ARIS BPA vs Bonita comparison

Software AG and Bonitasoft are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. Software AG is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.7, while Bonitasoft is ranked #25 with an average rating of 7.0. Software AG holds a 2.9% mindshare in BPM, compared to Bonitasoft’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Bonitasoft users who would recommend it.

ARIS BPA

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

ARIS BPA and Bonita are competitors in the business process management and automation software market. ARIS BPA appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, ideal for large-scale enterprises, despite being costlier and more complex than Bonita.

Features: ARIS BPA offers extensive process modeling capabilities with support for notations like EPC and BPMN. It includes advanced tools for simulation, analysis, and reporting, and seamless integration with systems like SAP. Bonita focuses on ease of process automation with a user-friendly drag-and-drop UI, Java integration, and strong community support, providing a low-code approach suitable for diverse platforms.

Room for Improvement: ARIS BPA is criticized for its high costs and complex integration, with a call for improvements in real-time analysis and easier integration. Bonita faces challenges in intuitive design and mobile support, with desired enhancements in form building and better IoT connectivity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ARIS BPA supports diverse cloud and on-premises deployments but needs better integration and adaptability. Its support receives mixed feedback. Bonita is praised for straightforward deployment but could enhance support and documentation. ARIS's deployment is more complex, while Bonita offers simplicity and guidance.

Pricing and ROI: ARIS BPA is expensive with complex licensing, challenging affordability for smaller enterprises but providing substantial ROI for large organizations. Bonita offers flexible licensing with a free community edition, making it cost-effective with a pay-per-year model that is attractive without user limits.

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Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA

Ranking in Business Process Design

6th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Bonita

Ranking in Business Process Design

13th

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

25th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 2.9%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bonita is 2.1%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ARIS BPA	2.9%
Bonita	2.1%
Other	95.0%

Business Process Management (BPM)

Q&A Highlights

it_user548199

Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Nov 29, 2016

ARIS, Bonita, and Bizagi -- Do you have a comparison table between them?

Please find our three comparison pages that compare each of the products you listed with eachother: 1. ARIS BPM vs. Bonita BPM https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/aris-bpm_vs_bonita-bpm 2. ARIS BPM vs. Bizagi https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/aris-bpm_vs_bizagi 3. Bizagi vs. Bonita BPM https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/bizagi_vs_bonita-bpm

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Featured Reviews

BeenishMustafa

Consultant at KAFD DMC

Has improved process modeling and analysis while supporting integration with organizational data

The process design in ARIS BPA does help with our operational efficiency. What we are doing is object library management for various kinds of objects that we are using in ARIS BPA during our process modeling. We are using that to do a lot of analysis on how many times a system is being used in how many processes, who are the major stakeholders, and if we enhance one system, how is it going to impact other processes and integrated processes. This is helping us a lot. Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual. We are doing a lot of things with regards to the processes as it is at our heart. Processes are one thing and then we have different kinds of things which are related to it, such as SLAs, guidelines, and policy. We are identifying areas of improvement in other documents as well.

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Paparao Nadipineni

Architect at Evoke

A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations

The initial setup is straightforward and can be completed with the environment within an hour. First, take the latest from the git repository and check the git code to the monitor studio and a bar file, a deployable Bonita archive file. Then, take that process to the Bonita server, running at runtime on another server. Finally, deploy and enable it by selecting the proper organization.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."

"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."

"ARIS BPA has a good directory option, which helps to keep track of all of your metadata, and that's very useful."

"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."

"The solution's basic features are easy to use, overall designed well, and it has good process mining analysis."

"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."

"We chose ARIS because of its good reputation and familiarity with Software AG Tools."

"I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."

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"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."

"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."

"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."

"The solution is easy to use."

"This product is very easy-to-use and user-friendly."

"I find process management and user interface designing the most valuable features."

"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."

"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."

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Cons

"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."

"In terms of improvement, the app could use some small details and functionalities."

"There are reports available in ARIS and you can modify them a bit if you want something more specific, but it's not that easy to adjust them and make modifications. It would be nice to have some kind of tool to do that, something that is more user-friendly for people who are not too technical, so that they could create reports the way they want them."

"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."

"The interface is a little archaic."

"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."

"The tool must provide more documents."

"The reporting capabilities and the ability to create custom reports need to be simplified and made easy so that people even with a good functional understanding of the tool can leverage it to create their own custom report."

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"Installation could be made easier."

"Bonita can improve by offering more flexibility. The developer does not receive the code of the application to modify it. Most of the other solutions I have used allow the developers to change or improve the code that is generated."

"The interface is advanced and quite good, but it could improve."

"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."

"We are struggling a bit with integrations."

"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."

"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."

"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Negotiate. Price is high so make sure you’re getting the best deal."

"From my point of view, no, it is not cheap, but it is not too expensive because you get this big organization behind it, technical support, and all those things. It's not so expensive to use. It's a Rolls Royce in this field, I know that. Even for small organizations, they can get so much effect from using this tool, in a very fast way, so the money will be back in the customer's pocket very fast."

"The product is inexpensive."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"Prices are high. However, they are worth it if the organization utilizes the tool to its full potential."

"You will never get a fixed price for this product because they will go in and ask you what kind of environment would you like to set up? How many people will you work with? How big is your organization? Today, they have a fixed price to say, "Okay, just to start the business area, buy two licenses for modeling and eight people that can look into the product." They have this kind of fixed price. It's 50,000 Danish Krone. If you divided that by about six, then you get the pricing in dollars. Still, when you are going out, negotiate and find the right price. You will never get a fixed price: "It costs this and, if you take ten of these, seven of these and eight of these, and then it costs this." No, you negotiate every time."

"ARIS enables you to start small and grow the use of the solution over time, although it's quite expensive. So if you want to start small, it's quite an investment for a small company."

"We have a concurrent license system."

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"The product is not cheaper, not costlier; it is reasonable. Bonita’s license is very flexible, with options to meet the needs of different customers and clients. Previously, it was less flexible, but now, many different licensing options are available."

"You pay an annual fee and can have an unlimited number of processes and users."

"I believe this is a very good financial choice."

"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."

"Price to service ratio with Bonita BPM is good."

"have installed the image of Bonita BPM on Amazon AWS and there is just one option to use and pay for."

"The Enterprise edition is very expensive."

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Answers from the Community

it_user548199

Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Nov 29, 2016

ARIS, Bonita, and Bizagi -- Do you have a comparison table between them?

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it_user326337

Customer Success Manager at PeerSpot

Nov 15, 2016

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it_user548199

Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Nov 29, 2016

Esperaba algo mas de este estilo, sin embargo desarrollé esta tabla de comparación de Suites BPM, la cuál no puedo anexar por lo que dejo en formato de texto en caso deque alguien requiera este conocimiento. Esta tabla fue desarrollada basandome en textos acádemicos de fuentes confiables. Sin embargo no pude encontrar el numero aproximado de clientes que usan ARIS, por lo que si alguien cuenta con esta información se lo agradecería mucho, ya que es el último dato que requiero para completar esta tabla comparativa. BizAgi Suite, Bonita BPM, IBM Suite, ARIS + Webmethods, AuraPortal, Oracle Suite, Appian eBPM HOPEX Requiere pago Software licenciado (anual o perpetuo), freeware en versiones académicas Versión pagada (licenciamiento anual) y versión gratuita Software licenciado Software licenciado Software licenciado Versión pagada y versión gratuita Software licenciado Versión pagada y versión gratuita Código abierto No Si (GPL) No No No No No No Diseño intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Medianamente intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Requiere tiempo de adaptación Medianamente intuitivo Bastante Intuitivo Acceso a licencia de prueba. Si No No Si Si No Si Si Tutoriales y Soporte técnico Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Notación para diagramar BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0, BPEL BPMN 2.0, EPC BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0, BPEL BPMN 2.0, EPC BPMN 2.0 Compatibilidad con base de datos SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, HSQL SQL Server SQL Server, Oracle SQL Server Oracle SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL SQL Server, Oracle Sistema operativo Windows, Linux Multi-plataforma Multi-plataforma Windows, Linux, Mac Windows Multi-plataforma Windows, Linux, Solaris Windows Monitoreo en tiempo real Si Si Si No Si Si Si Regular Servicio en la nube Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Si Requiere programación No No Poco Poco No Si Poco No Número de clientes >500 >1000 >3500 >800 >2000 >2000 >2700 Principales clientes Adidas Group, BBVA, Telefónica, BNP Paribas Xerox, Stanford University, CSC Barclays, Emericon, Banca popolare di Milano, Saperion Fujitsu, Coca Cola, Electrolux, ING, Credit Suisse Toyota, RSA Chile, Coprusa Group, Refinery of the Pacific REDISA, Panduit, Total E&P Indonesie Amazon, M&T Bank, Nissan, Ford, Baxter Credit Union GNP, P&G, EuroControl, British American Tobacco Permite importar/exportar archivos BPMN Si Si Si Si Si Solo importación Si Si Nivel de documentación Medio Alto Medio Alto Alto Medio Bajo Alto Considera reglas de Negocio Si Si No Si Si No Si Si Validación de Modelo (diagramas) Si Si Si Si No Si Si Permite simulación Si Si Si Si Si Si Si No Requiere conocimiento del producto Poco Poco Normal Poco Poco Normal Normal Poco Año primera versión lanzada 1989 2001 1998 2009 2001 1997 1999 1994 Accesibilidad móvil Si Si Si Si Si Si Si No Nivel de seguridad Regular Regular Regular Alto Alto Alto Facilidad de instalación Sencilla Sencilla Sencilla Sencilla Sencilla Media Sencilla Media Versión en español SI Si Si No Si Si No Si Saludos.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

It is a bit expensive regarding ARIS BPA. However, ARIS BPA does save a lot of effort because this is one tool which can be used for multiple purposes and the viewers have the capability to perform...

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

We are not using any what-if scenario features in ARIS BPA. Currently, we are not using the performance monitoring and compliance checks features in ARIS BPA. We have plans to use them, but current...

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How does Bonita compare with Camunda Platform?

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 c...

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What do you like most about Bonita?

The user interface is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bonita?

The Enterprise edition is very expensive.

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Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM

Bonita BPM

Overview

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

Software AG

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.

Bonitasoft

Sample Customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.

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.

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