Bonita vs SAP Signavio Process Manager comparison

Bonitasoft and SAP are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bonitasoft is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2, while SAP is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.6. Bonitasoft holds a 4.7% mindshare in BPD, compared to SAP’s 9.0% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Bonitasoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Bonita

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96% willing to recommend

SAP Signavio Process Manager

Read 59 SAP Signavio Process Manager reviews

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4,253 Comparison Views

89% 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

10th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (12th)

SAP Signavio Process Manager

Ranking in Business Process Design

5th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bonita is 4.7%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Signavio Process Manager is 9.0%, up from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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Cirvesh-Daga

Director at T-Systems International GmbH

Good visual representation for modelling and business process mapping but room for improvement in reporting functionalities

There is room for improvement in analytics. People don't realize it, but the world has changed in the last six to eight months. Customers want to see AI like ChatGPT and ML capabilities in all aspects of business processes and reporting. That would be my recommendation for any OEM in this value chain. Reporting could definitely be improved. I would like to see new features in analytics. I like that they analyze the process and give it to me visually, but I'd like the option to use DPMM instead of just DPC. I'd also like the option to have the process map laid out top to bottom instead of horizontally. Especially a choice between DPMN and EPC as a format. Because there are some people who are very comfortable with the EPC notation. The process is very clearly event-driven. There's an event, there's an action. It's very simple to understand. BPMN, which is the most popular business process notation, generally tends to have multiple frames. Actually, in multiple swimlanes rather. And those frames could each represent a particular kind of entity. Maybe it's an action, maybe it's an actor, maybe it's an event. So there are two different ways of notation. I just like Signavio to give us the ability to choose that notation. Because some companies use BPMN and some use the EPC. And then, if the minute you make that change, I'd like them to give us the flexibility of having an already plotted or vertically plotted option. Moreover, I would like to see improvement in the visual part. It's the piece that needs improvement. Currently, you can plot the diagram horizontally or vertically. However, I'd like the option to change the way the diagram is created, like switching between different notations.

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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

"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."

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

"The user interface is easy to use."

"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."

"This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."

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

"The solution is easy to use."

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

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"When comparing my experience with Celonis and Signavio, I can discern the distinctions between these two platforms. However, I'm unable to differentiate between ARAs and add-ons, as that falls outside my scope of familiarity. Regarding Celonis, it comes with its set of advantages and disadvantages. Notably, it boasts robust features like action flows, task mining, and seamless integration with AML programming. Conversely, Signavio lacks action flows and instead relies on action segments and tasks for interaction. This discrepancy is a significant factor setting Selenium and SecureView apart. In the context of Signavio, it offers a combination of BPMN and process discovery, a feature absent in Celonis. This tandem of BPMN and process insight contributes to Signavio’S potency. Meanwhile, Celonis primarily features the process miner tool, setting it apart from Signavio. These variations collectively outline the numerous differences existing between Celonis and Signavio."

"We can use workflow manager to create forms."

"The most valuable feature of SAP Signavio Process Manager is the ability to do business process models."

"The visual representation is extremely powerful and easy to use in process modeling and analysis. I can show it to someone who doesn't know business process mapping, and they still understand because it's visually presented. It becomes easy to explain variants and what needs to change."

"It is a scalable solution."

"The Collaboration Hub is especially useful for collaborative tasks and ensuring transparency across teams."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the portal for spreading it over the organization, the usability, and the workflow generator in the background."

"The most valuable feature for me is usability."

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Cons

"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."

"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."

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

"The dashboard has limited features."

"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."

"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."

"It is missing some important features that other products have."

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"I would like to have the option to select the color of items and subgroups in the glossary because right now it is fixed."

"Two executives cannot work on one modeling process simultaneously."

"The tool's navigation could be improved."

"One of the most important points in Signavio that would be a great change would be the management of variants of the process."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

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

"There is a need for more varied access packages. The access packages that I have used are not cheap enough. They also provide a complete set of tools that are not always used. Sometimes, you need more segregated things, e.g., Signavio includes functionality for a company that has not yet matured. Since there are no basic packages, the company must pay for a package that is not fully used. Typically, process management is started in a company of a certain maturity."

"Its reporting feature could have customization options."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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 Community Edition comes 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."

"The product's pricing is acceptable. Pricing is yearly."

"The Enterprise edition is very expensive."

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

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"The product is expensive."

"I rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten."

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

"The customer Journey Modeler is more than twice the price of Process Manager, which is a lot."

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

"SAP Signavio charges a lot of money."

"We are using the free trial version."

"The solution is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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 do you like most about Signavio Process Manager?

The visual representation is extremely powerful and easy to use in process modeling and analysis. I can show it to someone who doesn't know business process mapping, and they still understand bec...

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

Due to its SaaS nature, it is slightly challenging as a BPM tool. The pricing could be reduced further. I don't have the exact figures, but I believe it can be lowered because it's cloud-based.

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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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