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 8.2, while VMware is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2. Camunda holds a 28.6% 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 Dec 17, 2024

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 (2nd), 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 January 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Camunda is 28.6%, up from 27.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Orchestrator is 0.2%, down from 0.7% 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

"Having knowledge of the BPM and monitoring process has proven to be very beneficial, as I am currently engaged in documenting processes for Clientele."

"The UI is very user-friendly compared to other products. The native, vanilla UI is very interesting and intuitive to use. It's user-friendly when it comes to modernizing a business process."

"The interface and the number of connectors that they provide are the most valuable features. The support here, it's kind of okay. But the main thing is with the number of connectors and the UI, the user interface."

"I like everything about the entire BPM that comes with the BPM suite."

"I love that Camunda is a very developer-friendly platform, and my customers have evaluated the pricing as reasonable."

"We have been able to save costs using this solution compared to the product we used before."

"The graphical interface is very beneficial."

"It's user friendly, much better than most tools I have seen."

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"The tool is very beneficial for automating workflow."

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

"The most crucial feature of vCenter is its scalability. We can use it to expand our network, so we don't have to report our client devices. The network configuration features are also helpful because we can migrate entire networks."

"The most valuable feature for us is the performance stability of vCenter Orchestrator, especially in complex situations, making it excellent for managing virtual machines."

"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."

"The most valuable feature is how easy it makes it to manage the VM."

"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."

"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."

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Cons

"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."

"Initially, installation was challenging, but recent improvements have made it much easier."

"The deployment model could be improved for easier implementation. More open documentation would be beneficial to understand the deployment process better and facilitate easier setup."

"Lacking in forms visualization."

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

"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."

"The solution could use some enhancements like adding connectors, improving forms and having a mobile app, but everything is an enhancement rather than a flaw."

"The initial setup can be complex for business users."

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"As we work towards more stability on the solution, sometimes we'll try something and it breaks and it's easier to restart the service. That's the only drawback. We've experienced this with other applications as well."

"This solution needs to have more built-in workflows."

"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."

"I believe vCenter Orchestrator should be part of VMware vSphere's basic bundle. As a product, vCenter Orchestrator should not be licensed at all because the world has progressed way beyond what it can offer."

"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."

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

"After the change from perpetual licensing to subscriptions, the cost model changed."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use a community version."

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

"We use the open-source version, which can be used at no cost."

"It is less cost-prohibitive than other solutions on the market. This solution was in our price range."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"We use the free version."

"The product is expensive for a small or medium-sized company."

"It is good for a startup. When we started, its price was fair, but the way we are using it to orchestrate microservices makes it expensive. When you are growing as a company, you would have more microservices, and you would have more users. There is an exponential effect when you are growing in terms of the number of conditions, processes, and users because they bill you per process. So, the price was increasing very quickly for us, and it was very difficult."

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"My organization didn't have to pay extra for vCenter Orchestrator. It was already included, so it's basically free. Even VMware regular support is included."

"vCenter Orchestrator is an expensive solution."

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

"The concept of hyper-convergence is smart. I don't know if it can be applied with less cost to be more affordable for small or medium-sized companies. The cost is a very important factor for it. We are currently depending on SAN storage. However, the hyper-converged solutions are depending on the storage within the hosts, such as vSAN in the VMware. It is a smart solution."

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

"The product is expensive."

"vCenter Orchestrator is a very expensive solution."

"vCenter Orchestrator could be more affordable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

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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.

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.

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

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