Bonita Reviews

• Ease of implementation
• Reduced cycle time to implement a process
• Studio provides an opportunity to get early feedback from real users and quickly change the process and forms

7 months

No

No issues.

No issues.

Customer Service:

Good

Technical Support:

Excellent

No previous solutions.

In-house

** Collaborative model based on a shared BPM repository ** Business process models and various integrated Look'n'feel Custom ** Assistance for queries creation, connectors and component services ** Java REST API + EJB2/EJB3 and Clustering ** Research data and processes + Error Handling ** Application server Tomcat, JOnAS, JBoss, and Weblogic and other ** Multiple connectors (ERP, CRM, Web Services, Social Networks, ECM, Google products, couriers ... etc..) for free use ** Mobile portal available (rendering and performance not tested yet) ** BPM engine used on platform or isolated ** Research modules on our implemented data and processes

N/A

* The support is mandatory to access all features (Subscription), may they can have a different business model * Requires programming knowledge for implementation and management of heterogeneous connectors. I'll advice to combine some features/connectors for internal offer without using an external editor * Rules engine recently added and with gaps, must be optimized

I used Bonita for prototypes and small projects to demonstrate its functionnalities

Yes, some because lack of knowledge on the product

No

I didn't test the product in greater perimeter.

Customer Service: Very good, also the commercial team !Technical Support: Perfect ! and the community is a great help also

No

A little complex for a non initiate person

I was the vendor...

N/A

Yes, for the study. ACTIVITI, IBM BPM and BIZAGI

It's a good product and a rich service behind that

The solution has good graphics and a good user interface.

The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution.

I've been using the solution for three years.

The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable.

I'm not a developer and the community edition is limited, so I can't speak to the scalability of the solution. I'm the only user of the solution in the company. Currently, I'm testing it to see how it works.

I've never had to contact technical support.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

The community version of the solution is very straightforward to set up. It was quick to deploy on the desktop.

We use the on-premises deployment model and the Bonita Community Edition of the solution.

I can recommend the solution. It's very robust. I'd rate it seven out of ten; I'd rate it higher if the community edition was able to offer more collaboration capabilities.

It is powerful in developing applications.

The GUI designer must be improved. When you generate a form it does not generate so well.

Three to five years.

I have not encountered issues with stability.

I have not encountered issues with scalability.

I would rate the level of technical support as highly effective.

I did not previously use a different solution. 

This solution was relatively complex to implement.

This is a very good financial choice.

It is a great product but it has a considerable learning curve.

1. User friendly
2. Easy implementation
3. Reduced cycle time to implement a process
4. Bonita Studio provides a more look & feel and flexibility for changing the process and forms

BPM helps to automate complicated processes.

It requires improvements for better look & feel and for flexibility in changing the code in the portal.

It's been four years.

No issues.

Customer Service:

Good

Technical Support:

The community forums are very good for providing answers on technical issues.

It is a good product!

Real java-like hooks into development of the business process model. The Connector implementation is a great addition to an out-of-box solution providing robust features for the developer to build hassle-free integrations. I also really liked the way Bonitasoft lets you define and configure how your connector interface is exposed to others leveraging your custom connector.

Would love for some of the documentation to be better, since there are many great functionalities built into the product!

No

At times Bonita BPM Studio crashes, intermittently.

Customer Service:

9

Technical Support:

9

No, very straight forward.

In-house.

I have been using Bonita to develop processes using the Bonita Studio. We have only been using it for simple, object console processes. 

The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried.

I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation. They should include more examples, as well as sample source code.

We have to relied on community support because we are using the open-source version. There are community websites available to help.

We are using the Community Version, which can be used free of charge.

I was having some trouble running my processes so I have compared Bonita with some other open-source BPM solutions.

In general, Bonita is a very good solution. It is open-source and has a good UI. I find that it is the best in terms of management for BPM features.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Private Cloud

I use Bonita to build web applications.

The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it.

Bonita can improve by offering more flexibility. The developer does not receive the code of the application to modify it. Most of the other solutions I have used allow the developers to change or improve the code that is generated.

I have been using Bonita for three months.

Bonita is stable.

I have used Camunda previously and Camunda is more lightweight than Bonita.

The initial Bonita is easy, but there are a lot of steps to follow. The setup should be easier for designers.

I am using the free version of Bonita.

I rate Bonita a nine out of ten.