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Bonita Platform

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

BonitaSoft BPM review.

10 out of 10
January 08, 2024
Incentivized
We use BonitaSoft as our workflow and low code/no code platform. We've implemented it for business processes like logistics, supply chain, …
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Bonita for BPM !

10 out of 10
December 23, 2022
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Bonita platform is used for an HR portal, including data and process from HR and others entity, using connector extensions to get and put …
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BonitaSoft review

5 out of 10
May 17, 2022
Incentivized
Building a solution to modelize client processes and use Bonita API to link our Bonita model with our custom micro-services.
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9 out of 10
May 17, 2022
Incentivized
Bonita Platform is a process manager and process orchestrator that is used to control the business process and create an organized …
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Bonita at a glance

7 out of 10
December 29, 2021
Incentivized
For workflow automation to save time and cost, which will be an ongoing process and change based on business requirements. We are …
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Popular Features

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  • Process designer (52)
    8.7
    87%
  • Business rules engine (42)
    8.1
    81%
  • Form builder (48)
    7.9
    79%
  • Model execution (48)
    7.6
    76%

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Pricing

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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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  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.bonitasoft.com/pricing

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

7.3
Avg 8.2

Process Engine

Designing and building process models

7.8
Avg 8.4

Collaboration

Collaboration tools allowing BPM experts to collaborate on model design

7
Avg 8.2

Content Management Capabilties

Lightweight tool for managing content

6.8
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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

Bonita Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Process designed in Bonita BPM StudioScreenshot of Bonita BPM project overviewScreenshot of Fully customized end user interfaceScreenshot of Bonita BPM Admin App

Bonita Platform Video

The Bonita platform for digital process automation

Bonita Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish, 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.

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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May 17, 2022

BonitaSoft review

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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)
In my point of view it was hard to get matches between our process and the datas we need to get from Bonita process because the API is complex and gets many methods deprecated.
Process Engine (6)
58.33333333333333%
5.8
Process designer
70%
7.0
Business rules engine
70%
7.0
SOA support
50%
5.0
Support for modeling languages
50%
5.0
Form builder
60%
6.0
Model execution
50%
5.0
Collaboration (1)
50%
5.0
Social collaboration tools
50%
5.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
63.33333333333333%
6.3
Dashboards
70%
7.0
Standard reports
70%
7.0
Custom reports
50%
5.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
60%
6.0
Content management
60%
6.0
  • Good for agility because easy tu use and to understand for software engineers and analysts
I didn't use others products from Bonita Platform.
Api difficult to use. Get to build some custom mapping wit our java application.
i wasn't very involved on this part of the process.
10
Software engineers
Software skills to implements complex process Analysis and client business skills to describe new processes
  • Give to clients the possibility to subscribe new offers by themselves
  • Connecting bonita dashboard to a complete custom front application
  • I don't know
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
I wasn't involved in selection process.
  • Don't know
  • I'm not sure about this answer
No sorry
No.
No
No but the support team was available to help us when needed.
It was sometimes difficult to get support on Bonita API.
  • Tasks monitoring
  • Process vizualisation
  • Sharing datas between Bonita processes and our custom micro services
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Bonita Platform is being used as the basis for a research project and as a BPMS in undergraduate disciplines. The research project is being validated with the implementation of a Process Automation Office, having already implemented five internal processes at the UFSC Institution (HEI). The following criteria were defined for mapping and selecting processes: in cycle #1, they should preferably be primary processes for the CTC sponsor, especially those that are common to other academic units at HEI; cycle #2 should be shorter, in order to adjust the BPAO model; in cycle #3, the BPAO lifecycle method of process automation should be reapplied with another institutional instance, external to the CTC, and higher hierarchically in HEI.
  • Phases of process automation.
  • Process modeling.
  • Handling.
  • Organization structure.
  • Usability of automated processes.
  • Processes documentation.
Bonita Platform is better suited for organizations with well-defined structure. Bonita is also very efficient in both simple and complex processes, allowing for easy integration with legacy systems. Bonita Platform faces difficulties with information technology sectors focusing on classic methodologies for developing software solutions.
Process Engine (6)
91.66666666666666%
9.2
Process designer
90%
9.0
Business rules engine
90%
9.0
SOA support
100%
10.0
Support for modeling languages
80%
8.0
Form builder
90%
9.0
Model execution
100%
10.0
Collaboration
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics
N/A
N/A
Content Management Capabilties
N/A
N/A
  • Agile automation.
  • Lower automation costs.
  • Increased efficiency of work processes.
As I mentioned in another answer to this research, the non-functional usability requirement is one of the weaknesses of Bonita, especially with the mechanisms for generating interfaces, but also in the development environment.
Integration with legacy systems is very efficient through connectors and web services.
700
8
  • National Leave (including daily and tickets).
  • Daily and guest tickets.
  • Outside leave (including daily and tickets).
  • Business process automation office model.
  • Automation of process indicators on the way to continuous process improvement.
  • Process modeling.
  • Connectors.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Bonita BPM will work well for any organization, big or small. It is simple to use and robust at the same time.
  • User interface
  • User interface designer
  • Process designer
Process Engine (6)
51.66666666666667%
5.2
Process designer
100%
10.0
Process simulation
N/A
N/A
Process player
N/A
N/A
Support for modeling languages
70%
7.0
Form builder
80%
8.0
Model execution
60%
6.0
Collaboration (1)
N/A
N/A
Social collaboration tools
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics (3)
60%
6.0
Dashboards
80%
8.0
Standard reports
50%
5.0
Custom reports
50%
5.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
20%
2.0
Content management
20%
2.0
  • It has reduced processing time for travel request and vendor payment by about 70%
Bonita BPM is simpler to use, development is faster and you don't have to write complicated codes to deploy new processes.
500
accounting, procurement, risk management, and credit underwriting
Software development, data analysis and business analysis
  • Vendor payment
  • Credit processing
  • Travel request
  • New employee interview and onboarding
  • Customer interface
We just renewed our license
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
We have used Bonita for five years so we have some experience with it. Moreover, there is nothing strong enough in other software we considered to make us change
I don't think we would change the evaluation process. We already have a standardized evaluation process for software selection and we evaluated six software before we chose Bonita.
  • Third-party professional services
Datafrica Consulting
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
A champion is needed from every division in the enterprise, we failed to realize this at the beginning. But later we selected a willing champion from every part of the organization and they helped with advancing the needed change throughout the organization
  • Getting a consultant to work with on implementation
It is better implemented with in-house expertise.
Support from Bonita has not been as good as we would want it to be
Yes
No
We have a consultant we work with now, we prefer that to Bonita professional support. We are also working on getting our own internal support.
It is so simple to use that sometimes we don't have to train people on how to use our processes or navigate the platform.
  • Process monitoring
  • User interface
  • process design
  • Process analysis
  • Process KPI
  • Searching for cases or tasks
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