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What is Bonita Platform?
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.
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- Process designer (52)8.787%
- Business rules engine (42)8.181%
- Form builder (48)7.979%
- Model execution (48)7.676%
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What is Bonita Platform?
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.
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What is Bonita Platform?
Bonitasoft supports digital operations and modernization of information systems with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes.
Presented as easy to handle and integrate into heterogeneous information systems, Bonita accelerates development and deployment of process automation projects, service orchestration and application development. This is made possible by its low code capabilities, reusable components, and unified deployment on-premise and on the cloud.
CIOs can confront both short-term challenges (often from requests from business teams who wish to support their business development), and the long-term challenge of modernizing IT to deliver on business needs and customer expectations.
Open-source, extensible and integrated, Bonita is based on an architecture that clearly separates the process, data and user interface layers. All project team members can collaborate to develop, deploy and maintain sustainable processes in line with the expectations of business users. Project governance, specific to each company, is respected by a clear separation between visual programming and coding capabilities. Each project team member can leverage their specific know-how and skills to add value. The technologies used do not require learning new languages or methods, but instead rely on commonly used components such as Java, enterprise services such as SSO and LDAP, continuous delivery, and the ability to develop in SDKs. These capabilities avoid the need for additional resources.
The use of BPMN, reusable components, numerous extension points, deployment on premise or in the cloud all help guarantee rapid and agile developments.
Complex business processes become visible with centralized monitoring. Traceability, execution control and reduced risk of errors allow teams to focus on optimizing and improving operational efficiency on an ongoing basis.
Bonita Platform Features
Process Engine Features
- Supported: Process designer
- Supported: Business rules engine
- Supported: SOA support
- Supported: Support for modeling languages
- Supported: Form builder
- Supported: Model execution
Collaboration Features
- Supported: Social collaboration tools
Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Standard reports
- Supported: Custom reports
Content Management Capabilties Features
- Supported: Content management
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Bonita Platform Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
| Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Bizagi Digital Business Platform, TIBCO® BPM Enterprise, and IBM Business Automation Workflow are common alternatives for Bonita Platform.
Reviewers rate Process designer highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Bonita Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 18, 2022
Nice balance between customizability and rapid development.
We used Bonita Platform to support claims process at our customer in insurance sector. The process is focused on long lived instances with multiple attachments of different types, stored in a non-standard document management system. Bonita Platform has offered a good balance between customizability and time to value. What was also important for us was ability to enable customer IT to understand and take over further development of the system. It worked fine. What I would appreciate in the future versions though is support for more recent GUI frameworks and easier deployment model, in kubernetes environments in particular.
- Rapid GUI development with UI Designer
- Ease of integrating custom logic and interoperability with external system with Java.
- Describing main process logic in BPMN facilitates transparence between tech and business project members.
- Customers small IT team was able to take over and implement further changes to the system.
- Support for more recent GUI frameworks and libraries in UI designer.
- Easier deployment model, more in line with the current cloud native trends.
- Better support for automated tests.
May 14, 2022
Bonita FDJ – SAL to Bonita Platform Review
We use the platform to allow the FDJ core domain team, the ability to develop and create business workflow without technical skills. We developed all the tooling around the Bonita Platform to interact with the rest of the FDJ software platform.
- Change the business logic without redeploy
- Licencing - ability to share keys and account
- Premium users website area - there are serveral bugs
We are using the Bonita Platform to automate some HR processes that are country-specific and very difficult to find OTS available software.
- Multiple integration points (emails, storage systems, databases, etc.)
- BPMN used to model the process
- Low-code development
- Updates to the Business Data Model are not as smooth as they could be
December 29, 2021
Bonita at a glance
For workflow automation to save time and cost, which will be an ongoing process and change based on business requirements. We are targetting the workload that currently has to be done by individual staff users, which could be automated and has repeated workload and the organization is looking for a proper solution and we are doing POC and testing with a few different products.
- Support workflow
- Support process model
- Good UI
- Prebuilt integration support
- Process as code
- Detailed doco
October 21, 2021
Transform your organization
We can easily implement new ways of working for companies. We help organizations have a better quality of work by implementing BPM solutions using Bonita. We can easily discuss with stakeholder on a BPMN basis then work with IT teams on the integration with IT ecosystem. Bonita is a marvelous tool to discuss with a large portion of [the] non-IT population and help them industrialize low value added tasks.
- Modelization.
- Task distribution.
- Workflow.
- The number of columns in basket.
- Database writing of buffered information.
We optimize business processes thanks to Bonita. The various business lines of the company are affected, from the management of customer files to support services, including mail management. The Bonita solution allows the company to automate some of the low value-added tasks, but it also helps users in more complex processes through request forms and an intelligent task allocation system that considers assignments and the skills of each employee.
- Automation of business processes.
- Managing task assignment.
- Use by non-technical trades.
August 30, 2021
Your best bet for business process
Bonita BPM is the principal tool we are currently using to automate our processes. So far, the experience has been excellent. We have deployed two processes with Bonita BPM to manage employee travel requests and vendor payment. We have also deployed our credit approval process on the platform and so far, we have seen great improvement in the credit approval process.
- Task assignment
- Process monitoring
- Process analysis
- A document management function needs to be added
- Process analytics needs to be improved
November 30, 2016
BPM with BONITA : the glue of our Information System to make interact ERP, CRM and human users
BONITA has been used for 2 kinds of automation processes:
- Dynamic interfacing between IT applications including human interaction. The interface has been dynamically adapted according to the various events managed by the BPM process. It's used at the company level to enable communication with the Customer Services team using CRM Salesforce cases, and with R&D team using Clearquest as a bug management tool. The Bonita BPM process is the basis for dialog between Customer Services and R&D teams.
- Automating the HR process for employees changing their job within the company (change of manager, location, cost center, position in the HR org in the ERP, IT tools)
- Mixing interactions between several IT applications with human interaction through automatic email receipt and response
- Offering several formats for comminicating with IT applications: web services, email, files
- Provides an effective form editor, including fields where values entered by humans drive the next actions of the business process
- Not easy to delpoy new releases
- License key management has to be renewed too frequently, even with a commercial contract in place
- Adding more standard interfaces to common IT applications such as ERP systems
- Change the culture from a technical / engineering culture to a customer-focused culture - this is already underway with the arrival of BONITA Customer success
We have used Bonita to replace a couple of manual approval processes for our procurement department.
- Modeling the business data.
- Building a responsive UI for the process users.
- Building integration with LOB systems in the form designer now requires implementing REST API's. This is a development overhead, and should be simplified.
- The studio should include more options for handling exceptions.
Bonita helped us to address two challenges: connecting editor applications to make interfaces and data exchanges between them, and processing workflows of dedicated processes within the company. The main challenges were to be able to create interfaces without having to hire external contractors to develop them, and taking advantage of this BPM tool, just by setting up the tool and by making the way we follow data exchanges between applications easy.
- Bonita simplifies the way to produce interfaces between applications of the market.
- Bonita reduces time to implement interface and time to maintain interfaces, using standard connectors.
- The IDE helps to draw a user friendly chart to accelerate deployment of process and increase process governance.
- Bonita forms are not highly customizable in terms of design.
- Some updates may break down your interface. A "test mode" on a virtual appliance with replicated copy of your [production] environment would be a great improvement.
- There is no ctrl-Z, no undo or redo, in the UI Designer editor.
June 23, 2016
Bonitasoft is good for business!
First Digital Solutions provides implementation and support to Bonitasoft users/customers. The platform is very user friendly and enables complex business processes to be designed and associated applications implemented quickly and efficiently. Furthermore, the extensive range of connectors means that applications can be easily integrated with other systems. We look forward to working with Bonitasoft on a mutually-beneficial basis in the long term.
- Easily design workflows & business processes using the GUI studio tool.
- Develop responsive web-based applications quickly and efficiently.
- End users can easily modify BPM applications without needing any code expertise.
- Be able to be implemented on LAMP Stack.
- Make it easier to upgrade between versions.
- Reduce the need for high-level Java expertise for developing applications.
June 23, 2016
Whey we looked at Bonita.
Bonita BPM provides a single design and runtime environment for business functionality. Using the Bonita Forms and BPM process runtime we can enable accurate electronic data capture, assign responsibilities and escalation for form pressing and monitor and measure the effectiveness of our business functions. Further we have compared Bonita to a range of other BPM providers and found that it meets the expectations with a competitive advantage in agility and price. Delighted to recommend Bonita.
- Dynamic form data capture, with validation and cross references.
- Process flow control with excellent roles and responsibilities allowing the ability to get the right information to the right person at the right time.
- Fantastic extensibility, both in the GUI and workflow connectors. Allows us to make the product meet customer requirements.
- Great bang for your buck, compared to other BPM products in the marketplace.
- I would love to see the process activities pre populate GUI fields, there are excellent REST capabilities, however a gap from the uplift from v6 to v7 is the auto mapping of data form a process activity into a the form. Having to retrieve it from the inside the form is cumbersome.
- Would love to see GIT support in the designer to allow for integration into modern SDLC and CI/CD tools.
- The ability to have a subscription licence work after an AWS node rebuild or a docker container rebuild would be a definite need. Licensing tools that support modern CI/CD and cloud scalability models.
- Run the Forms GUI as a web view inside the Eclipse runtime, better continuity of design tools and stops the incessant screen hopping.
- Auto start the browser developer tools in the preview mode, leverage the existing debug capabilities for REST, AJAX and JavaScript.
March 28, 2016
Bonita BPM as a versatile tool for process management and software systems interfacing
Bonita BPM is mainly used in our organisation to synchronise data between two database systems (SFDC and Clearquest) based on decision workflows for bug resolution tracking.
- Make interfaces between two system easy to modelise and to maintain in the long run.
- Avoid customised development or specific webservice interfacing to exchange data between systems following a workflow.
- Give the needed flexibility and ease of maintenance to automate internal activity processes in a versatile and agile way.
- Stability of the solution was a real issue in a first stage, latest release software is now much more reliable
- Modelisation and maintenance still need a significant initial investment in knowledge aquisition where end users or managers remains dependant from IT department
- BPM is still highly IT oriented from my point of view where needs are on end-users or enterprise core activities, continue to improve marketing target towards non-IT users may give a better adoption by mid-size companies
March 15, 2016
Bonita: great tool, poor documentation or support
Bonita BPM is used to provide tools and workflows for some of our procedures. It's been implemented across a few departments.
- Build great work flow logic
- Great API
- Good customizations
- Documentation
- Implementation of variables and code
- Product installation
March 14, 2016
My bonita's review
We are using it for dispatching leads between salers
- Interfacing our CRM with Bonitasoft APIs
- Modeling simple business processes
- The studio is very heavy
- The portal is a handicap for users. Takes too many steps to complete a task
- Why did they not implement gmail authentication?
March 11, 2016
Bonita BPM for Universities
We are a university consortium and we offer Bonita BPM as a facility for our customers, for many uses - for example new student enrollment or for the management of various administrative aspects. Also currently under evaluation is the adoption of Bonita BPM for internal use.
- Very friendly user interface
- Really easy to implement workflows
- The software installation process has some redundancies
- Complicated license management if you're using the subscription version
- Frequent release of new versions of the software. Lot of work for the system admins for the upgrade, and no chance to do it without service downtime
March 08, 2016
Bonita BPM - not yet ready for continuous integration
Bonita BPM is used by the IT integration team to manage certain business processes. Other departments (typically customer care) may use the Bonita web application if they are involved in the process at some point. Bonita is used for processes that typically involve human interaction (not necessarily via Bonita) or long-running asynchronous operations. Such processes concern mostly life cycles of certain transactions that require asynchronous input from multiple systems. In this regard, Bonita is not so much used by humans as controlled by messages sent by other systems.
- 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.
- From a technical point of view, Bonita is not well-suited for integration in a development environment.
- Upcoming support for 'unit' testing and continuous integration seems bloated and overly complex. Its starting point is clearly the Bonita point of view, not the development point of view.
- To integrate Bonita efficiently in a continuous integration process, it should be possible to: completely build a process .bar without having to start the studio and/or server (typically a single maven plugin); deploy .bar files in a maven (or other) repository; start an embedded Bonita server automatically when running unit tests.
- The usage of images and the (apparently mandatory) integration with Jenkins make this more complex than it should be.
- The constraint to deploy only one database model on the server is particularly painful.
- It necessitates that unrelated processes are combined into the same repository. In fact, it completely nullifies the possibility of having multiple repositories.
- While it is definitely a great idea to allow process parameters to be configured in the web interface, it would be useful to allow import (and export) of these parameters as a .properties file. Currently, a re-install of a process requires you to reconfigure these parameters manually (not nice if there are more than a few parameters).
- It is very unintuitive (and even illogical) that the XOR operator is named as such, while it does not act as an Exclusive Or when used with multiple incoming flows.
- A formal ticketing system for encountered issues with Bonita studio and server would be nice. (if it exists, I was never pointed to it)
- Mapping of values (message variables, process and sub-process variables, step variables) is often inconsistent. Certain cases allow the usage of scripts, others don't. Same for calling Java methods on an Object. Making this more consistent would avoid surprises and probably create lesser bugs. Data operations at the entry of a step would be useful too.
March 04, 2016
Flexible Business Project Management tool
Bonita BPM is currently used in the department that manages system integration and identity management projects. It's also going to be used for managing internal processes in our organization. Typically it addresses digital identity lifecycle management requisites (enrollment of users, enrollment of services, and workflows for managing internal authorizations).
- User interface programming
- Business Data Model
- API extensions for complete separation between the process and the user interface
- SAML authentication
- Features that in the new version are no longer supported.
March 03, 2016
First time ive tried Bonita
Bonita BPM is being used by the whole organization. At the moment it addresses the need create incident systems and business processes.
- Easy workflow creation.
- BDM makes better integration.
- Escalations between organization entities.
- Front end is not easy for non developer users.
- BDM has some disadvantages.
- Migration tools for update arent easy to deal with.