Camunda vs Oracle BPEL comparison

Camunda and Oracle are both solutions in the Process Automation category. Camunda is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2, while Oracle is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0. Camunda holds a 29.1% mindshare in PA, compared to Oracle’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Camunda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Camunda

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89% willing to recommend

Oracle BPEL

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Oracle BPEL and Camunda are both key players in business process management, aiming to enhance organizational efficiency. While Oracle BPEL is appreciated for its pricing and support, Camunda is preferred for its superior features, which justify its overall cost.

Features: Oracle BPEL offers enterprise application integration, strong BPEL standards support, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Camunda stands out with strong BPMN support, user-friendly design, and deployment flexibility across environments, making it adaptable to various business processes.

Room for Improvement: Oracle BPEL can improve its ease of deployment and streamline its setup process. Additionally, enhancing its user interface would make it more accessible. Expanding its range of integration options could also be beneficial. Camunda could enhance its reporting capabilities, simplify setup for users less familiar with BPMN, and provide more advanced customization options to meet diverse enterprise needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Oracle BPEL and Camunda offer comprehensive deployment options. Oracle BPEL's setup is more complex, presenting challenges but is supported by extensive assistance. Camunda's lightweight architecture enables faster deployment and adaptability, with satisfactory customer service solutions supporting its ease and speed of deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle BPEL involves a higher setup cost, suitable for large enterprise environments, leading to a strong ROI. Camunda's lower initial cost and scalable pricing align with usage, improving process efficiency and reducing operational costs, making its ROI potential appealing for flexible budgets.

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Categories and Ranking

Camunda

Ranking in Process Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (2nd), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st)

Oracle BPEL

Ranking in Process Automation

21st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Camunda is 29.1%, up from 27.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle BPEL is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Process Automation

Featured Reviews

Peter Broucke

Enterprise Architect at Proximus

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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Nestor A.

Team Lead Manager & Architect at Claro Dominicana

Saves time; user-friendly environment

Our biggest issue with Oracle BPEL is that it is a monolith. Because it's a monolith, everybody tries to consume its services in a shared infrastructure. Because of this, some companies are trying to migrate to a microservice architecture. We use API gateways to get around these issues. If you want an orchestrator with BPEL and you have an API gateway with a layer of services, you can combine both technologies and try to get the best of both worlds. In the next release, I would like to see REST improved and new technologies for microservices. I'd like to see more containers for separating containers.

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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 solution is good for data models."

"It is open-source. It supports microservice orchestration. This is what we are really interested in. We can customize our products depending on the use cases."

"The number of client implementations and cross-language capabilities to support multiple frameworks is very pluggable compared to Pega. It's also more portable."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to share the logic within the rules engine with the business, so you can put it up for everybody to read."

"The ease with which I can define workflows is most valuable. The latest updates and flexibility that it provides around a task activity are interesting for me."

"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."

"Camunda seems to have a lot of traction, maturity, and stability. It also matches the need for agile development."

"The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it."

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"The solution is very seamless and fast."

"The product has everything we need."

"What I find the most valuable about Oracle BPEL is that it saves me time."

"The most valuable feature is the support for human tasks."

Cons

"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."

"The only drawback is the time that it takes to have a complete set of workflows implemented on the Camunda platform."

"I would like to see the forms engine available in the open-source version of this solution."

"Community support is basically what I'm looking for. Other than that, it is okay for now."

"They could provide more documentation regarding the integration of different programming languages."

"The latency of API could be decreased."

"Camunda needs to improve its user interface for low-code development and provide more user interface options beyond the basic workflow."

"I would like to have a feature for audit logging, audit logs and audit log management. And some history of use for the audit logs."

More Camunda cons

"They need to have support for new protocols like GraphQL and possibly some out-of-the-box adapters for SAP and other big systems."

"Some user-defined functions for transformation must be added to the next release of the solution."

"In the next release, I would like to see REST improved and new technologies for microservices. I'd like to see more containers for separating containers."

"The solution's integration with SAP should be seamless because some formats are not accepted in SAP but are accepted in Oracle BPEL."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We're using the free version. We used the Enterprise version for some time. If I compare free versus what we paid at that time, the Enterprise version costs a lot. For the additional functionality that we got with the Enterprise version, it was too costly."

"We use a community version."

"The most attractive feature of the product is that it is open source."

"The evaluation of my customers on pricing is that it is reasonable."

"I think Camunda BPM can improve their licensing costs. It isn't easy to find clients with Camunda BPM licenses mainly because it's quite expensive."

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

"I tried to get some information about buying the license for the solution, but I found it kind of hard to understand the business model."

"Camunda Platform is an open-source product."

More Camunda pricing and cost advice

"The solution's pricing is moderate and not expensive."

"The product is moderately priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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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 easy plug-and-play options. The initial setup was seamless and very easy to imp...

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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 option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...

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What do you like most about Oracle BPEL?

The product has everything we need.

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What needs improvement with Oracle BPEL?

They need to have support for new protocols like GraphQL and possibly some out-of-the-box adapters for SAP and other big systems. It should be better if the SAP adapter were included in the bundle.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle BPEL?

We primarily use Oracle BPEL for process automation. It is used for workflows for documents, data transfers, and other processes implemented for our customers.

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Overview

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.

Oracle BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager is a tool for designing and running business processes. This product provides a comprehensive, standardsÂbased and easy to use solution for creating, deploying and managing crossÂapplication business processes with both automated and human workflow steps â all in a serviceÂoriented architecture. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a powerful integration tool for the enterprise. Its ability to connect to external systems and process, mixed with its support for a variety of presentation technologies makes it an ideal tool for defining and implementing business process logic.

Sample Customers

24 Hour Fitness, Accruent, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, CSS Insurance, Deutsche Telekom, Generali, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, Swisscom AG, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VHV Group, Zalando

Nacional Monte de Piedad IAP, Bimbo S.A. de C.V., Intelligent Pathways, DVZ Datenverarbeitungszentrum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH, Arqiva

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