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Joscelyn Jean - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solution Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

We started with Camunda. 

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Anmol Rane - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Business Analyst at Allianz

Camunda is the first tool that we have used in our company. I believe that Infosys was using IBM, but they also moved to Camunda recently.

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BN
Product Owner at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We were using a different solution previously.

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JL
Architect intégrateur des processus d'affaire at a government with 10,001+ employees

We had a solution before Camunda, but I don't want to identify it because we did not have a good experience with it.

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arjones - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at ank Platform

We started with Camunda.

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AJ
Staff Software Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
PedroPeres1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Architecture at Syone

In my previous job, we used Appian and I've also used IBM BPM. When I switched jobs I chose Camunda because I found the initial setup to be easier and it's very user-friendly for the projects I'm working on. In some instances, it might not be suitable such as in a bank where there are over 300 processes. In that case, IBM BPM might be a preferable solution, but I don't see much advantage. 

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IS
Senior Business Consultant, Managing Partner at sabi consulting

I did use two platforms intensely in the past. I worked with the IBM Business Process Suite. It was later replaced by the Lombardi solution. Then I was working with and implementing Savvion, which was later bought by Banerjee and now is represented by Aurea Business Process Management Suite, which is still my favorite.

I met in-person with Mr. Ketabchi, who is the father of Savvion Business Process Management Platform and I really believe that it is a very well designed solution and very user-friendly for the business consultants and business process analysts. It is my favorite one. After Progress Software divested this solution and created the Aurea company and distributed it from there, Aurea managers decided that our market is too small for their interest, and we had to search for new solutions.

Then we switched to Cordys and we became a partner Cordys for Central Europe, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia Republic and Hungary.

We implemented Cordys to at least one important customer which is East European broadcasting, TV broadcasting corporation. But then Cordys was diverted by Mr. Baan, the founder of Cordys to OpenText, and again OpenText changed their sales policy. So again, our market is too small for them.

We were searching again for another solution. So the next in the queue was with Bonita and Bizagi, but finally I decided for the free version of Camunda because at that time I only needed something for training purposes because six years ago I started to concentrate on trainings for business process analysts and consultants and for trainings in the area of process automation.

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Yogesh Naik - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Software Engineer at Deserve

I previously used Apache Activiti. Apache Activiti does not have much community activity, but Camunda's community support is very nice.

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SM
Managing Director at Cheltenham Consultants

We did not use another solution prior to this one. It was all greenfield development.

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VR
Engineering Manager at nagra

We used to use K2. We changed from K2 to Camunda mainly due to the licensing cost issues.

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PM
Digital Transformation Solution Manager at Altkom Software & Consutling

We did not use another similar solution but we did have experience with homegrown workflow engines, embedded in business applications.

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SM
Head Of Applications & Data Architecture at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

I have used K2 and some other workflow solutions previously.

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AG
Technical Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

I have limited experience with Appian and Pega BPM, but my most in-depth experience is with Camunda BPM. We did a pilot project with Appian for one or two months and we did one with Pega for about one month.

During our evaluation, we have seen that there are pros and cons to all of them.

We also used K2 as one of the platforms, as well as Microsoft BPM. The Microsoft product was a combination between Dynamics and SharePoint and so forth, it was really rigid. Similarly, K2 has a lot of limitations.

This is important because once we get the business requirements, we adapt to the system. We don't force the business to change, especially in this region. We are in the Middle East, Gulf area, and working with the government sector means that they have their own standards that we need to comply with. They have their own procedures where the tools, the IT, and the process have to be adjusted to meet their requirements. For example, consider a supply chain and the procurement process. This is different from one organization to another.

This is the main thing that holds us back from investing in a system like Pega. Pega, to a certain extent, is good. It has most of the capabilities. It also gives you the room to customize to the extent that you feel fit. However, the cost is too high. When we talk about the licensing costs and the customization costs, it's extremely expensive and out of reach.

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it_user758088 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director (Technology) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

ActiveVOS, but it is not open source. That's one of the reasons we switched.

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SS
Digital Engineering Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I prefer not to mention the other product by name because it seems like I would be saying it was not good enough and had to move on, but we did use a product as a solution before Camunda. Every product has its benefit in terms of what they deliver and we just decided that Camuda BPM fit our needs better than the other solution.  

For example, if we wanted to incorporate a solution in a situation where a client was using the Oracle family of products already, we might use Oracle SOA or Oracle OSB to stay within the family of products. Those choices would be a perfect fit.  

On the other hand, if your stack is Spring Boots and Java and open source, Camunda fits well. If you are stuck in an enterprise using Red Hat, there is Bonita and other Red Hat BPMs that may work best for you.  

What you use depends on a lot of things. It could change because of the recommendations of team members, it might depend on the current environment, it could be influenced by whether the company is new and needs to grow fast or if it is an established company with a predictable trajectory. At the end of the day what you use depends on the choice you make for what best fits your circumstance.  

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AB
Co Founder at Dr. Agile

Previously, I used BPM online, but I changed to Camunda BPM because I downgraded my current requirements.

I enjoyed BPM online but needed a more lightweight tool for modeling. BPM online is cumbersome on the modeling side.

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PD
Senior Technical Manager at Infosys

We previously used a product from Ericsson. 

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UT
Practice Lead at Sky Solutions, LLC

Previously, I worked with JBPM, which was an open-sourced BPM.

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MS
Principal Consultant at Palmira

I also have some experience using Visio as business process management and ARIS as well as Bizagi.

We are partners of Software AG webMethods as an automation tool. We are using Mendix and OutSystems as a low-code solution. ARIS, webMethods, Mendix, and OutSystems are what we mainly use. 

You cannot compare Camunda with ARIS since ARIS is only for our documentation, business process documentation. You cannot compare it with Camunda. It is a totally different scope. However, in comparison between Mendix, OutSystems, and webMethods, they are very expensive tools and ultimately provide the same functionality, yet they are not using a pure BPMN XML. Maybe transferring the workflow between those systems doesn't work. That said, the consistency between, for example, Bonitasoft and Camunda and Bizagi is a matter of import and export. Between other systems such as webMethods and OutSystems and Mendix, for example, in webMethods, they are only still using an enhanced BPM engine mainly, meaning that they are not using the pure or the standard BPM notation. The same applies to Mendix and OutSystems.

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AM
Innovation Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We did not use a prior solution to this solution.

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RA
Business process manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I have used other solutions previously, such as Signavio.

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SV
Senior Software Engineer at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

We used a workflow engine. The reason for switching is compliancy by design. Mainly Object Management Group (OMG) and Triple Crown Standards (BPMN, DMN, CMMN), which are supported by Camunda allowed us to reach this compliancy.

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SS
Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I previously used Activiti, but it had no well-developed tools to monitor administration or develop new processes.

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DK
CTO at Unitarius

We've worked with many different solutions, including IBM, BPM, Oracle, SAP, and VPN platforms, among others.

I like Camunda due to the fact that I can embed it into our infrastructure applications. The library, not the whole sales server.

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TM
CEO at CodeDock.com at Trask solutions a.s.

We used IBM BPM and Activiti BPM but we switched to Camunda because of the pricing model. Camunda is much cheaper. We've also found that IBM BPM is not really stable, some applications are very complex and some project verdicts were not as successful as we expected.

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AM
CGL at Dynamus Clube

I have looked at Bonita Software a little bit, however, I haven't gotten too far in terms of studying it.

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DK
Engineering Manger at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was previously using Activiti. I had been using Activiti for two years. So Camunda is just a branch which has bifurcated from Activiti only.

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PC
Chief Operations Officer (COO) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We used a different solution on another project, years ago.

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BP
Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We did not use another solution previously. Camunda was our first choice.

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it_user314157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Co-founder of Brazilian Chapter at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We knew that we needed to invest in a new solution due to ROI and customer satisfaction. When selecting a vendor, we look for a good road map, scalability and a stable version.

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BL
E-Commerce Business Partner at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

We have previously used JBPM.

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Camunda
March 2024
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765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.