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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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Bonita at a glance

7 out of 10
December 29, 2021
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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/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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What is Kure?

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Features

Reporting & Analytics

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

7.2
Avg 8.1

Process Engine

Designing and building process models

7.7
Avg 8.4

Collaboration

Collaboration tools allowing BPM experts to collaborate on model design

6.9
Avg 8.2

Content Management Capabilties

Lightweight tool for managing content

6.9
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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pranshu Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We on-boarded Bonita BPM to solve a basic organization-wide workflow management. Right now there are more than 20 processes implemented. IT has tremendously brought down the number of emails exchanged and paper-based approvals. Simple activities like having an escalation mechanism were implemented in workflows which enabled high productivity and SLA based tracking.

The best part is that this tool gave the business the cool swim-lane process views before they sign it off to be implemented into the system.
Maciej Michalak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Bonita BPM to a small extent, because we are small organisation. Bonita BPM is used mainly for supporting contracts management. Our experience is built on deploying the platform to our clients.
richard gay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

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)
Alberto Alvarez Besada | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Bonita BPM is being used by the credit analysis departments, regarding credit card authorizations, car credits, and so on. The application in which Bonita BPM is involved, aims to address automatization, control and traceability of credit factory processes, where too many different skilled people work. These kind of applications allows managing staff keep control of what and how their core processes are being executed.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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!
Clive Rethman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
David Edson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
March 04, 2016

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Ben Courliss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our project was to create a self-service portal for onboarding to specific engineering applications my team deployed and supported. During the design and architecture phase of our project, we evaluated multiple methods of creating workflows for our users and settled on BPM and Bonita specifically. We attempted to then integrate that with our online presence which was an AngularJS application with a Java/Spring/Hibernate backend.
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