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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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March 11, 2024
A BPM software to answer your business needs
We developed a solution based on the Bonita Platform to allow users to
subscribe to services and automate the validation of those
subscriptions. The workflow controls the eligibility of the user to
subscribe, call multiple micro-services, and respond with the list of
services available. If anything fails, depending on the type of error,
the main workflow is automatically retried using an error handling
workflow or ended with the detailed error saved.
- Automation of the steps in the workflow
- Configuration allows the workflow to be independent of the environment in which it is deployed
- The detailed case for the users to follow and manage the status and the synthesis of the case
- Easier and more opened integration in K8s environment
- Missing debugging mode during development phase
January 08, 2024
BonitaSoft BPM review.
We use BonitaSoft as our workflow and low code/no code platform. We've implemented it for business processes like logistics, supply chain, and manufacturing, from simple approval flows to more complex applications with integrations to other systems: ERP, Reporting/BI, etc.
- BPMN compatible.
- Process flow design.
- Self documentation.
- API authentication for more complex Enterprise grade.
- Overall stability on the development side.
- Supporting more scripting languages.
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 17, 2022
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Bonita Platform is a process manager and process orchestrator that is used to control the business process and create an organized sequence that is easily modifiable and allows an agile correction of errors and easy process definition.
- easly process definition
- easly modification of process flow
- compatibility whit anothers external tecnologies
- grafic interface optimization
- BonitaStudio optimization on open workspaces
May 10, 2022
Bonita Platform for Digital Transfromation
We use Bonita Platform for process automation in a wide range of solutions, from simple process automation to complex projects, implementing orchestration and choreography of processes using Bonita BPM. As our developers have a Java background, we don´t face problems implementing solutions based on the Bonita Platform, but this is also due to the fact that we made the Bonita courses for developers and administrators.
- BPMN modeling
- Implementation of business logic
- Integration with external systems
- Layer division: database, business/process logic and front-end
- widgets
It is used as the process engine of the organization, where the bank's core processes are implemented, it is used as a backend and also as a front used by offices, sales forces, and from the website. The digital transformation of the business has been supported by this tool as it is the engine that orchestrates the asset contracting processes. As problems in the tool, problems have been seen in the queries of cases and in the performance of the portal due to the queries and work events that the tool handles and does not manage so quickly
- Compatibility and integration with other tools and platforms
- Rapid evolution and problem solving in its versions, it has evolved a lot since Bonita 5
- It supports open source and the development tools it provides are good like UI designer.
- There is a lack of a robust native BAM monitoring module for performance variables of the developed applications
- more robust cron or timer event task management without leaving tasks open in the tool
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.
October 05, 2021
To kill an ant you don't need missiles. Bonita provided all the OOTB features that can be the best option for your business needs.
We are using the Bonita Platform to address our BPM-related requirements. Currently, we are in the process of migrating our Pega-BPM application to the Bonita platform considering the user license freedom as well as open-source flexibility. We are also looking for an opportunity to explore their party OCR tool integration to serve our invoice automation business.
- Easy work flow configuration.
- Integration service design.
- UI component design.
- Micro services integration.
- OOTB UI component.
- Industry specific pre-build framework.
- OOTB reusable component.
February 14, 2017
Bonita BPM - Low cost, low code efficient platform
- It is a very low cost platform. You can start with open-source edition which is free and with the application number growth upgrade to subscription editions for more features and support. Subscription editions are still not expensive compared to bigger players platforms.
- It offers a great UI designer tool for rapid building process forms and web applications.
- It gives a lot of flexibility and extensibility. It comes with features like built-in connectors, convenient API, and a web portal. You can add your own connectors, extend the API and customize the portal for your own needs.
- There is only one business data model. Even if deploying new processes does not require stopping the platform, the BDM update requires it.
- During the platform evolution often new bugs were introduced so it was risky to deploy the platform in the low minor version. For example, there were memory leaks from 7.2.0 to 7.2.3.
- The administrator portal could be improved. It is hard to look at subprocess data, for example and it is sometimes better to investigate with SQL queries. I don't like new (7.3) task list either.
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 07, 2016
Great Open Source BPM tool
We are using it as a VAR to support our product development.
- We like it that it is open source.
- Easy to use with good management tools.
- The technology using AngularJS framework
- We like to see more API tools to allow integration with third party tools.
- Better report writer and analytics tools.
March 04, 2016
BonitaBPM Why or Why Not
We are a software company that uses Bonita BPM as the BPM Engine to customize our clients workflow processes and deliver a superior and high scale product that can be utilized in their every day needs within their departments/organization. The clients range from defense contractors, private contractors and a few select commercial companies.
- Bonita uses JBoss and is very easily integrated with Java if using API calls or even their REST services.
- Bonita has the use of JasperReports which makes it easier for us to build reports on our own and attach them as part of the process.
- Bonita Development Studio is very slow in performance. It's built on top of Eclipse BUT one needs too much patience to work with the development studio.
- I have used up till v6.3 so I am not aware of the latest and greatest features on v7.x. But I would like full control on what we can display and how we display things on BPM Admin and User Portal to the customer. Be able to use latest and greatest technology like Angular and less frameworks (They already have less).
- Development Studio should have the capability of communicating with an enterprise database server such as SQL or Oracle. The inbuilt Bonita Database is not that reliable for developers.