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Camunda vs Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (1st), Process Automation (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (6th)
Ultimus Adaptive Business P...
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
46th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Camunda is 7.7%, down from 20.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management is 0.8%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Camunda7.7%
Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management0.8%
Other91.5%
Business Process Management (BPM)
 

Featured Reviews

CristianoGomes - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Supports long-running asynchronous processes effectively but has not evolved much in recent years
I think Camunda is focusing too much on the SaaS offering right now and not much on improving and developing the product itself. I did not see any innovations on that aspect, especially for the open-source version. I was making some tests recently and the tool seemed pretty much the same as it was three or four years ago. Since they made the move to cloud deployment in a more SaaS-oriented way, they do not invest too much in the community version. To be honest, it did not change much from the Activiti initial version. Activiti was pretty much what Camunda is today. They invested a lot on Zeebe and made it the engine for their SaaS cloud version. Camunda itself, the embedded engine, did not evolve too much. They could invest more on that.
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Especialista en bases de datos at Banco de Desarrollo del Ecuador
Integrates well and helpful support
Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management has good integration with all the other tools we have been using in our company. We use the data that other tools provide in our implementation. We have developed several processes here in the company, such as requests for change, request development, and buying processes. The tool allows you to modify the business rules without the need to modify the source code, the administrator can move the process one step to another without needing to be implemented in the logic of the automation, this can be done from the administration console Or with the integration EIK, there is a wide number of options for the administrator who gives you great flexibility in your administration.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Camunda BPM allows us to have a BPM bot with our own UI, and that's what we liked most about Camunda."
"For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly."
"It's user friendly, much better than most tools I have seen."
"Camunda is the best among similar solutions like JBPM and Activiti."
"We evaluated Appian for my current job but it's less beneficial if your aim is to have your customers at the front end, and we took the middle road when we went with Camunda and the flexibility it offers is a big advantage for us."
"The modeler is useful for creating the flow. The way to access the data through their REST API is also valuable. This is what we're using right now."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"The documentation and all that they have done is just splendid."
"Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management has good integration with all the other tools we have been using in our company, and the tool allows you to modify the business rules without the need to modify the source code, giving great flexibility in administration."
"Development is easy on the Ultimus platform."
"Development is easy on the Ultimus platform."
"Ultimus Adaptive Business Process Management has good integration with all the other tools we have been using in our company. We use the data that other tools provide in our implementation."
 

Cons

"I have faced problems in bringing up the Cockpit in terms of GUI processes."
"Right now we are trying to solve problems with the Camunda Cloud and there are significant problems with performance."
"It is not difficult to change existing processes. The difficulty was in integration, for example, to call an external web API, and in the security capabilities, to use a vault for secrets. That was difficult."
"Probably one area I look forward to has to do with AI and how Camunda sees the AI angle on workflow."
"The cockpit features of the Camunda Platform can be improved to make it a bit more user-friendly, in terms of providing a bit more user experience for non-technical users. There could be some additional documentation added."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"Camunda needs to improve its user interface for low-code development and provide more user interface options beyond the basic workflow."
"Initially, installation was challenging, but recent improvements have made it much easier."
"The tool does not save the reprocessing of the steps, this has to be done with own implementations, stores the whole story of a process instance but in a non-processable format for statistics without doing prior job."
"We are looking for a feature that can resign and move the process from one step to another step."
"Ultimus is not good at handling cash transactions."
"Ultimus is not good at handling cash transactions. They should add a mobile application in the next release."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is decent. Everything is included in the license. The Community version is also good to start with. We are using the Community version."
"We're using the open-source version for now."
"There were some features that were only available in the paid version."
"We use the open-source version, which can be used at no cost."
"There is a bit of scope for improvement in how the licensing and pricing are done. They are based on the number of processing instances you execute on the cluster... but on the self-hosted mode, the pricing model should be customized."
"In Africa, the cost of deployment is an important factor to consider since it adds to the overall cost. This might be the only drawback to using it."
"We are using the open-source version, free of charge. We didn't bother with the enterprise features."
"It is less cost-prohibitive than other solutions on the market. This solution was in our price range."
"Ultimus could stand to lower the price. Other tools are cheaper."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
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Sample Customers

24 Hour Fitness, Accruent, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, CSS Insurance, Deutsche Telekom, Generali, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, Swisscom AG, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VHV Group, Zalando
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