We performed a comparison between Bonita and Visual Paradigm based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"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."
"I really enjoy using the workflow management."
"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."
"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."
"The application is easy to use and provides informative diagrams."
"Visual Paradigm is super user-friendly, especially for new team members. I always have them start with it because the interface is so simple to pick up. They usually spend about six months to a year using only Visual Paradigm before moving on to other tools. We also use the cloud repository for collaborative work, but I've had some trouble with code reviewing and limitations. Sometimes, customers even request the source file or exported XML because it's easier for them to access and review."
"The initial setup is extremely straightforward."
"The pricing model is attractive."
"The Visual Paradigm business process forms for designing we good. There was not a lot of configuration for the process diagram."
"The solution is stable. It hasn't crashed, stopped or caused any issues in any way."
"I find it very user-friendly for my purposes, which is creating business process models that I can publish as HTML pages. It has worked flawlessly for my project, and my clients are able to utilize it as an internal web portal for their process documentation and other needs."
"The solution is very user-friendly. It's easy to just open it and start working."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"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."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"There is a need for more components in the library and additional customization options for these components."
"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."
"Installation could be made easier."
"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."
"I would like to see something for visualizing innovation work maps."
"More flexibility when choosing the type of diagram would be nice."
"The solution can be heavy on resource usage."
"The solution can improve by updating the user interface, and graphics."
"I would like to see the ability to easily export to groupware, such as Atlassian Confluence."
"The solution's technical support can be improved and accessible for our company location since Visual Paradigm follows a remote support model with some challenges."
"Visual Paradigm can improve by having better process mining tools and model integration."
"Visual Paradigm is much better now. But each project has its own challenges, which is why I'm exploring different tools for my new projects. For instance, designing reports can be tough, especially with the costly intervention of professional services from vendors."
Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Design with 27 reviews while Visual Paradigm is ranked 7th in Business Process Design with 25 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Visual Paradigm is rated 8.0. 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 Visual Paradigm writes "Very flexible and easy to use with a good pricing model". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and ProcessMaker, whereas Visual Paradigm is most compared with Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, Lucidchart, Bizagi and No Magic MagicDraw. See our Bonita vs. Visual Paradigm report.
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