Bonita vs Camunda comparison

Bonitasoft and Camunda are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bonitasoft is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while Camunda is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2. Bonitasoft holds a 4.3% mindshare in BPD, compared to Camunda’s 11.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Bonitasoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Camunda users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 27, 2024

We compared Bonita and Camunda based on our user's reviews in several parameters.

User reviews indicate that Bonita is highly praised for its user-friendly interface, customization options, seamless integration, and process automation. On the other hand, Camunda stands out for its exceptional workflow management, task allocation, and tracking abilities. While Bonita focuses on user satisfaction and cost-effective pricing, Camunda excels in customer service and flexible licensing options. Areas for improvement in Bonita include the user interface and integration capabilities, while Camunda could benefit from more intuitive interfaces and better documentation.

Features: The valuable features of Bonita include a user-friendly interface, powerful workflow management capabilities, comprehensive customization options, seamless integration with existing systems, and efficient process automation. On the other hand, Camunda is praised for its exceptional workflow management capabilities, task allocation and tracking efficiency, seamless integration with other systems, user-friendly graphical interface, flexible customization options, and reliable performance.

Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Bonita is reported to be straightforward and hassle-free, ensuring an easy implementation process. Users appreciate that the licensing aspect of Bonita offers flexibility with different options. For Camunda, users find the setup cost not overly complicated or time-consuming, with licensing praised for being flexible and accommodating., Users have reported positive ROI from both Bonita and Camunda. Bonita focuses on optimizing processes and improving efficiency, while Camunda excels in streamlining business processes and improving workflow management, leading to increased productivity and cost-effectiveness.

Room for Improvement: Bonita has room for improvement in terms of user interface, functionality, ease of use, and integration capabilities. On the other hand, Camunda could enhance its user interface, documentation, and integration capabilities to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.

Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Bonita focus on highlighting the importance of considering both deployment and setup timeframes, and the experiences of users in implementing the tech solution. On the other hand, the reviews for Camunda mention varying durations for deployment and setup, emphasizing the need to evaluate the context in which the terms are used., Bonita's customer service stands out due to the helpful and responsive assistance provided by their team. Users appreciate the advice and guidance received, which exceeded their expectations. On the other hand, Camunda's customer service receives positive acclaim for its prompt response times and helpful assistance. Users express satisfaction with the reliability, effectiveness, expertise, and professionalism exhibited throughout their interactions.

The summary above is based on 28 interviews we conducted recently with Bonita and Camunda users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.

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IBM Blueworks Live

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of IBM Blueworks Live is 3.5%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bonita is 4.3%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Camunda is 11.6%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design

Q&A Highlights

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Nov 15, 2021

How does Bonita compare with Camunda Platform?

In a broad perspective when you compare Camunda & Bonita they have the below features: Camunda features: BPM Workflow Automation Automation Project Management Task Management Bonita features: BPM Workflow Automation

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Featured Reviews

AjarMathur

Global Innovation Director at Ernst & Young

Jul 5, 2023

An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease

IBM Blueworks is BPMN 2.0 compliant, but it does not adapt to the overarching BPMN 2.0 concepts. There is only one kind of BPMN 2.0 diagram. It is a process diagram. It doesn't have the concept of separate tools, which other products offer. If I had to do a hardcore BPMN 2.0 modeling, the product would have its own reservations. There were features we could not explore from a BPMN 2.0 perspective. Most of the time, people who are shifting from Microsoft Office tools to a digitized way of working still want the reporting capabilities to be strong. Some tools, like ARIS or Signavio, offer customized solutions from the reporting perspective. If I have documented my whole finance process and want to fetch out a complete SOP report in a very customized manner, IBM Blueworks cannot provide it. We have to rely on some other services. So that's one area in which we always struggled, how to really customize the reporting aspects. I understand that we need to keep the tool a little more asset-light. It's very difficult to keep adding many options, but at least a few BPMN 2.0 options were needed. We have been suggesting to IBM that we should have some way of customizing the reporting. At least we should get a custom way of reporting it into different formats like Excel or putting up a logo for one of the clients so that their SAP can be printed that way.

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

Sep 18, 2023

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

Bonita is a college course automation system. Some students may fall behind in their curriculum, but if they drop out, we will accept dropout students’ requests and consider the quests. We then ensure that the course is completed on time Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to…

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Peter Broucke

Enterprise Architect at Proximus

Apr 23, 2024

Support is good (even the basic one), documentation is readily available and matches the need for agile development

Probably one area I look forward to has to do with AI and how Camunda sees the AI angle on workflow. I know they're working on that or at least communicating about it. They already have versions to run on the cloud, so they've tackled that. We're looking at what they will come up with otherwise. As long as the product gets enough traction and evolves, we're happy. With open source, you can monitor what's happening. If the product is being left by many customers, that's a sign. We're also users of Camunda, and you can watch one of our guides' presentations in the States about one of our implementations. Our focus now is on developing service management and DMN APIs for the platform. AI is something we take into consideration, but we'll see what additional benefits it could bring and how to interconnect it with our data or AI engineering.

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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

"The licenses are transferrable between different users."

"The reporting that we can generate from IBM Blueworks Live has been interesting. We found the KPIs, risks, process modeling, format, and colors, to be very good. We use the EY template and it is interesting to generate reporting in this format."

"In terms of the collaboration features, from the point of discovery, it was useful to go to load up the policies and the rule sets that the client had. And in terms of exploring options and being able to model a variety of different processes, that was incredibly useful as well."

"The ease of documenting and digitizing the processes was valuable to us."

"For me, what I find to be the most valuable is its simplicity and the association with Microsoft Office."

"The solution is easy to operate. Also, there is an automatic mode to make the business flow. You don't have to put any lines or arrows in a decision point in IBM Blueworks Live; it's very automatic."

"For me the most valuable feature is that it's one depository for our bank. So it's not like everybody has their critical processes on SharePoint or on their desktops. Everything is centrally located. It's very intuitive, easy to use. The support that I get from IBM is always great."

"Collaboration is most valuable. You can collaborate online with many people. People can comment, and you can comment back. It is just like a social network, and that, for me, is very good."

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"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."

"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."

"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."

"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."

"Development of forms and flows."

"The user interface is easy to use."

"I really enjoy using the workflow management."

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

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"I think that the positives of Camunda Platform are that our customers can start with the free version. I think it is the most important."

"Camunda is a scalable product."

"Easy to use and easy to integrate into the products and applications we provide for our customers."

"Provides an easy way to integrate with the architectural environment."

"We have the ability to modify the product if we need to, and that comes in handy whenever we need to add new functionality and features."

"There's this graphic that tells you how many lines or how many tickets are in each step. In that way, you know where you stand. I find this feature very valuable."

"The graphical interface is very beneficial."

"Being able to use a Java-based solution makes the product flexible."

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Cons

"I would like to see integration with ERP systems. This would help us to simulate the process and see where the problems are. Though IBM Blueworks Live is a good tool for documenting, it is not good for simulating."

"Spaces are not well organized; space controls are lacking."

"I can't insert any images. For example, within the process map, if I want to put it in the box or rectangle, or circle. If I have to use one image or icon, that's not possible."

"The font size is really, really small and it's really not useful to print out process models because you cannot read what's written in different boxes. This makes it necessary for people to have access to the tool. We view licenses to see how the printing or output is. It's not very good."

"We would like the ability to add additional custom colors. We would like to color additional items to add notes to the blueprint."

"Sometimes, the tool is automatic, which can complicate it, but once you're accustomed to manipulating it, you can use it very effectively."

"In the solution Signavio, they have a customer journey mapping feature that should be added to IBM Blueworks Live. It's valuable to map or document the customer journey to identify the pains and opportunities in this process."

"The objects that the solution creates are not unique."

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"Installation could be made easier."

"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."

"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."

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

"The dashboard has limited features."

"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."

"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."

"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."

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"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."

"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."

"Customization and tech stack could be up-to-date."

"They have a migration plugin that can be used to migrate from one BPM to another BPM. It is in the beta stage since last year. If they can make it available in the market, it would be great. We are going to have a couple of migration projects for migrating from IBM BPM to Camunda, and this plugin would be useful. I have already discussed this with them two weeks ago and asked them to look into this and add it as a feature. We are expecting this plugin to be available in the next version. This is the only requirement we have at present. They keep on coming up with different features, which is helping us a lot. Its latest release that came out last month was awesome."

"Initial setup can be quite complex."

"It lacks some preset features and configurations which would make it more plug-and-play for customers."

"The latency of API could be decreased."

"We're trying to put the people from the business to do it. We are using APIs, and we have open APIs to define our APIs and the request-response that each call requires and sends. So, to base the mapping on that, there was nothing to help. I know that with some tools, such as Oracle tools, you can see the input and expected output. With drag and drop, you can take one property from the left and drag it to the right, and it does all the mapping itself, but that's not the case with Camunda. So, for me, this is something that can be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They have a free subscription model that gives a lot of power to the users."

"We are seeing ROI from this solution. The solution has saved us time."

"Making it less expensive would be good."

"There are editor licenses that are around 50 euros per month, and contributor licenses that are around 30 euros per month."

"Based on the licenses purchased, from a footprint perspective, you can have as many people as you want. You have multiple different categories of licenses to keep the cost low."

"The solution is very, very cost-effective."

"The solution is not very expensive."

"Price wise, IBM Blueworks Live is in the middle range, and I would give it a five out of ten."

"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."

"The price is fair for what we are using the solution for."

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

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

"I am using the free version of Bonita."

"Licensing cost for the Enterprise edition comes out to be around 40,000 a year. There is also a Community edition, which is free. Some customers can go for the Community edition, but some of them require the Enterprise edition. Big companies go for the Enterprise edition, which comes with a lot of additional features such as a mobile app."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"The Community Edition comes free of charge."

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"We are using the open-source version, free of charge. We didn't bother with the enterprise features."

"The cost of this solution is better than some competing products."

"The license is quite expensive, which is why we went with the community version."

"We are using the open-source version of this solution."

"We are using the community version. There is no licensing cost."

"We use the free version."

"The open-source version of the product is free to use."

"Camunda Platform is an open-source product."

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Answers from the Community

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Nov 15, 2021

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Shibu Babuchandran

Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Sep 2, 2021

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Works

Nov 15, 2021

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 can build workflows very quickly and the integrations are very good. They offer a community version, which can be used for free. However, the community edition of Bonita has very limited module functionality. If there was more functionality available from the enterprise edition, this would make Bonita an easier solution to learn. We have experienced some problems due to lack of documentation; more would be better, as would sample source code. Camunda allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very quickly. This solution is very stable with a free open-source version that is very good. The automation of this solution is great. Camunda can be challenging in terms of initial setup. It seems to take a long time for completed workflows to be implemented on the Camunda Platform. The learning curve for this solution can be pretty steep. A mobile app would be a welcome enhancement to this solution. Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved and better template options would be welcomed. Conclusion After researching both these solutions closely, we chose the Camunda Platform. We feel Camunda is very stable, excellent at tracking bugs, and has a powerful BPMN engine. Camunda Platform is very developer-friendly and has helped us optimize our business process and achieve our productivity and profitability goals. We found Camunda Platform to be very portable. The cross-language capabilities support multiple frameworks and the number of client implementations make Camunda Platform very pluggable and a very good choice for us.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Educational Organization

University

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Blueworks Live?

The solution is easy to operate. Also, there is an automatic mode to make the business flow. You don't have to put an...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Blueworks Live?

The solution costs around 600-700 dollars/year, which is quite affordable.

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What needs improvement with IBM Blueworks Live?

Sometimes, the tool is automatic, which can complicate it, but once you're accustomed to manipulating it, you can use...

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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 B...

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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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Which do you prefer - Appian or Camunda Platform?

Appian is fast when building simple to medium solutions. This solution offers simple drag-and-drop functionality with...

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Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?

Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based ...

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What do you like most about Camunda Platform?

The solution is useful for small projects.

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Overview

IBM Blueworks Live is a cloud-based business process modeling tool that helps you discover, map and document your processes. It is easy to use, allowing you to learn and perform business process modeling in minutes.

With Blueworks Live you can:

Simplify business process modeling
Quickly build business processes in a straightforward, cloud-based interface designed for both IT and business users.

Improve process efficiency and accuracy
A central process repository eliminates version control and consistency issues by providing users real-time access to process workflows.

Enhance cross-team collaboration
A shared team workspace engages all business process owners, encouraging cross-team participation and continuous process improvement.

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.

Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. A common visual language enables seamless collaboration between business and IT teams to design, automate, and improve end-to-end processes with the required speed, scale, and resilience to remain competitive. Hundreds of enterprises such as Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone orchestrate business-critical processes with Camunda to accelerate digital transformation. To learn more visit camunda.com.

Sample Customers

Cloudsoft Corp. Ltd., Bayer, S¾SS, Essex County Council

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.

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