powerful. It allows for a thorough customization of the look-and-feel and does not require complex developments.
    • The web interface and administration section have greatly improved in the latest versions. Installation and configuration of processes has become more flexible and more structured. The administration section gives a good view on failed processes, allowing to analyse problems in an efficient way.
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    Camunda
    • Asynchronous functionality of Camunda Platform and different types of gateways.
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    Cons
    Bonitasoft
    • There is a learning curve beyond the boot camps that needs to be addressed with more structured curriculum.
    • The full stack technologies are industry standard, but these [are] challenging to learn and could use a learning path and orientation. There's probably opportunity for third-parties here to help with learning and adoption.
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    Camunda
    • Camunda expects that you will develop your own user interfaces. This is either a benefit or a barrier depending on your perspective on packaged UI.
    • As an open source vendor, Camunda is under-covered in analyst reports.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bonitasoft
    We just renewed our license
    Incentivized
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    Camunda
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Bonitasoft
    Bonita Platform has allowed us to develop GUI relatively fast using its UI Designer while being able to seamlessly integrate our business logic in Java in a BPMN2 process diagram. It gives a nice productivity boost but still requires programming know-how to be able to deliver the final solution to your business problems.
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    Camunda
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Bonitasoft
    Engine itself is efficient enough for most cases I dealt with. It can also be extended by clustering. I have done performance tests with JMeter and only managed to induce the crash of... JMeter. If there are efficiency issues they usually concern bad design/implementation of created apps or bottlenecks in integrated systems. Although I have met two cases with efficiency loss.
    1. Java 7 related PermGen saturation caused by big number of installed apps (there is no jar dependency reusal between apps option).
    2. Big number of waiting event handlers in processes stresses the database.
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    Camunda
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bonitasoft
    It was sometimes difficult to get support on Bonita API.
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    Camunda
    Camunda provides pretty standard product support offerings.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bonitasoft
    Nothing in particular
    Incentivized
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    Camunda
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Bonitasoft
    RHPAM is maybe a very good BPM process engine but is very limited to build a complete application.
    We also try site soft W4 which needs more developments to build an application. We finally choose Bonita which is easier to get ready with.
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    Camunda
    Lacks good documentation. Training and documentation is geared towards those who are already technically adept. Does not have as many data integrations as other full fledged products. Paid version of Camunda is not as fully fledged as other products.
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    Scalability
    Bonitasoft
    Respect of BPMN standard over the long term. Good enhancements by Bonitasoft for new use cases, for example the introduction of a real form editor even if it has been technically difficult to manage. Once done though, we have far greater possibility of human interaction.
    Incentivized
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    Camunda
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Bonitasoft
    • Case management provided as better tracking which help us to meet SLAs.
    • Auto email notification helps to address "Where are my request" answers which eventually increased our customer delight index.
    • By using the third-party integration, we are able to provide visibility w.r.t end to end request status.
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    Camunda
    • The positive impact is that we are able to ensure the business process is being followed and that results in orders getting processed successfully leading to customer satisfaction and revenue
    • Another positive impact is that we are able to track any anomalies and any errors in the order flow and retry them so that users don't have a negative experience.
    • A negative point is that it is an overhead to maintain so there is significant engineering effort getting invested there
    Incentivized
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