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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bonita Platform

    Score4 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

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Bonitasoft
    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.
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle BPM Suite
    We have selected Oracle BPM Suite because we use Oracle Middleware Suite in our Production system. BPM is part of [the] Middleware Suite. We selected BPM as a frontend system for our business process. We also use BPM to integrate BPM with several other Oracle ecosystem[s]. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle BPM Suite
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are …
    Incentivized
    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 PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bonita Platform and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    6.4
    43 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards6.041 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Standard reports5.540 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Custom reports7.740 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Bonita Platform and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    7.7
    53 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Process designer9.052 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process simulation6.910 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Business rules engine8.242 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    SOA support6.440 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process player6.78 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages9.038 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Form builder8.148 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Model execution6.948 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Bonita Platform and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    5.9
    24 Ratings
    34% below category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Social collaboration tools5.924 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Bonita Platform and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Bonita Platform
    6.8
    34 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Content management6.834 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    Small Businesses
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (53 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (25 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
    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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    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bonitasoft
    We just renewed our license
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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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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    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bonitasoft
    It was sometimes difficult to get support on Bonita API.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Bonitasoft
    Nothing in particular
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
    Incentivized
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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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    Oracle
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Bonita Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of process designed in Bonita BPM StudioScreenshot of Bonita BPM project overviewScreenshot of Fully customized end user interfaceScreenshot of Bonita BPM Admin AppScreenshot of Bonita Process Insights