Camunda vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

Camunda and VMware are both solutions in the Process Automation category. Camunda is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3, while VMware is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.1. Camunda holds a 28.0% mindshare in PA, compared to VMware’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Camunda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 9, 2025

vCenter Orchestrator and Camunda compete in the workflow automation and business process management category. vCenter Orchestrator has the upper hand in managing virtualized IT environments, while Camunda excels in flexible workflow design and BPMN capabilities.

Features: vCenter Orchestrator is known for virtualization, workflow automation, and integration, offering usability and management tools. Camunda offers strong BPMN capabilities, is open-source, and provides flexibility in workflow design, making it ideal for business process automation.

Room for Improvement: vCenter Orchestrator could improve integration with non-VMware products, reduce costs, and simplify workflows, with additional automation support needed. Camunda users suggest enhancing the user interface, improving native integrations, and providing better documentation and support for non-tech users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCenter Orchestrator is often deployed on-premises with generally positive support but concerns about response time exist. Camunda offers cloud and hybrid deployment options, with mixed feedback on enterprise customer service and reliance on community support.

Pricing and ROI: vCenter Orchestrator's pricing is criticized for complexity and high cost, especially after Broadcom's acquisition, but it offers strong ROI for large environments. Camunda is praised for its cost-effective open-source version; however, its enterprise pricing can rise with usage. Camunda's ROI hinges on its enterprise scalability and flexibility.

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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 (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st)

vCenter Orchestrator

Ranking in Process Automation

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

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 Camunda is 28.0%, up from 27.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Orchestrator is 0.2%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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FABIO NAGAO

Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA

Reduces costs with hardware abstraction and simplifies scaling

There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible. I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory to scale my solution. Not every software is built for deployment as a container service, although the current architecture trend is changing this.

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David Villota

EMEA Hosting Engineer at Yanfeng Automotive

Provides automatic monitoring capabilities that save time for users

In my company's IT environment, we use the tool to deploy production environments for products, including live manufacturing systems. The product improves my company's IT automation processes since we can use fewer resources currently. In my company, we need to spend less time considering that vCenter Orchestrator monitors everything. In general, we don't have to be present in our company to do active monitoring. Automatic monitoring is available for everything with vCenter Orchestrator, so we have proactive alerts in our company. The most valuable feature of the product in streamlining our company's workflow stems from the fact that we need to spend fewer resources and less time in general. Our company can spend time on more effective tasks like working with the plans to improve processes and so on, instead of taking care of the systems. The benefits of the product's integration capabilities were useful for HPE. My company has HPE infrastructure, and we are keen to integrate everything into the host, VMware ESXi. It is really important to have an easy integration method that allows for everything to be installed easily in a matter of minutes. I was not involved in the product's setup process. My colleague took care of the product's setup process. From what I know, I can say that the product's setup phase was straightforward. Some custom setups were to be done manually in the tool, but everything was well documented. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. One of the benefits of the product is that it is a low-cost and stable solution that offers a lot of resources. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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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

"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."

"We can easily define and deploy business processes. Camunda provides the tools that allow business people to design business processes. We don't have to have developers for it. It is so easy to use that our business people can go into the tool and model their business processes. We get time to do other things than just designing business processes."

"The most valuable feature is that, with a visual system, you can try to have a process client before beginning the programming for the application."

"It is very user-friendly compared to IBM BPM. It's much simpler – it's more streamlined. That means even non-technical departments can use it."

"The flexibility characteristic in a BPMS, through BPMN and DMN, is undoubtedly the most interesting feature for our business."

"The architectural part of Camunda for workflow design is highly valuable, especially the Camunda Modeler, which allows quick process design and implementation."

"It has an open BPM"

"EC2 makes scaling horizontally incredibly easy, especially when working under the ECS service."

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"The most valuable features are the graphical UI for designing the workflows and the interfaces that come out of the box."

"The solution was easy to install."

"I find that managing all my vCenters from one console is the most valuable feature."

"What I like best about vCenter Orchestrator is that it makes life easier through automation. People can request to automate all processes with vCenter Orchestrator, such as adding storage, creating VMs, removing VMs, and extending VMs."

"The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one."

"The most valuable feature is workflow automation."

"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."

"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."

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Cons

"The documentation could use improvement."

"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."

"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."

"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."

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

"If Camunda could develop something that creates user forms that would be a great feature to have. They also need to improve the UI."

"There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible."

"Documentation can be improved."

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"The price of this product is high and could be improved."

"VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process."

"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."

"It is too expensive. One of the main issues is the price."

"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."

"I would like to see more automation added in the future."

"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."

"Enhancing the platform's setup process intuitiveness and offering more flexible pricing options could further improve its accessibility across different company sizes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have an annual subscription to this solution."

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

"We are using the paid edition because there is no separate support and service license yet. We are yet to find a suitable licensing model for Camunda because we only use the engine, and we have implemented our solution around Camunda Cloud. So, we are mainly interested in the support and service, and that's what we mainly use in the paid edition."

"While the license isn't budget-friendly, careful consideration and calculated planning for a significant number of licenses can make it more cost-effective."

"When compared with the proprietary products, the pricing costs are much less, even though it is an enterprise edition."

"Compared to other software, Camunda Platform is quite cost-effective."

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

"I use the open-source free version."

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"The product is expensive."

"We provide the VMware solution to our clients, for which they pay a perpetual license."

"The licensing module is somewhat complex. Calculating the cost is complicated. Many of our clients are unclear about the billing system and the traffic metering."

"vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution."

"The solution is a bit expensive."

"The licensing cost is manageable because they have different versions available, standard, essential, and advanced."

"We pay a yearly fee, based on our entries."

"The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

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Which do you prefer - Appian or Camunda Platform?

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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 vCenter Orchestrator?

The stability of the product is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vCenter Orchestrator?

We're running a low-profile budget. This is not our main focus on investment technology, so we're trying to reduce costs due to the change from perpetual to subscription licenses.

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What needs improvement with vCenter Orchestrator?

After the change from perpetual licensing to subscriptions, the cost model changed. We are considering alternatives since we lost the perpetual aspect, and support is changing.

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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.

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VMware vCenter Orchestrator simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware vCloud Suite components to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools and processes.

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