Camunda vs. Flokzu Cloud BPM

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

Easy to track status of tasks. Great to use collaborate between remote teams. Useful for follow up and managing deadlines, with alarms functionality. Detailed and clear information in standard or customized reports.

• Asynchronous functionality of Camunda Platform and different types of gateways.

• Easy of use, for a geographically distributed team.
• Agility. We can model, deploy and adjust (modify) business process by ourselves, in minutes.
• Flexibility, to add new processes (what we do all the time).
• Great support from the Flokzu team, every-time we needed it.

• 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.

• We don't have major issues with Flokzu.

Flokzu is very easy to use without having any knowledge of programming

Camunda provides pretty standard product support offerings.

Nice people both on chat and e-mail, always willing to help us.

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.

Incentivized

• 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

• It really helped to coordinate our distributed sales team.
• Flokzu also helped to streamline administrative tasks, like invoicing and payment tracking from other countries.