Bonita BPM
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software, Business process management, Low-code development |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founder | Miguel Valdés Faura, Charles Souillard |
| Headquarters | France |
Key people | Miguel Valdés Faura (CEO), Charles Souillard (COO) |
| Products | Bonita BPM platform, Bonita Continuous Delivery, Bonita Intelligent Continuous Improvement, Bonita Cloud edition |
| Website | www |
Bonita is a freely available business process management and low-code development platform that originated in 2001. Initially created by Miguel Valdés Faura at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, the technology was subsequently handed over to Groupe Bull. In 2009, Valdés Faura established Bonitasoft, a French company specializing in open-source software.
The company
Established in 2009 by Miguel Valdes Faura (CEO) and Charles Souillard (COO), Bonitasoft delivers its core process automation solution, Bonita. This platform facilitates BPM projects and applications and is complemented by two optional modules: Bonita Continuous Delivery, designed for DevOps environments, and Bonita Intelligent Continuous Improvement, which incorporates AI for predictive process analysis. Since 2019, Bonita has also been offered as a Cloud edition.
Between 2009 and 2014, the company secured over €28 million in funding from investors such as Ventech, Auriga, Serena Capital, and BPI. Bonitasoft has maintained profitability since 2017.
Features
The Bonita platform encompasses several essential elements:
- Bonita Studio
- A visual editor for designing business processes adhering to BPMN standards. It integrates seamlessly with systems including messaging platforms, enterprise resource planning, enterprise content management, and databases to build autonomous business applications accessible through web portals, forms, and mobile devices. It supports processes created with standards like XPDL or jBPM and is built on the Eclipse framework.
- Bonita BPM Engine
- A process engine developed in Java that executes process definitions crafted in Bonita Studio. It provides RESTful APIs and Engine APIs for integration with external systems. This component is distributed under the LGPL license.
- Bonita Portal
- A ready-to-use portal enabling end-users to handle tasks and process owners to manage workflows and generate reports. It is constructed using AngularJS.
- Bonita UI Designer
- Offers customizable user interface capabilities based on AngularJS and Bootstrap, allowing developers to combine visual design tools with custom coding.
- Bonita Continuous Delivery
- An extension utilizing Docker and Ansible to automate deployment on AWS cloud infrastructure.
Bonita BPM is available under the GPL as open-source software.
Releases
- 2001: Initial version of Bonita created at INRIA
- 2008: Release of Bonita 4 under Groupe Bull
- June 2009: Founding of Bonitasoft to support Bonita BPM
- September 2009: $3 million funding secured by Bonitasoft
- January 2010: Launch of Bonita Open Solution 5
- June 2010: Release of Bonita Open Solution 5.2
- October 2010: Version 5.2.4 published
- November 2010: Introduction of Bonita Open Solution 5.3
- December 2010: Release of Bonita Open Solution 5.3.2; milestone of 100 paying clients reached
- January 2011: Bonita Open Solution 5.4 launched with enhanced usability; downloads exceed half a million
- May 2011: Release of Bonita Open Solution 5.5, improving BPM application development and management
- September 2011: $11 million Series B funding closed to boost international expansion
- October 2011: Over one million downloads and more than 250 paying customers achieved for Bonitasoft BPM
- October 2011: Launch of Bonita Open Solution 5.6 featuring productivity enhancements and deployment security improvements
- September–November 2012: Versions 5.7.3, 5.8, and 5.9 released
- January–March 2013: Versions 5.9.1 and 5.10 introduced; version 5.10 adds clustering support for Subscription Packs
- June 2013: Debut of Bonita BPM 6.0 with a complete redesign of engine and portal
- July 2014: Introduction of the BonitaCloud platform
- December 2014: Release of Bonita BPM version 6.4.0
- June 2015: Launch of Bonita BPM version 7.0 integrating BPM with traditional enterprise applications
- August–September 2015: Versions 7.0.2 and 7.1 rolled out
- February–July 2016: Releases of versions 7.2 and 7.3
- January–May 2017: Versions 7.4 and 7.5 published
- December 2017: Launch of Bonita version 7.6 expanding cloud functionalities including AWS support
- June–December 2018: Versions 7.7 and 7.8 issued
- July 2019: Release of Bonita version 7.9 alongside the initial Bonita Cloud edition
- February–June 2020: Versions 7.10 and 7.11 launched
- January–September 2021: Releases of versions 2021.1 and 2021.2
- March 2022: Latest update with release of Bonita version 2022.1
See also
- Business process modeling
- Business Process Model and Notation
- Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools
- Digital transformation
- List of free and open-source software packages
- Low-code development platforms