Bonita vs CA Process Automation comparison

Bonitasoft and Broadcom are both solutions in the Process Automation category. Bonitasoft is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.2, while Broadcom is ranked #37. Bonitasoft holds a 5.2% mindshare in PA, compared to Broadcom’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Bonitasoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Bonita

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96% willing to recommend

CA Process Automation

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Bonita and CA Process Automation are products designed for business process management. Bonita leads in pricing and support, while CA Process Automation is noted for its extensive features.

Features: Bonita offers robust workflow management, seamless application integration, and a user-friendly interface. CA Process Automation excels in advanced automation, comprehensive task scheduling, and deep system integration.

Room for Improvement: Bonita could enhance its feature set for more sophisticated automation tasks, improve task scheduling capabilities, and provide better customization tools. CA Process Automation might benefit from simplifying its complex deployment model, offering more intuitive user interfaces, and reducing setup complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bonita is valued for its straightforward setup and responsive customer support. CA Process Automation offers extensive customization in deployment but requires a deeper understanding, supported by detailed documentation for enhanced user autonomy.

Pricing and ROI: Bonita is cost-effective, leading to a quick ROI, ideal for budget-sensitive businesses. CA Process Automation involves a higher initial investment but delivers significant long-term ROI through its advanced functionality.

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Categories and Ranking

Bonita

Ranking in Process Automation

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (10th), Business Process Management (BPM) (14th)

CA Process Automation

Ranking in Process Automation

37th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Bonita is 5.2%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CA Process Automation is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Process Automation

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations

The initial setup is straightforward and can be completed with the environment within an hour. First, take the latest from the git repository and check the git code to the monitor studio and a bar file, a deployable Bonita archive file. Then, take that process to the Bonita server, running at runtime on another server. Finally, deploy and enable it by selecting the proper organization.

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it_user464568

Design Lead at CSC

Provides the ability to import objects as new versions of existing objects and to make the prior version the current version.

CA offers minimal public information pertaining to the performance drain the usage of some objects and operators introduce to processing. As an example, swim lanes within a process provide an excellent means of organizing operators within a process, but they can introduce substantial performance issues. As another example, it’s better to perform verbose JavaScript execution within a Run JavaScript operator instead of within another operator’s pre- or post-execution script. As yet another example, it’s better to hard-code variables within the process dataset as opposed to creating the variables at run-time. The biggest issue for me is its lack of support for current JavaScript methods and functions, which makes scripts unnecessarily longer than they need to be. It seemed I could only rely on the methods and functions available in ECMA 1 (which was released in 1997), but that wasn’t a deal-breaker and the product is capable of extending its capabilities through the inclusion of other code libraries.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I really enjoy using the workflow management."

"Bonita is user-friendly."

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

"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."

"The user interface is easy to use."

"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."

"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."

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

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"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."

"It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."

Cons

"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."

"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."

"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."

"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."

"The dashboard has limited features."

"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."

"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."

"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."

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"OCR capability should be added as a feature."

"It needs auto-triggering of workflows based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)."

"Somehow the product group within CA left the product dry from some regular expression functionality."

"Make some of the features more open source that way developers can have more flexibility."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The Enterprise edition is very expensive."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"The product is not cheaper, not costlier; it is reasonable. Bonita’s license is very flexible, with options to meet the needs of different customers and clients. Previously, it was less flexible, but now, many different licensing options are available."

"I am using the free version of Bonita."

"Price to service ratio with Bonita BPM is good."

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

"The Community Edition comes free of charge."

"have installed the image of Bonita BPM on Amazon AWS and there is just one option to use and pay for."

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"It has provided ROI by auto resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."

"There are a lot of automation savings from any process which is repeatable."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

How does Bonita compare with Camunda Platform?

One of the things we like best about Bonita is that you can create without coding - it is a low-code platform. With Bonita, you can build the entire mechanism using the GUI, it’s that simple. You c...

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What do you like most about Bonita?

The user interface is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bonita?

The Enterprise edition is very expensive.

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Also Known As

Bonita BPM

CA IT Process Automation Manager

Overview

Bonitasoft helps innovative companies worldwide deliver better digital user experiences for customers and employees. The extensible and open Bonita application platform unleashes the full potential of multidisciplinary development teams to create Living Apps: applications that allow continuous and incremental improvement, connecting tailored user interfaces with reliable back-office operations.

Bonitasoft

CA Process Automation is designed to speed the delivery of IT services while helping to remove manual errors. By defining, automating and orchestrating processes across organizational silos that use disparate systems, CA Process Automation helps improve productivity while also enforcing standards. With CA Process Automation, you can automate IT processes that span multiple organizations and systems, reduce the time it takes to deliver services and enforce standards and compliance policies across departments. CA Process Automation helps you automate IT processes to reduce operational expenses, increase staff productivity, speed IT service delivery, improve service quality, and enforce compliance policies.

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Sample Customers

With more than 1000 customers in 75 countries, and its ecosystem of more than 120,000 members, Bonitasoft is the largest provider of open-source Business Process Management, Low-code and Digital Transformation software worldwide.

Unum, HCL Technologies, Logicalis

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