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Camunda vs erwin Evolve comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Business Process Design
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (1st), Process Automation (1st), AI Orchestration Frameworks (3rd), Agentic Automation (6th), AI Agent Builders (8th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (4th)
erwin Evolve
Ranking in Business Process Design
19th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Architecture Management (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of Camunda is 6.8%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of erwin Evolve is 2.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Design Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Camunda6.8%
erwin Evolve2.3%
Other90.9%
Business Process Design
 

Featured Reviews

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.
ScottLawson - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Architecture at QAD
Enables us to present data and objects visually, in diagrams, and to make them available via the web. Also enables web-based editing of data.
We tried their collaborative web modeling and we used it with a few people but we tend to not use that piece. We tend to collaborate with the people and then my team of architects draws up the diagram using the modeling tool. We then iterate through those. I would like to use it, but it was a little clunky when they first rolled it out. Overall, it's more about the company having room for improvement. What they need to do is to consolidate more of their products. For example, I was just looking and I couldn't figure out what erwin DT is. It's on the website but it would help if they could put information together and make it more clear as to what products they have and how they work with other things. I hear them talking in the support forums and, when I talk to the representative, they say they're going to do a bunch of stuff but it seems the progress is slow. The changes they need to make are to take their old, legacy product, which we use, and focus a lot on it so they can transform it into a modern cloud tool so that we have fewer little pieces to deal with. They could also fix their security model. It's very confusing to get new people onto the tool and to make sure that your content isn't being exposed to the wrong people.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I think that the positives of Camunda Platform are that our customers can start with the free version, and for testing and learning purposes it is perfect."
"The architectural part of Camunda for workflow design is highly valuable, especially the Camunda Modeler, which allows quick process design and implementation."
"The speed and execution of DMN was a big selling point for us. It's very good at conducting business processes that are easily modeled and presented in a way that's easy to understand."
"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."
"Camunda Platform has a very good interface for workflow and business process design."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"It is simple to use. The user experience is very good."
"The solution is good for data models."
"The feature that stands out for me is the ease of configuring objects and the screens to show them. It's really easy to add a new type of object in this reference. Creating a new type of object, using it, and evolving it a little bit in terms of what we can document about it are the main features that made us decide to use this provider."
"We can efficiently deploy business models into the databases and generate SQL scripts."
"Support for a broad range of data sources from relational to big data to the Cloud."
"Enterprise Architecture improved our organization by giving clarity over the data that is available."
"Its flexibility and scalability to support all stakeholders in making informed decisions are powerful capabilities."
"This product is a cross platform database designer, data inventory control and metadata library, and supports soft link integration."
"The initial setup was really straightforward and the deployment was done within one day."
"The ERwin tool helped to reduce the rate of design and deployment errors and increased the ease of validation."
 

Cons

"It would be helpful to have more readily available use cases on the internet. Camunda's documentation feels less comprehensive."
"Like all BPM tools, they're very bad with proprietary UIs. In general, anyone who uses BPM tools should not expect to use their proprietary UI."
"The only drawback is the time that it takes to have a complete set of workflows implemented on the Camunda platform."
"Documentation can be improved. Right now, the documentation isn't properly organized."
"Right now we are trying to solve problems with the Camunda Cloud and there are significant problems with performance."
"Probably one area I look forward to has to do with AI and how Camunda sees the AI angle on workflow."
"Initially, installation was challenging, but recent improvements have made it much easier."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"It could have had a more streamlined navigation. It seemed that when you went to the explorer panel, there were just so many different ways of doing the work that I could not remember, "How did I do this? How did I get to that point in that model to get back to it?" If I wanted to build a new one, where do I start? It just seemed like there was such a smorgasbord of ways of doing it that it was just overwhelming."
"You can integrate it with almost everything, but you have to watch what you are doing because when too much is integrated it's really hard to manage your errors."
"Business process modelling could be improved."
"Would like to see canonical modeling supported for web services."
"If it had fewer features to model all kinds of architecture, it would be less complicated."
"erwin Evolve by Quest could have additional features to manage the architecture of enterprises and businesses."
"There might be improvement required to better support some of the MPP databases for non-relational data structures and NoSQL databases."
"The solution's integration capabilities with other tools in our system has not been all that well done."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The most attractive feature of the product is that it is open source."
"There is a bit of scope for improvement in how the licensing and pricing are done. They are based on the number of processing instances you execute on the cluster... but on the self-hosted mode, the pricing model should be customized."
"I tried to get some information about buying the license for the solution, but I found it kind of hard to understand the business model."
"We're using the free version. We used the Enterprise version for some time. If I compare free versus what we paid at that time, the Enterprise version costs a lot. For the additional functionality that we got with the Enterprise version, it was too costly."
"The product is expensive for a small or medium-sized company."
"We use a community version."
"We're using the open-source version for now."
"Camunda's pricing is good."
"The cost is something like $15,000, per license. But I haven't looked at those numbers in three years. It was over $100,000 to initially set everything up and get it all configured."
"I estimate that we pay between $40,000 and $50,000 a year for the solution, not including the upfront costs to buy things the first time."
"On a yearly basis, our licensing costs are 50,000 euro. There are no additional costs because we are on a SaaS model."
"Yearly, our cost is €100,000."
"The licensing enables you to differentiate between people who edit the content and the people who consume it. We are able to keep the licensing costs down by keeping the "contributor" licenses to a minimum, and we then just roll out the content in a read-only version for the rest of our users."
"I think erwin is quite expensive. I have difficulty selling the portal, in fact."
"Unless you are a one person shop – always go with the Workgroup edition and Concurrent licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business45
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise35
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise12
 

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Also Known As

Camunda BPM
erwin EA, erwin Business Process, erwin Enterprise Architecture
 

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Sample Customers

24 Hour Fitness, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, Autodesk, Barclays, BNP Paribas, CapitalOne, Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, Gainsight, Generali, Goldman Sachs, Provinzial, NatWest Group, Panasonic, R-Kom, Swisscom AG, VHV Group, Warner Music, WellPoint, Zalando
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