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Camunda vs vCenter Orchestrator comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.8
Camunda improves ROI by reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, saving time, and offering robust BPMN and DMN integration tools.
Sentiment score
7.0
vCenter Orchestrator enhances ROI in large environments, offering compatibility and licensing benefits, though ROI varies by scenario.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
Camunda's support is helpful but inconsistent, with enterprise users benefiting more, while smaller businesses face pricing and support challenges.
No sentiment score available
They provide better support for the enterprise edition.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
Camunda offers scalability with technologies like Spring Boot and Docker, though database dependencies and auto-scaling improvements remain challenges.
Sentiment score
7.4
vCenter Orchestrator is praised for scalability and adaptability across diverse environments, despite some complexity and hardware limitations.
Camunda offers a high level of scalability, especially when using its SaaS model, which manages and scales implementations automatically.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Camunda is highly stable and reliable, often scoring 7-10 in stability, with minor issues in integrations and configurations.
No sentiment score available
There haven't been any significant outages in my experience with Camunda.
 

Room For Improvement

Camunda users seek better navigation, customization, integrations, documentation, security, language support, performance, visualization, and support services improvements.
More open documentation would be beneficial to understand the deployment process better and facilitate easier setup.
 

Setup Cost

Camunda's enterprise version is costly, prompting many to choose the free edition or seek alternatives for advanced features.
Enterprise buyers consider vCenter Orchestrator versatile but expensive, with complex licensing and various editions to suit different needs.
There is a licensing cost for using the SaaS model and Enterprise edition of Camunda.
 

Valuable Features

Camunda offers lightweight, flexible BPMN 2.0 compliance, open-source access, microservices orchestration, and user-friendly tools for process automation.
 

Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Process Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
76
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
50
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 vCenter Orchestrator is 0.2%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Peter Broucke - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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...
What do you like most about vCenter Orchestrator?
The stability of the product is very good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vCenter Orchestrator?
Currently, if it is included in the VMware license, it is basically free to use. However, if you had to buy it separately, the price is too high.
What needs improvement with vCenter Orchestrator?
The solution has a limited count of parallel executions, which can be a bottleneck for larger environments. The PowerShell interface could be improved since it currently does not run directly, whic...
 

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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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