Item: Bonita Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bonita platform is used for an HR portal, including data and process from HR and others entity, using connector extensions to get and put information from and in other applications. The goal is « just say once and we present everything for you ». We also use Bonita platform for financial processes, with a 0-error result.

Pros and Cons

Extension connector : easy to create custom ones
Security by profile : every action and custom REST API in our custom applications is controled by native security mechanism
Custom REST API : each lane in every process include its own custom REST API method to control data access all the time

Update BDM data just asynchronously by a process is a big problem. We always need to find bypasses to prevent errors due to this mechanism. Synchronous updates would be appreciate.
Use of BDM updates is limited in processes. We must locate BDM updates in the right script.
BDM update are just possible by a process which means to create processes tu update data in production mode. It’s not as easy as a SQL script to update data in a database.
Update resource in a process like connector, form or scripts. We had to change a template in a docx connector and we had to create a new process version

Return on Investment

Say it once

Alternatives Considered

RHPAM is maybe a very good BPM process engine but is very limited to build a complete application.

We also try site soft W4 which needs more developments to build an application. We finally choose Bonita which is easier to get ready with.

Key Insights

Do you think Bonita Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Bonita Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Bonita Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Bonita Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Bonita Platform again?

Yes

Usability

Bonita platform is easy to get ready with. And more complete feature are quite easy to get ready with.

Extensibility

Bonita platform is OK with our technical stack.
With BCD component, we were able to build our own CI.
We cannot use BCD component for CD but use of REST API to do so was a easy way to to so

Likelihood to Recommend

Very good : to design and execute business processes with just a few data. You can use BDM and it’s easy.
It’s really easy to get data from external applications using custom connectors.

less appropriate : if you use complex BDM tree objects, using them in form can significantly decrease performance. Be careful to follow guidelines that are given in Bonita Documentation.

Bonita for BPM !

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Bonita Platform