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We performed a comparison between Bonita and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Bonita vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow Report (Updated: April 2024).
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Pros
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable.""I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features.""The solution is easy to use.""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 really enjoy using the workflow management.""Development of forms and flows.""Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy.""Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."

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"It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process.""It performs the basic tasks that are required for the BBM solution as part of the overall integration with ECM or enterprise contact management.""It gives us the ability to create toolkits and use them across many different applications. It allows us to write things one time, instead of having to write a diary for every single different application. We can write at once and reuse it.""The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily.""The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through.""This product is tightly integrated with the RPA automation process.""It provides a solution for integration orchestration. This solution is for any organization in the banking, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and all domains and industries.""The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."

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Cons
"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve.""Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product.""Installation could be made easier.""The dashboard has limited features.""There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity.""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.""It is missing some important features that other products have."

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"The development UI is sometimes a little slow.""The initial setup is actually a really complicated process.""One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise.""From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help.""Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view.""Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities.""IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration.""I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "have installed the image of Bonita BPM on Amazon AWS and there is just one option to use and pay for."
  • "Price to service ratio with Bonita BPM is good."
  • "I believe this is a very good financial choice."
  • "The Community Edition comes free of charge."
  • "We are using the Community Version, which can be used free of charge."
  • "Licensing cost for the Enterprise edition comes out to be around 40,000 a year. There is also a Community edition, which is free. Some customers can go for the Community edition, but some of them require the Enterprise edition. Big companies go for the Enterprise edition, which comes with a lot of additional features such as a mobile app."
  • "The price of the solution is reasonable."
  • "The price is fair for what we are using the solution for."
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  • "The solution has saved us time."
  • "There is still a relatively high total cost of ownership to actually implement, support, and stand up solutions."
  • "Nowadays, clients are looking at pricing as one of the major factors. For IBM products, they always think it is expensive for them. We are still educating our clients on the IBM FlexPoints licensing."
  • "When you compare with Laserfiche and M-Files, IBM is expensive."
  • "Licensing varies by use-case."
  • "IBM Business Automation Workflow has a flexible pricing mode, but the price is expensive. The price of the solution reflects the quality of the solution which is very high. The technical support is an additional cost."
  • "Our license is on a three-year term."
  • "It is on the expensive side, but it provides excellent supportability and an ecosystem that is proven to be a great fit for our organization."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:The user interface is easy to use.
    Top Answer:We researched both IBM solutions and in the end, we chose Business Automation Workflow IBM BPM has a good user interface and the BPM coach is a helpful tool. The API is very useful in providing… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management.
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    Bonita BPM
    Business Automation Workflow
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    Overview
    Bonitasoft helps innovative companies worldwide deliver better digital user experiences for customers and employees. The extensible and open Bonita application platform unleashes the full potential of multidisciplinary development teams to create Living Apps: applications that allow continuous and incremental improvement, connecting tailored user interfaces with reliable back-office operations.

    IBM Business Automation Workflow combines business process management and case management capabilities in one workflow solution. It integrates the capabilities of business process and case management into a single workflow offering. It unites information, process, and users to provide a 360-degree view of work to drive more successful optimized business outcomes. IBM Business Automation Workflow on Cloud provides the same capabilities that are offered in the IBM Business Automation Workflow offering, all within a ready-to-use, cloud-based environment that is hosted in IBM Cloud data centers and managed by IBM.

    Sample Customers
    With more than 1000 customers in 75 countries, and its ecosystem of more than 120,000 members, Bonitasoft is the largest provider of open-source Business Process Management, Low-code and Digital Transformation software worldwide.
    Key Bank, Barclays, Control€xpert, MIR Insurance Brokers, Conqord Oil
    Top Industries
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    Energy/Utilities Company20%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company20%
    Retailer10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Educational Organization8%
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    Financial Services Firm64%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Engineering Company7%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm34%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company7%
    Government6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business48%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise38%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    Buyer's Guide
    Bonita vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow
    April 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Bonita vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow and other solutions. Updated: April 2024.
    767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 27 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and ProcessMaker, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions and IBM Case Foundation. See our Bonita vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.

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