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."We're running it on a virtual server, which we can easily upgrade if needed."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"The best feature is the customization."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"The reason we went with Airflow is its DAG presentation, that shows the relationships among everything. It's more of a configuration-driven workflow."
"Since Apache works very well on Python, we can manage everything and create pipelines there."
"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."
"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."
"Bonita is user-friendly."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features."
"I really enjoy using the workflow management."
"It is a great product that is powerful in developing applications."
"The solution is easy to use."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"UI can be improved with additional user-friendly features for non-programmers and for fewer coding practitioner requirements."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"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."
"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."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."
"The dashboard has limited features."
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, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, ProcessMaker and Appian. See our Apache Airflow vs. Bonita report.
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