We performed a comparison between Bonita and Gen based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Apache, Pega and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."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."
"I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"Development of forms and flows."
"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."
"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."
"Bonita is user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Full packets, enable you to develop software and systems using these packets, and implement software on the mainframe side and the client side. You can use the same packets, so it's very powerful."
"CA Gen has provided us web development capability."
"You can easily manage the code, and you can easily find other changes, other group changes, other models, other components."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."
"There is a need for more components in the library and additional customization options for these components."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"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."
"It is missing some important features that other products have."
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"The product needs to be well marketed, then adopted. I am not seeing many customers using the product."
"I cannot use DB2 specifications, DB2 comments, easily."
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Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 27 reviews while Gen is ranked 4th in Mainframe Application Development. Bonita is rated 8.2, while Gen is rated 8.6. 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 Gen writes "Rapid development software tool. Mature solution to make changes and put them in production". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and ProcessMaker, whereas Gen is most compared with IBM Rational Developer for z Systems.
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