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 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."

"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's process diagram creation and deployment is very easy."

"Using the BPMN helps us to have a common shared communication language when discussing processes."

"The headless nature of the Camunda Platform is something that has helped us to build our own logic and platforms on it."

"The modeler is useful for creating the flow. The way to access the data through their REST API is also valuable. This is what we're using right now."

"I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features."

"The solution is good for data models."

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"The solution's most valuable feature is its good automation features."

"vCenter Orchestrator's best features are the workflows, integration with third-party applications, and the workflow library."

"User-friendly and easy to deploy."

"The stability of the product is very good."

"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."

"Communication with technical support is very good. It has a repository of knowledge base articles which we can access which are very helpful."

"The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool."

"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."

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Cons

"In the future, I would definitely like to see the process administration (migration, audit, tracking) and process evaluation (optimize) features added to the community edition."

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

"Initial setup can be quite complex."

"There are a few things that I'm missing. For instance, the user interface creator, which I know other systems have, like Aurea or Lombardi, which are IBM solutions. The interface creator, including the data model creator or some module which would allow the users who are not programmers or business consultants and who are not technically skilled in database and Java programming, to create data models and user interfaces."

"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."

"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."

"The support offered by the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Documentation can be improved."

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"Mainly VMware integrates with other products, but there is no easy way to link with other products from a different vendor. We can integrate with other products from the same vendors fairly well, but if they could make it so integration is easier with other vendors, that would really help."

"This is an expensive solution."

"The product lacks GUIs. The tool should have more GUIs available, along with easier product documentation."

"The licensing is expensive and should be improved."

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

"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."

"The only problem with the product is that it is very expensive, making it an area where improvements are required."

"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is an open-source version available, that in its core features (workflow and decision engine, modeler) is exactly the same as in the enterprise version."

"There is a bit of scope for improvement in how the licensing and pricing are done. They are based on the number of processing instances you execute on the cluster... but on the self-hosted mode, the pricing model should be customized."

"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."

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

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

"We use the free version."

"Camunda is much cheaper."

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"We renew the solution's license every one or two years."

"vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution."

"This solution is expensive and the licensing is more attractive for Haveri."

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

"My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product."

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

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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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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 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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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

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