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CA Process Automation vs Camunda comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

CA Process Automation
Ranking in Process Automation
37th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Camunda
Ranking in Process Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (3rd), Business Process Management (BPM) (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of CA Process Automation is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Camunda is 10.9%, down from 26.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Camunda10.9%
CA Process Automation1.0%
Other88.1%
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

SJ
Automation Solutions Developer at HCL Technologies
Added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience
We design end-to-end automation solutions for repetitive tasks performed by IT support teams This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests.  Built-in operators available for most integrations. Easy to manage. Attended/unattended…
CristianoGomes - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Supports long-running asynchronous processes effectively but has not evolved much in recent years
I think Camunda is focusing too much on the SaaS offering right now and not much on improving and developing the product itself. I did not see any innovations on that aspect, especially for the open-source version. I was making some tests recently and the tool seemed pretty much the same as it was three or four years ago. Since they made the move to cloud deployment in a more SaaS-oriented way, they do not invest too much in the community version. To be honest, it did not change much from the Activiti initial version. Activiti was pretty much what Camunda is today. They invested a lot on Zeebe and made it the engine for their SaaS cloud version. Camunda itself, the embedded engine, did not evolve too much. They could invest more on that.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."
"Before implementing this product, our Problem and Change Management Processes were very poor, but nowadays, thanks to CA Process Automation (PAM), we no longer have this problem, as we now have all of the processes' rules placed inside of it."
"It’s a great product, extremely versatile but takes a certain skillset to use and implementation of automation can be time consuming when done properly."
"The benefits are the efficiency we achieve with such a product, as we could automate processes which were done in the past by humans, speeding up the reaction by 10 times and saving us a lot of money."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"It has provided ROI by auto-resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."
"The value lies in just being able to automate things such that there's less human interaction and, therefore, more consistency in our automations."
"PAM has the ability to integrate and build solutions that work well in CA's suite of service management products and those that are outside of service management."
"Even in the community versions the product is very stable and with excellent scalability results."
"Overall, the solution has been very solid."
"Since day one, our goal was to build reusable components that can be used in other projects, and we recently did a discovery for one of our projects and we found that we could reuse 80 percent of what we had developed on the Camunda platform, and the microservices and the connectors were reusable and that really reduced the development effort drastically for that use case."
"Camunda BPM allows us to have a BPM bot with our own UI, and that's what we liked most about Camunda."
"Using such a solution gives our clients great flexibility and a short time to market for new product implementations."
"I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features."
"The biggest difference between Camunda and Bonita might be that Camunda is simpler and more flexible for setting, though we are at the beginning and need to experiment."
"It has an open BPM"
 

Cons

"I'd like to see additional form functionality and having Python as an available common script language."
"Make some of the features more open source that way developers can have more flexibility."
"Although it's drag-and-drop, there's a little bit of a learning curve to use it correctly."
"It’s very complex, which is one of the disadvantages."
"The solution engine is in Java. Regardless of developments, the solution will always be limited to what Java offers."
"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
"Every so often the service needs to be restarted otherwise it runs slower and slower. I think this may be due to a memory leak."
"CA offers minimal public information pertaining to the performance drain the usage of some objects and operators introduce to processing."
"On the other hand, if I were rating it for use by the public then I would rate it a three out of ten."
"Stability-wise, Camunda is good, but sometimes task queries get very slow when we have a large number of tasks."
"Support is an area that is in need of improvement."
"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."
"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."
"If they could build some scripts or some configuration to get it up and running in a Docker environment, that would be good. I didn't find anything when on Docker, however, maybe they have something and I didn't see it yet."
"Community support is basically what I'm looking for. Other than that, it is okay for now."
"An improvement would be to support Angular 2 instead of AngularJS, which is quite old."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has provided ROI by auto resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."
"There are a lot of automation savings from any process which is repeatable."
"Camunda is much cheaper."
"Camunda Platform is an open-source product."
"We have an annual subscription to this solution."
"Camunda has a free service as well as a commercial service. We are using the free service."
"The price is competitive with products like Bonitasoft and RHPAM (Red Hat Process Automation Manager). We have two versions of Camunda. The first version was open source, without support, but then we got a supported version."
"In Africa, the cost of deployment is an important factor to consider since it adds to the overall cost. This might be the only drawback to using it."
"Its price is decent. Everything is included in the license. The Community version is also good to start with. We are using the Community version."
"The product's price depends on the number of processes that need to be automated or where the orchestration part needs to be used. The product is affordable for medium and large enterprises."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Performing Arts
8%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
 

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Also Known As

CA IT Process Automation Manager
Camunda BPM
 

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Sample Customers

Unum, HCL Technologies, Logicalis
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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