Bonita is an open-source
business process management and
Low-code development platform
A low-code development platform (LCDP) provides a development environment used to create application software through a graphical user interface. A low-coded platform may produce entirely operational applications, or require additional coding for s ...
created in 2001. Bonita technology was developed originally in 2001 by Miguel Valdés Faura, at the
French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, and subsequently transferred to
Groupe Bull
Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General El ...
. In 2009, the Director of the BPM division, Miguel Valdes Faura, founded Bonitasoft, which is a French open-source software vendor.
The company
Bonitasoft is a French open-source software vendor, founded in 2009 by Miguel Valdes Faura (currently CEO) and Charles Souillard (currently COO). Its flagship process automation platform for applications and BPM projects is Bonita, which has been extended with two integratable technology modules (Bonita Continuous Delivery for DevOps, and Bonita Intelligent Continuous Improvement for process prediction using AI) and is now also available as a Bonita Cloud edition, launched in 2019.
Bonitasoft originally raised more than 28 million euros dedicated to the creation of its business (in 2009 4.5 million euros from Ventech and Auriga, in 2011, 8 million from Serena Capital and in 2013, 10 million from its investment funds and BPI, then 5 million in 2014 from the same investors). In 2018 Bonitasoft had an overall new business growth of 45%, and a customer renewal rate of 93%. The company has been profitable since 2017.
Features
The Bonita application platform has several major components:
;Bonita Studio: It allows the user to graphically modify business processes using parts of the
BPMN
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model.
Originally developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), BPMN has been maintained by the Ob ...
standard. The user can also connect processes to other pieces of the
information system
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...
(such as messaging,
enterprise resource planning,
enterprise content management
Enterprise content management (ECM) extends the concept of content management by adding a timeline for each content item and, possibly, enforcing processes for its creation, approval and distribution. Systems using ECM generally provide a secure ...
, and
database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...
s) in order to generate an autonomous business application accessible via web portals, web forms, and mobile devices. Bonita Studio also allows the user to start with processes designed with other standards and technologies such as
XPDL or
jBPM
jBPM (Java Business Process Model) is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0 (or its own process definition language jPDL in earlier versions). jBPM is a toolkit for building bus ...
. It is based on
Eclipse
An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three ce ...
.
;Bonita BPM Engine: The BPM process engine is a
Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
application that executes process definitions created with Bonita Studio. REST and Bonita Engine APIs allow the user to interact programmatically with other processes, platforms, and information systems. It is available under
LGPL
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own ...
.
;Bonita Portal: This is an out-of-the-box portal that allows end-users to manage the tasks in which they are involved. The Bonita portal also allows the owner of a process to administer and to get reports about processes. It is based on
AngularJS
AngularJS is a discontinued free and open-source JavaScript-based web framework for developing single-page applications. It was maintained mainly by Google and a community of individuals and corporations. It aimed to simplify both the development ...
.
;Bonita UI Designer: Provides out-of-the-box features, based on AngularJS and Bootstrap, and extension points that allow user interface developers to mix graphical tools, tooling and frameworks, and custom coding to develop customized user interfaces.
;Bonita Continuous Delivery: An add–on based on
Docker and
Ansible
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that permits automatic provisioning with
Amazon AWS
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cloud technology.
Bonita BPM is
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
and can be downloaded under
GPL
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...
.
Releases
* 2001: First version of Bonita, at INRIA
* 2008: Bonita 4, at Groupe Bull
* June 2009: Creation of Bonitasoft, the company supporting Bonita BPM
* September 2009: Bonitasoft raises 3 million dollars
* January 2010: Release of Bonita Open Solution, 5th version of Bonita.
* June 2010: Release of Bonita Open Solution 5.2
* October 2010: Release of 5.2.4 (installer size, 219 MB; installed folder size, 331 MB)
* November 2010: Launched Bonita Open Solution 5.3
* 22–23 December 2010: Bonita Open Solution 5.3.2 is released. Bonitasoft reaches 100 paying customers of its software BOS
* January 27, 2011: Bonita Open Solution 5.4 was released., which offers key feature upgrades to achieve greater usability. Bonita Open Solution was downloaded more than half million times.
* May 27, 2011: Bonita Open Solution 5.5 was released, which builds critical new features into Bonitasoft's core offering that make developing, testing and managing BPM applications faster and easier.
* September 13, 2011: Bonitasoft closes $11 million Series B funding to fuel continued worldwide growth and momentum.
* October 19, 2011: Bonitasoft BPM surpasses one million downloads and 250 paying customers.
* October 27, 2011: Bonita Open Solution 5.6 released, adding new offers to maximize productivity, accelerate business process-driven application delivery, and secure mission critical deployments.
*September 28, 2012: 5.7.3
*October 11, 2012: 5.8
*November 20, 2012: 5.9
*January 8, 2013: 5.9.1
*March 15, 2013: 5.10 – Supports clustering on the Bonitasoft Subscription Packs (SP) but not clustering on the Bonitasoft Open Source (BOS).
*June 5, 2013: Bonita BPM 6.0 was released, with a complete rewrite of the Engine and the Portal.
*July 8, 2014: Bonitasoft introduces BonitaCloud
*December 16, 2014: Bonita BPM 6.4.0
*June 18, 2015: Bonita BPM 7.0.0
Bonitasoft ties BPM, traditional enterprise apps together in latest update
, 18-06-2015
*August 6, 2015: Bonita BPM 7.0.2
*September 16, 2015: Bonita BPM 7.1
*Feb 9, 2016: Bonita BPM 7.2
*July 19, 2016: Bonita BPM 7.3
*January 5, 2017: Bonita BPM 7.4
*May 30, 2017: Bonita BPM 7.5
*December 8, 2017: Bonita 7.6
See also
* Business process modeling
* Business Process Model and Notation
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model.
Originally developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), BPMN has been maintained by the Ob ...
*
* Digital transformation
Digital transformation is the adoption of digital technology by an organization to digitize non-digital products, services or operations. The goal for its implementation is to increase value through innovation, invention, customer experience or ef ...
* List of free and open-source software packages
* Low-code development platforms
A low-code development platform (LCDP) provides a development environment used to create application software through a graphical user interface. A low-coded platform may produce entirely operational applications, or require additional coding for s ...
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