Bonita vs SAP Signavio Process Manager comparison

Bonitasoft and SAP are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Bonitasoft is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.5, while SAP is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0. Bonitasoft holds a 4.0% mindshare in BPD, compared to SAP’s 9.1% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Bonitasoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Bonita

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96% willing to recommend

SAP Signavio Process Manager

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Bonita and SAP Signavio Process Manager compete in business process management. SAP Signavio Process Manager appears superior due to its comprehensive features and robust deployment capabilities, offering long-term value.

Features: Bonita offers intuitive process modeling, flexibility in execution, and integration capabilities. SAP Signavio Process Manager provides collaborative process design, extensive process mining tools, and analytics functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Bonita could enhance its deployment complexity, improve training resources, and expand feature sets. SAP Signavio Process Manager might benefit from simplifying its integration process, improving initial setup, and enhancing cost efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bonita ensures straightforward deployment with quick implementation and supportive customer service. SAP Signavio Process Manager, although more complex, offers strong integration support and extensive training resources.

Pricing and ROI: Bonita offers cost-effectiveness with a lower entry barrier, favoring fast ROI in simpler scenarios. SAP Signavio Process Manager justifies higher setup costs through extensive features and operational efficiencies, translating to strategic long-term ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bonita

Ranking in Business Process Design

11th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

20th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (15th)

SAP Signavio Process Manager

Ranking in Business Process Design

4th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Bonita is 4.0%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Signavio Process Manager is 9.1%, up from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Signavio Process Manager	9.1%
Bonita	4.0%
Other	86.9%

Business Process Design

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Mohamed Guermazi

Technical Director / Project Manager at I-way

The user interface is easy to use, and the product performs well, but the dashboard and the monitoring features are limited

We use the product to design workflows. We model and install them on the server. We use the Community edition The modeling features are easy. The performance of the tool is good. The user interface is easy to use. I have used the product for complex processes and sub-processes successfully. The…

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Cirvesh-Daga

Director at T-Systems International GmbH

Good visual representation for modelling and business process mapping but room for improvement in reporting functionalities

There is room for improvement in analytics. People don't realize it, but the world has changed in the last six to eight months. Customers want to see AI like ChatGPT and ML capabilities in all aspects of business processes and reporting. That would be my recommendation for any OEM in this value chain. Reporting could definitely be improved. I would like to see new features in analytics. I like that they analyze the process and give it to me visually, but I'd like the option to use DPMM instead of just DPC. I'd also like the option to have the process map laid out top to bottom instead of horizontally. Especially a choice between DPMN and EPC as a format. Because there are some people who are very comfortable with the EPC notation. The process is very clearly event-driven. There's an event, there's an action. It's very simple to understand. BPMN, which is the most popular business process notation, generally tends to have multiple frames. Actually, in multiple swimlanes rather. And those frames could each represent a particular kind of entity. Maybe it's an action, maybe it's an actor, maybe it's an event. So there are two different ways of notation. I just like Signavio to give us the ability to choose that notation. Because some companies use BPMN and some use the EPC. And then, if the minute you make that change, I'd like them to give us the flexibility of having an already plotted or vertically plotted option. Moreover, I would like to see improvement in the visual part. It's the piece that needs improvement. Currently, you can plot the diagram horizontally or vertically. However, I'd like the option to change the way the diagram is created, like switching between different notations.

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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

"The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it."

"The user interface is easy to use."

"Development of forms and flows."

"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."

"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."

"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."

"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."

"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."

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"The fact that the repository is available on the web is the most valuable feature. It's a very simple tool. If you can use something simple and visual, you should be able to use the model as well in Signavio. It has the ability, for example, to track versioning control, so if you make updates to the processes, you have the ability to track the versions as well."

"Version management is helpful because I like to try different versions and then decide which of them should be the main model."

"As a business transformation suite, Signavio offers a number of integrated helpful tools. The Process Modeler helps with the conceptual work, but is directly integrated with the components of the Workflow Accelerator (Automation) and the Process Intelligence (Mining). This makes Signavio an indispensable service package."

"I use SAP Signavio Process Manager to model processes to the former operating model."

"When comparing my experience with Celonis and Signavio, I can discern the distinctions between these two platforms. However, I'm unable to differentiate between ARAs and add-ons, as that falls outside my scope of familiarity. Regarding Celonis, it comes with its set of advantages and disadvantages. Notably, it boasts robust features like action flows, task mining, and seamless integration with AML programming. Conversely, Signavio lacks action flows and instead relies on action segments and tasks for interaction. This discrepancy is a significant factor setting Selenium and SecureView apart. In the context of Signavio, it offers a combination of BPMN and process discovery, a feature absent in Celonis. This tandem of BPMN and process insight contributes to Signavio’S potency. Meanwhile, Celonis primarily features the process miner tool, setting it apart from Signavio. These variations collectively outline the numerous differences existing between Celonis and Signavio."

"This solution is innovative and simple to use."

"We could increase the transparency and speed for the new ERP introduction. The status and changes by the new system are now clear to everybody and it is a great tool to train the people."

"The ability to leave comments in the Collaboration Hub is a good and easy way for the employees to give feedback on the processes."

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Cons

"Bonita can improve by offering more flexibility. The developer does not receive the code of the application to modify it. Most of the other solutions I have used allow the developers to change or improve the code that is generated."

"There is a need for more components in the library and additional customization options for these components."

"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 have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."

"Installation could be made easier."

"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."

"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."

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"Typically, a business process management suite would cover the whole lifecycle, from discovery to optimization and operations. This is running on the process server and providing some kind of low-code environment for developing business solutions. I think the latter part is missing, where SAP Connector comes in. Specifically, the execution of processes is missing, where you would design forms to take orders. This is typically part of some development environment for the process server to run processes from out of the models."

"I would like to see more integration with the process manager in terms of the workflow accelerator."

"I would like to see the inclusion of some document management functionality so that we don't need to integrate with a second solution to accommodate this."

"There are a few bugs when you use the Microsoft Surface Hub with the big screen."

"It's very user-orientated, which is why I gave it a high rating, even if it is not perfect in every corner."

"One of the most important points in Signavio that would be a great change would be the management of variants of the process."

"If you're going to use the tool the way I'm using it, which is to work with businesses and capture what they're thinking, it would be helpful to be able to insert other objects onto a diagram."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am using the free version of Bonita."

"You pay an annual fee and can have an unlimited number of processes and users."

"I believe this is a very good financial choice."

"The product's pricing is acceptable. Pricing is yearly."

"The Enterprise edition is very expensive."

"Price to service ratio with Bonita BPM is good."

"We are using the Community Version, which can be used free of charge."

"The Community Edition comes free of charge."

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"I found the pricing of the solution to be moderate compared to other choices."

"I rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten."

"The product is expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"We are using the free trial version."

"It is expensive. The license is monthly."

"Lower than the competition with highly flexible licensing plans."

"This solution provides really great value for the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	43

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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What do you like most about Bonita?

The user interface is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bonita?

The Enterprise edition is very expensive.

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Which is better - Signavio Process Manager or Celonis?

SAP Signavio Process Manager is a very robust industrial-grade business process modeling tool. It is easy to use and does not require too much technological involvement. This solution has a collabo...

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What do you like most about Signavio Process Manager?

The visual representation is extremely powerful and easy to use in process modeling and analysis. I can show it to someone who doesn't know business process mapping, and they still understand bec...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Signavio Process Manager?

The price of SAP Signavio Process Manager was quite high but could be afforded by an organization with a sensitive data scale.

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Also Known As

Bonita BPM

Signavio Process Editor

Overview

Bonitasoft helps innovative companies worldwide deliver better digital user experiences for customers and employees. The extensible and open Bonita application platform unleashes the full potential of multidisciplinary development teams to create Living Apps: applications that allow continuous and incremental improvement, connecting tailored user interfaces with reliable back-office operations.

Bonitasoft

The Signavio portfolio of web-based business transformation solutions helps companies to understand and optimize all of their business processes quickly and at scale, providing instant insights for informed decision-making. Signavio’s intuitive analysis, change management and execution solutions around process excellence include use cases like digital transformation, operational excellence and customer-centricity, placing them at the heart of global organizations.

Over 1 million users in more than 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on Signavio products to make processes part of their company’s DNA. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Signavio was founded in 2009 to address the need for a collaborative approach to process management.

Signavio was acquired by SAP in the first quarter of 2021. For more information, visit www.signavio.com

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Sample Customers

With more than 1000 customers in 75 countries, and its ecosystem of more than 120,000 members, Bonitasoft is the largest provider of open-source Business Process Management, Low-code and Digital Transformation software worldwide.

DHL, Coca Cola EP, Prudential, Zalando, T-Systems, Jabil, Endress+Hauser, Rakuten

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