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Camunda vs Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (1st), Process Automation (1st)
Ultimus Adaptive Business P...
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
61st
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Camunda is 20.5%, down from 21.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM)
 

Featured Reviews

FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
Reduces costs with hardware abstraction and simplifies scaling
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. I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory to scale my solution. Not every software is built for deployment as a container service, although the current architecture trend is changing this.
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Integrates well and helpful support
Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management has good integration with all the other tools we have been using in our company. We use the data that other tools provide in our implementation. We have developed several processes here in the company, such as requests for change, request development, and buying processes. The tool allows you to modify the business rules without the need to modify the source code, the administrator can move the process one step to another without needing to be implemented in the logic of the automation, this can be done from the administration console Or with the integration EIK, there is a wide number of options for the administrator who gives you great flexibility in your administration.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

", Camunda can be a powerful tool to work with when used in an optimized and well-implemented manner."
"The architecture is good because it's a headless workflow. I can create my own frontend, and it's fully API-based."
"The most valuable feature is that, with a visual system, you can try to have a process client before beginning the programming for the application."
"It is quite easy to build a simple process without any knowledge of programming."
"We can share, discuss, and develop the model together — from a distance. It's really helped us during these times of isolation."
"I can use any other tools to create services and the UI, and then use them together with the Camunda BPMN engine."
"The best feature is the automation."
"The most valuable features are that it's lightweight, can be embedded in existing Java code, and keeps track of the workflow state and the instances that we need."
"Development is easy on the Ultimus platform."
"Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management has good integration with all the other tools we have been using in our company. We use the data that other tools provide in our implementation."
 

Cons

"The GUI needs to be improved, with more configuration options."
"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."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"In the future, I would definitely like to see the process administration (migration, audit, tracking) and process evaluation (optimize) features added to the community edition."
"I don't like the UI of the Camunda Platform, I have found the Signavio solution to be much better for me to create the process designs and execute them. Additionally, I have found the tools in the Camunda Platform are not compatible with some of my other tools. They should improve this in the future."
"It lacks some preset features and configurations which would make it more plug-and-play for customers."
"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."
"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."
"We are looking for a feature that can resign and move the process from one step to another step."
"Ultimus is not good at handling cash transactions. They should add a mobile application in the next release."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The evaluation of my customers on pricing is that it is reasonable."
"The open-source version of the product is free to use."
"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."
"We use a community version."
"We pay for the license of this solution annually."
"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."
"Cheaper licensing and resources than competitors"
"Camunda has a free service as well as a commercial service. We are using the free service."
"Ultimus could stand to lower the price. Other tools are cheaper."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Sample Customers

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
Ministry of Education Oman, Perdue Farms, MEG Energy Corp., The National and University Library, Unilever
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