We compared Bonita and Camunda based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
User reviews indicate that Bonita is highly praised for its user-friendly interface, customization options, seamless integration, and process automation. On the other hand, Camunda stands out for its exceptional workflow management, task allocation, and tracking abilities. While Bonita focuses on user satisfaction and cost-effective pricing, Camunda excels in customer service and flexible licensing options. Areas for improvement in Bonita include the user interface and integration capabilities, while Camunda could benefit from more intuitive interfaces and better documentation.
Features: The valuable features of Bonita include a user-friendly interface, powerful workflow management capabilities, comprehensive customization options, seamless integration with existing systems, and efficient process automation. On the other hand, Camunda is praised for its exceptional workflow management capabilities, task allocation and tracking efficiency, seamless integration with other systems, user-friendly graphical interface, flexible customization options, and reliable performance.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Bonita is reported to be straightforward and hassle-free, ensuring an easy implementation process. Users appreciate that the licensing aspect of Bonita offers flexibility with different options. For Camunda, users find the setup cost not overly complicated or time-consuming, with licensing praised for being flexible and accommodating., Users have reported positive ROI from both Bonita and Camunda. Bonita focuses on optimizing processes and improving efficiency, while Camunda excels in streamlining business processes and improving workflow management, leading to increased productivity and cost-effectiveness.
Room for Improvement: Bonita has room for improvement in terms of user interface, functionality, ease of use, and integration capabilities. On the other hand, Camunda could enhance its user interface, documentation, and integration capabilities to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Bonita focus on highlighting the importance of considering both deployment and setup timeframes, and the experiences of users in implementing the tech solution. On the other hand, the reviews for Camunda mention varying durations for deployment and setup, emphasizing the need to evaluate the context in which the terms are used., Bonita's customer service stands out due to the helpful and responsive assistance provided by their team. Users appreciate the advice and guidance received, which exceeded their expectations. On the other hand, Camunda's customer service receives positive acclaim for its prompt response times and helpful assistance. Users express satisfaction with the reliability, effectiveness, expertise, and professionalism exhibited throughout their interactions.
The summary above is based on 28 interviews we conducted recently with Bonita and Camunda users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution is easy to use."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"Bonita is user-friendly."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."
"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."
"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."
"It's user friendly, much better than most tools I have seen."
"Camunda Platform has a very good interface for workflow and business process design."
"The flexibility characteristic in a BPMS, through BPMN and DMN, is undoubtedly the most interesting feature for our business."
"Ease of use and ability to streamline a process model."
"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."
"It has been a stable solution so far since it meets our needs, including data modeling, which we need to do before we embark on analyzing and optimizing the business processes."
"We have been able to save costs using this solution compared to the product we used before."
"The product is stable."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"It is missing some important features that other products have."
"There is a need for more components in the library and additional customization options for these components."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"We are struggling a bit with integrations."
"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."
"There is a considerable learning curve."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"The support definitely can be improved. Apart from that, the language should be extendable to other platforms. If I want to write, I'll run a different platform, like Python code on top of it, or COBOL code on top of it, and it should support those languages."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"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."
"Community support is basically what I'm looking for. Other than that, it is okay for now."
"In the future, I would like to see better transactional integrity."
"The cockpit features of the Camunda Platform can be improved to make it a bit more user-friendly, in terms of providing a bit more user experience for non-technical users. There could be some additional documentation added."
"I think it would be important to internationalize the Cockpit and the Admin as well as with the Tasklist."
Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Design with 27 reviews while Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 69 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Camunda is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". Bonita is most compared with Bizagi, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, ProcessMaker and ARIS BPA, whereas Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and AWS Step Functions. See our Bonita vs. Camunda report.
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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 can build workflows very quickly and the integrations are very good. They offer a community version, which can be used for free.
However, the community edition of Bonita has very limited module functionality. If there was more functionality available from the enterprise edition, this would make Bonita an easier solution to learn. We have experienced some problems due to lack of documentation; more would be better, as would sample source code.
Camunda 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 quickly. This solution is very stable with a free open-source version that is very good. The automation of this solution is great.
Camunda can be challenging in terms of initial setup. It seems to take a long time for completed workflows to be implemented on the Camunda Platform. The learning curve for this solution can be pretty steep. A mobile app would be a welcome enhancement to this solution. Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved and better template options would be welcomed.
Conclusion
After researching both these solutions closely, we chose the Camunda Platform. We feel Camunda is very stable, excellent at tracking bugs, and has a powerful BPMN engine. Camunda Platform is very developer-friendly and has helped us optimize our business process and achieve our productivity and profitability goals. We found Camunda Platform to be very portable. The cross-language capabilities support multiple frameworks and the number of client implementations make Camunda Platform very pluggable and a very good choice for us.