Bonita vs SAP Signavio Process Manager comparison

Bonitasoft and SAP are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bonitasoft is ranked #16, while SAP is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.8. Bonitasoft holds a 3.0% mindshare in BPD, compared to SAP’s 7.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Bonitasoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Bonita

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96% willing to recommend

SAP Signavio Process Manager

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bonita and SAP Signavio Process Manager compete in business process management. SAP Signavio Process Manager appears superior due to its comprehensive features and robust deployment capabilities, offering long-term value.

Features: Bonita offers intuitive process modeling, flexibility in execution, and integration capabilities. SAP Signavio Process Manager provides collaborative process design, extensive process mining tools, and analytics functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Bonita could enhance its deployment complexity, improve training resources, and expand feature sets. SAP Signavio Process Manager might benefit from simplifying its integration process, improving initial setup, and enhancing cost efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bonita ensures straightforward deployment with quick implementation and supportive customer service. SAP Signavio Process Manager, although more complex, offers strong integration support and extensive training resources.

Pricing and ROI: Bonita offers cost-effectiveness with a lower entry barrier, favoring fast ROI in simpler scenarios. SAP Signavio Process Manager justifies higher setup costs through extensive features and operational efficiencies, translating to strategic long-term ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Bonita

Ranking in Business Process Design

16th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

31st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (31st)

SAP Signavio Process Manager

Ranking in Business Process Design

4th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bonita is 3.0%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Signavio Process Manager is 7.8%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Signavio Process Manager	7.8%
Bonita	3.0%
Other	89.2%

Business Process Design

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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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Eury Reyes P

Analista sr. de procesos de transformación digital at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reveals real bottlenecks, but pricing and usability need work still require improvement.

SAP Signavio Process Manager could be improved in several areas to make it more competitive and accessible. From my experience, the strongest opportunity lies in enhancing its process mining capabilities. While Signavio offers solid functionality, other tools like Celonis provide deeper insights and more seamless integrations, especially when working with large datasets or complex execution paths. Strengthening the integration layer and expanding native process mining features would significantly elevate the platform. Another area for improvement is pricing. The solution tends to be positioned at a premium level, which can limit adoption compared to other tools that offer similar or stronger capabilities at a more accessible cost. A more flexible or tiered pricing model would make the product more appealing to a broader range of organizations. Regarding usability, while the platform is powerful, it can feel advanced for users who do not have a process engineering background. Improving the user interface and offering more intuitive guidance for non-technical stakeholders would help increase engagement and ease of use across teams. In terms of support, the setup experience is manageable, especially with technical assistance, but there is room for SAP to provide more consistent and accessible support to ensure a smoother learning curve for new users. Overall, enhancements in process mining depth, integration capabilities, pricing flexibility, and user-friendliness would make SAP Signavio Process Manager a more compelling and widely adoptable solution.

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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

"Development of forms and flows."

"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 is user-friendly."

"I really enjoy using the workflow management."

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

"The user interface is easy to use."

"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."

"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."

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"The collaboration hub is good because it allows us to share the models that we've captured and to get comments back, and we don't all have to be in the same room, it can be remote and over time."

"This solution is innovative and simple to use."

"The interface is very intuitive and includes a drag-and-drop function."

"The collaboration hub, which helps us in terms of being able to communicate with our customers, brings everybody into the tool and close to the process, allowing them to comment and to implement their own processes."

"Process Manager supports end-to-end transformation. Students can better understand end-to-end activity and processes as well as how they are run. For teaching, it's process discovery, then modeling, and finally optimization and simulation, partly. Typically, we showcase some simulation of the processes, and this is where we finish. That is why we validate that it's properly designed, but also what are the outcomes of modeled processes. There are also options for discussion on process optimization."

"Process management/Process governance is what we think Signavio is very good at."

"The benefit of this application is that I can immediately describe processes and form normative documents for these processes. For me, this is definitely a plus. Сurrently, I work in a company that is not involved in the structural alignment of business processes. They have huge gaps in this. Nothing is described and there are no norms. Therefore, the formation of regulatory documents, rules, and descriptions of processes, not only in graphic form, but also in documentary form is an absolute plus. I have not found this in other process programs."

"The modeling tool of Signavio was particularly nice because it has suggestions of where the best areas of improvement are and analyzes your data to show you where the areas of change for improvement are."

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Cons

"There is a need for more components in the library and additional customization options for these components."

"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."

"We are struggling a bit with integrations."

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

"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 main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."

"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."

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"Typically, a business process management suite would cover the whole lifecycle, from discovery to optimization and operations. This is running on the process server and providing some kind of low-code environment for developing business solutions. I think the latter part is missing, where SAP Connector comes in. Specifically, the execution of processes is missing, where you would design forms to take orders. This is typically part of some development environment for the process server to run processes from out of the models."

"For me, given I've got a lot of experience working with BPMN and other process management tools, in terms of the interface, I think there's a little bit more that can be improved to match what the conventional BPMN offers. I've been constantly trying to give this feedback to Signavio, to let them know that it needs to be more coherent with the original BPMN version of the stencil."

"Signavio already offers a wonderful range of functions. If variant management and customer journeys are optimized, Signavio can definitely bask in the glory of BPM tools. We also see optimization potential in the management of licenses, e.g. no named users but rather floating licenses and integration into the company's active directory."

"The performance metrics appearing in the collaboration hub needs to be improved."

"The free trial needs to have more options for end users, such as including Process Intelligence as a trial version."

"If you start from scratch then I think this product would be ideal, but if you already have something then it may or may not suit you."

"The user administration, the user-group administration, and the license models need improvement."

"The tool's navigation could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"I believe this is a very good financial choice."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"You pay an annual fee and can have an unlimited number of processes and users."

"The Community Edition comes free of charge."

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"The solution is expensive."

"SaaS has no setup cost, just licensing fees."

"We are only able to use the free academic licenses because we have a financial constraint. We are not able to pay for commercial licenses to use this kind of tool."

"SAP is always more expensive. The per-user cost is hard to calculate and forecast for a big company."

"I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"My client purchased one editor license and the collaboration hub, which covers up to a hundred people."

"Lower than the competition with highly flexible licensing plans."

"The solution is quite expensive compared to other vendors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	44

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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Which is better - Signavio Process Manager or Celonis?

SAP Signavio Process Manager is a very robust industrial-grade business process modeling tool. It is easy to use and does not require too much technological involvement. This solution has a collabo...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Signavio Process Manager?

The price of SAP Signavio Process Manager was quite high but could be afforded by an organization with a sensitive data scale.

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What advice do you have for others considering Signavio Process Manager?

I have worked with SAP Signavio and SAP platforms including SAP SD, SAP CC, and SAP FI, but I haven't worked with any other SAP tools. I would rate SAP Signavio Process Manager 10 out of 10.

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Also Known As

Bonita BPM

Signavio Process Editor

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

The Signavio portfolio of web-based business transformation solutions helps companies to understand and optimize all of their business processes quickly and at scale, providing instant insights for informed decision-making. Signavio’s intuitive analysis, change management and execution solutions around process excellence include use cases like digital transformation, operational excellence and customer-centricity, placing them at the heart of global organizations.

Over 1 million users in more than 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on Signavio products to make processes part of their company’s DNA. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Signavio was founded in 2009 to address the need for a collaborative approach to process management.

Signavio was acquired by SAP in the first quarter of 2021. For more information, visit www.signavio.com

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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.

DHL, Coca Cola EP, Prudential, Zalando, T-Systems, Jabil, Endress+Hauser, Rakuten

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