We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Bonita based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"It's stable."
"The best feature is the customization."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"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."
"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."
"Development of forms and flows."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"The documentation must be improved."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"We are struggling a bit with integrations."
"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."
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"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."
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 27 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Bonita is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Informatica Business Process Manager, whereas Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Appian and ProcessMaker. See our Apache Airflow vs. Bonita report.
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