We compared Bonita and Camunda based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
User reviews indicate that Bonita is highly praised for its user-friendly interface, customization options, seamless integration, and process automation. On the other hand, Camunda stands out for its exceptional workflow management, task allocation, and tracking abilities. While Bonita focuses on user satisfaction and cost-effective pricing, Camunda excels in customer service and flexible licensing options. Areas for improvement in Bonita include the user interface and integration capabilities, while Camunda could benefit from more intuitive interfaces and better documentation.
Features: The valuable features of Bonita include a user-friendly interface, powerful workflow management capabilities, comprehensive customization options, seamless integration with existing systems, and efficient process automation. On the other hand, Camunda is praised for its exceptional workflow management capabilities, task allocation and tracking efficiency, seamless integration with other systems, user-friendly graphical interface, flexible customization options, and reliable performance.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Bonita is reported to be straightforward and hassle-free, ensuring an easy implementation process. Users appreciate that the licensing aspect of Bonita offers flexibility with different options. For Camunda, users find the setup cost not overly complicated or time-consuming, with licensing praised for being flexible and accommodating., Users have reported positive ROI from both Bonita and Camunda. Bonita focuses on optimizing processes and improving efficiency, while Camunda excels in streamlining business processes and improving workflow management, leading to increased productivity and cost-effectiveness.
Room for Improvement: Bonita has room for improvement in terms of user interface, functionality, ease of use, and integration capabilities. On the other hand, Camunda could enhance its user interface, documentation, and integration capabilities to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Bonita focus on highlighting the importance of considering both deployment and setup timeframes, and the experiences of users in implementing the tech solution. On the other hand, the reviews for Camunda mention varying durations for deployment and setup, emphasizing the need to evaluate the context in which the terms are used., Bonita's customer service stands out due to the helpful and responsive assistance provided by their team. Users appreciate the advice and guidance received, which exceeded their expectations. On the other hand, Camunda's customer service receives positive acclaim for its prompt response times and helpful assistance. Users express satisfaction with the reliability, effectiveness, expertise, and professionalism exhibited throughout their interactions.
The summary above is based on 28 interviews we conducted recently with Bonita and Camunda users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Bonita is user-friendly."
"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 solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."
"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."
"I really enjoy using the workflow management."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"Ease of use and ability to streamline a process model."
"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."
"Camunda's process diagram creation and deployment is very easy."
"Using the BPMN helps us to have a common shared communication language when discussing processes."
"I think that the positives of Camunda Platform are that our customers can start with the free version. I think it is the most important."
"For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share the logic within the rules engine with the business, so you can put it up for everybody to read."
"It has an open BPM"
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"Installation could be made easier."
"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."
"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."
"Would be helpful if there were additional out-of-the-box activities."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"If Camunda could develop something that creates user forms that would be a great feature to have. They also need to improve the UI."
"Camunda could be improved by making it easier to modify a process. You can program it to follow a process, but it is difficult to modify the process when the application is in use. It could also be improved by making it easier to use the visual platform without needing to be informed on that. Sometimes, we programmers haven't used it in the past, and it's a bit difficult to learn it."
"They could provide more documentation regarding the integration of different programming languages."
"I think that Camunda can try to do better when it comes to solving the complexities of all the products in its software stack."
"Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved."
"I think it would be important to internationalize the Cockpit and the Admin as well as with the Tasklist."
Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Design with 27 reviews while Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 71 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Camunda is rated 8.2. 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 Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". Bonita is most compared with Bizagi, Apache Airflow, IBM BPM, Appian and ProcessMaker, whereas Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and AWS Step Functions. See our Bonita vs. Camunda report.
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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 can build workflows very quickly and the integrations are very good. They offer a community version, which can be used for free.
However, the community edition of Bonita has very limited module functionality. If there was more functionality available from the enterprise edition, this would make Bonita an easier solution to learn. We have experienced some problems due to lack of documentation; more would be better, as would sample source code.
Camunda allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very quickly. This solution is very stable with a free open-source version that is very good. The automation of this solution is great.
Camunda can be challenging in terms of initial setup. It seems to take a long time for completed workflows to be implemented on the Camunda Platform. The learning curve for this solution can be pretty steep. A mobile app would be a welcome enhancement to this solution. Process interfaces between diagrams could be improved and better template options would be welcomed.
Conclusion
After researching both these solutions closely, we chose the Camunda Platform. We feel Camunda is very stable, excellent at tracking bugs, and has a powerful BPMN engine. Camunda Platform is very developer-friendly and has helped us optimize our business process and achieve our productivity and profitability goals. We found Camunda Platform to be very portable. The cross-language capabilities support multiple frameworks and the number of client implementations make Camunda Platform very pluggable and a very good choice for us.