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.
"The solution is easy to use."
"This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."
"Flexible and drag-and-drop type of UI is very valuable. The integrations are also very good. You can build workflows very quickly, which is my favorite activity. By using the GUI, you can build the entire mechanism, notifications, and all this kind of stuff."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"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."
"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."
"Development of forms and flows."
"Camunda Platform is better than IBM BPM, and Azure. It is more elaborate."
", Camunda can be a powerful tool to work with when used in an optimized and well-implemented manner."
"Camunda's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with different products."
"The best feature is the automation."
"The integration with almost any language, product, and even human tasks, is valuable. It's very seamless to integrate into existing systems. It doesn't require you to rewrite a lot of your existing system. That's where it really stands out."
"One reason we selected Camunda or Cloud/DB is that it comes with the support of the BPMN notation, which helps to define processes in a standard manner. Another reason was that Camunda Cloud, as the name says, is designed for a new cloud era."
"The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it."
"I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features."
"There is a considerable learning curve."
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"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."
"We are struggling a bit with integrations."
"It is missing some important features that other products have."
"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 migration strategy needs to be improved."
"They could provide more documentation regarding the integration of different programming languages."
"It has a Postgres database at the backend, and it is very difficult to scale if you increase the number of processes running. We did hit some barriers. We were able to overcome them, but it was a problem. Camunda has another product called Camunda Cloud, which supposedly doesn't have the same scalability problems, but we are not using Camunda Cloud because the set of features is smaller than Camunda On-Premises. So, its scalability can be improved. Because it has a single database, it is more difficult to scale if you have a huge success."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"When addressing a complex and extensive process, the domain it belongs to, be it banking, healthcare, or HR, requires widespread access."
"Lacking in forms visualization."
"The solution could use some enhancements like adding connectors, improving forms and having a mobile app, but everything is an enhancement rather than a flaw."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
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.