Overall Satisfaction with Bonita 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.
- In our small company the community edition suited our needs. Although it is hard to talk about ROI in context of that small application.
- We have introduced the platform to several companies. Delivering things faster, ensuring things are done, optimizing distribution and reporting what has been done are the most common benefits.
I found Bonita BPM a more friendly environment, especially when it comes to front-end development. It is also better suited for a gradual introduction to an organization - PoC with Community edition, later upgrade to one of the subscription editions as needed. Tibco's product has partial case management support and stateful tasks, though.