Bonita Platform

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Bonita Platform
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Bonita 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
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Bonita Platform
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Chose Bonita Platform
We liked Bonita's architecture, the open-source framework, and the licensing and support model. Maybe fewer features than other BPM platforms but easier to implement and maintain.
Chose Bonita Platform
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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Bonita Platform is very easy to use and more convenient when it comes to data handling. In the poTher Bpm Tools, the processing of the data is very difficult and connections are very confusing. In Bonita Platform, one can even use the customized search for the retrieval of the …
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I didn't use others products from Bonita Platform.
Chose Bonita Platform
One of the best support for BPMN Ability to extend platforms with reusable components to offer common functionality/connectivity Based on Java, used throughout our company
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Bonita Platform is very easy to use as compared with Oracle BPM. The UI part of Bonita is very efficient and easy to use. Oracle has a more complicated UI. Bonita BPM Studio is very fast and processes can be created easily. This is not true in case of other BPM tools. Bonita …
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Far better design and more intuitive than other solutions. BDM is a great tool for non IT users and help[s] them understand how structured data will improve the work. Community Edition allows us to already manipulate the software and appreciate the power of the tool. I enjoyed …
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The Tibco solution makes it possible to manage the organization of the company in a finer and more industrialized way. But Bonita is more user-friendly and can be more easily understood by users. The Bonita solution allows a dialogue with the user around an intuitive interface. …
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There is no user license in Bonita. Given the opensource, we have freedom here to extend requirements that might be beyond OOTB concept. If you have to kill [an ant] you don't need a missile. I think, for simple use cases Bonita has a simplified approach to address.
Chose Bonita Platform
Bonita BPM is simpler to use, development is faster and you don't have to write complicated codes to deploy new processes.
Chose Bonita Platform
  • Better price
  • Community package with free evaluation package so you can test main functionalities of a BPM tool
  • Subscription packages are great but are not an impediment to accomplish a task or a whole process in Bonita Business Process Management
Chose Bonita Platform
Bonita is lightweight. It is easy to configure as against SOA which requires heavy lifting and complex code/configuration management.
Chose Bonita Platform
Bonita BPM excels in systems interconnection and UI development. It has a robust and reliable BPM server. Competitors are way too expensive.
Chose Bonita Platform
I found Bonita BPM a more friendly environment, especially when it comes to front-end development. It is also better suited for a gradual introduction to an organization - PoC with Community edition, later upgrade to one of the subscription editions as needed. Tibco's product …
Chose Bonita Platform
  • Consulting capability in order to quickly kick off operational processes within the company
Chose Bonita Platform
Bonita BPM does have some nice visual tools. The annual maintenance is not so high and we particularly liked the visual tool to create business rules. Bonitasoft’s color-coded tools make life a bit simpler and more memorable for beginners or non-coder people. We really like …
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Features
Bonita Platform
Reporting & Analytics
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Bonita Platform
7.2
43 Ratings
12% below category average
Dashboards7.741 Ratings
Standard reports6.140 Ratings
Custom reports7.940 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Bonita Platform
7.8
53 Ratings
8% below category average
Process designer8.752 Ratings
Process simulation6.910 Ratings
Business rules engine8.142 Ratings
SOA support7.740 Ratings
Process player6.78 Ratings
Support for modeling languages8.538 Ratings
Form builder7.948 Ratings
Model execution7.648 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Bonita Platform
6.9
24 Ratings
17% below category average
Social collaboration tools6.924 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Bonita Platform
6.8
34 Ratings
18% below category average
Content management6.834 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bonita Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(53 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.3
(4 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(25 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
4.6
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
4.5
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(10 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.5
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bonita Platform
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.
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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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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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Likelihood to Renew
Bonitasoft
We just renewed our license
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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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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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Support Rating
Bonitasoft
It was sometimes difficult to get support on Bonita API.
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Implementation Rating
Bonitasoft
Nothing in particular
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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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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.
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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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Screenshot of Process designed in Bonita BPM StudioScreenshot of Bonita BPM project overviewScreenshot of Fully customized end user interfaceScreenshot of Bonita BPM Admin App