Bonita Platform vs. Oracle BPM Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bonita Platform
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
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
Oracle BPM Suite
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
The 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
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
Considered Both Products
Bonita Platform
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
Bonita BPM excels in systems interconnection and UI development. It has a robust and reliable BPM server. Competitors are way too expensive.
Oracle BPM Suite
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]. …
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 …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bonita Platform
7.3
43 Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle BPM Suite
6.0
5 Ratings
30% below category average
Dashboards7.841 Ratings6.04 Ratings
Standard reports6.240 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Custom reports8.040 Ratings6.04 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Bonita Platform
7.8
53 Ratings
8% below category average
Oracle BPM Suite
7.4
6 Ratings
13% below category average
Process designer8.752 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Process simulation6.910 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Business rules engine8.142 Ratings9.06 Ratings
SOA support7.840 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Process player6.78 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Support for modeling languages8.438 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Form builder7.948 Ratings4.05 Ratings
Model execution7.648 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Bonita Platform
7.0
24 Ratings
16% below category average
Oracle BPM Suite
6.0
4 Ratings
31% below category average
Social collaboration tools7.024 Ratings6.04 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
Oracle BPM Suite
7.0
3 Ratings
15% below category average
Content management6.834 Ratings7.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bonita PlatformOracle BPM Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(53 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.1
(3 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bonitasoft
We just renewed our license
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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.
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Oracle
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Support Rating
Bonitasoft
It was sometimes difficult to get support on Bonita API.
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Oracle
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Implementation Rating
Bonitasoft
Nothing in particular
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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ScreenShots

Bonita Platform Screenshots

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