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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 19, 2022
Review of Bonita after a POC
I used Bonita to make a proof of concept for a new application for one of our client. It will be used to handle tax declarations.
It will replace an existing purpose-built application that is old and un-upgradable. It will also give the client way more control over its processes and workflows.
- Great customization possibilities
- Gives many ways to handle a problem
- Great community
- Some areas of the interface are older than others
- The SQL connectors are a bit awkward to use (you have to click a significant amount of time before getting to the SQL commands)
December 15, 2022
Experience of Working with Bonita Platform
I have used the Bonita Platform Enterprise Edition for creating the POC tasks to check the feasibility of the functionality which was implemented using the other Business Process Management Tool and I have achieved the same functionality using the Bonita Platform. I have also worked on various features like UI, themes, rest API, connectors, and BDM in the Bonita Platform version 2021.2 and am also able to customize them according to the product needs. Customizing the pages, themes, profiles, etc. is very easy with the Bonita Platform and we can achieve it with normal knowledge of programming languages. One can easily deploy their applications using the Bonita Platform CI/CD feature and the reflection of changes are very smooth and efficient.
- Customization of the charts on the pages.
- Smooth and efficient deployment using Bonita Platform ci/cd.
- Connectors integration with wide varieties of third party applications.
- SOAP connector and outlook email Integration.
- Roles in the profiles.
- Landing page customization is not possible.
May 17, 2022
BonitaSoft review
Building a solution to modelize client processes and use Bonita API to link our Bonita model with our custom micro-services.
- Clear and easy modelization
- sometimes difficult to use Bonita API and to get bonita datas in our process (many deprecated methods with no replacement)
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.
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 07, 2019
Best BPM tool for maintenance, improvements and a horizontal view of your business requirements
Bonita BPM is in my opinion the best BPM solution currently in the market. I developed my master's degree final assessment evaluating this technology along side with YAWL and jBPM, resulting in Bonita being the best of the three for small to big companies and environments.
In my organization I implemented the registry of non-conformance to allow users to submit company-related complaints and this was a complete success based on the extended capabilities of Bonita BPM from UI design to reporting.
In my organization I implemented the registry of non-conformance to allow users to submit company-related complaints and this was a complete success based on the extended capabilities of Bonita BPM from UI design to reporting.
- UI design
- Workflow using BPMN
- Use of Java code
- Integration using connectors
- I can only think of database connection, it could be improved for a better and shorter experience connecting the data since this is a low-code technology.
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.
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
October 12, 2016
BonitaSoft Review
We don't have Bonita currently in our organization. We have several projects in progress for particular clients for which we offer consultancy.
- Bonita UI Editor is using latest technologies and is very easy to develop. You have complete freedom.
- Living application as part of version 7 brings huge functionality for custom development.
- Modifying case instances in production environment can be easily done from the portal.
- The big list of connectors.
- API system allows you to easily access all the data you need.
- The BPM API system has no security and all authenticated users can access data with no restrictions. This can impact data security across different departments.
- You have no option to deploy processes directly from Bonita Studio in the production environment.
- Security for Bonita's Java API system should also be reviewed. Normal users should not have the possibility to access engine information.
August 30, 2016
An opinion about Bonita
Bonita BPM is good software that makes it to possible implement a sequence of steps quite easily. In the HR department, for example, we implemented an important process with a concrete result. It resolved a task that created a simple way to follow a process.
- Mapping the steps of the process
- Connection with a SQL Server is very simple
- Connection with web services based on the SOAP protocol
- HR processes that include candidate requests (a new employee)
- Initiation of a new project
- Quotation mapping
- The documentation does not have enough samples or examples. This is the weak point of Bonita BPM.
July 22, 2016
Bonita a workflow tools
We are currently implementing Bonita in my company for the following process onboarding, offboarding, leaving requests.
The challenges we are facing today is the business value that is not well understood by the business regarding what an application like Bonita can provide them. They would like a big data from workflow but that's not the purpose of a software like Bonita, it's only a first step to do that!
The challenges we are facing today is the business value that is not well understood by the business regarding what an application like Bonita can provide them. They would like a big data from workflow but that's not the purpose of a software like Bonita, it's only a first step to do that!
- Designing Workflow
- Bonita connectors
- Lightweight
- Task assignment
- User interface
- Data saving
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.
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 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 Rocks!
I am currently using Bonita BPM to enable care coordination services for patients who are receiving care at home and in skilled nursing facilities.
- Excellent process authoring studio and experience. Fully featured but incredibly extensible.
- Excellent ability to author and attach forms, using a system that de-couples form development from the process engine but still has a powerful form environment.
- Difficult to understand the difference between the pool and the first task. The UI barely differentiates them. Sometimes this is confusing to new users who click the "start" icon instead of the pool and lose track of where the starting contract is.
- Need a better way to deliver forms that does not use IFRAMES.
March 03, 2016
BonitaBPM in Education Business
The University of Auckland has a plan to use BonitaBPM across the organisation. It automates most of the paper forms and helps to improve integration with other systems.
- Provides good business support.
- Decouples front-end and backend modules.
- BonitaBPM's flexible architecture gives the ability to extend this platform.
- Managing BDM database.
- Extend predefined stable connector list.
- Provide more examples of REST API usage.