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  • Bonitasoft introduces New Tools that Offer Visualization and Monitoring with Business Process Automation

    A brand-new set of visualization and monitoring capabilities and a new reporting application come with the Bonita Digital Process Automation platform for deeper understanding of business process performance and results

    San Francisco, CA, October 5, 2022 – Bonitasoft, the leading open-source digital process automation company, today announced the first release of the Bonita Digital Business Process Management platform that includes native integration with tools produced by the Process Analytics project. With these tools, users can better customize their visualization of processes and cases for improved process monitoring, giving businesses a deeper understanding of how processes are performing as they run.

    The Process Analytics project is an open source project, distributed under the Apache license, that is developing tools to help developers to visualize and monitor process execution data using the BPMN2 standard notation. After two years of development, the Process Analytics project is now advanced enough to offer a set of re-usable, embeddable libraries that can be easily integrated into other existing BPM, RPA, iPaaS, and process mining applications and platforms.

    “We see process analytics as a sub-segment of the Data Analytics market, in which the data model is related to process execution use cases,” said Charles Souillard, CEO and co-founder of Bonitasoft. “The more data about business processes that the platform can mine and offer to business users in an easy-to-consume format, the better decisions they can take about where to optimize, improve, and innovate.”

    The current release of Bonita 2022.2 also has a brand-new Reporting Application that includes process execution reports, with relevant historical data of processes and cases, for analysis of past process performance that will aid in pinpointing areas for improvement.

    Further, Bonitasoft also announces that it has achieved ISO 27001 certification for its Bonita Cloud development, user support, and operations. 27001 certification was confirmed by Bureau Veritas, the world leader in certification, after performing a successful audit of Bonitasoft’s information security practices.

    “We are pleased to have earned this certification for Bonita,” added Nicolas Chabanoles, Chief Product & Technology Officer for Bonitasoft. “We are committed to providing highly secure business process automation for our Bonita customers, partners, and users.”

    The Bonita Community open-source edition includes all capabilities required to develop and deploy process automation projects, and can be downloaded here.

    About Bonitasoft
    Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and modernization of information systems with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with a clear separation between visual programming and coding capabilities. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems and provides deep visibility across all enterprise processes.

  • Bonitasoft offers free boot camps on how to use open source to create automated business process applications

    Popular courses help DevOps professionals learn how to use open source Digital Process Automation with Business Process Management to improve accuracy, flexibility and collaboration of new applications

    San Francisco, February 10 – Bonitasoft, a leading provider of open source digital process automation technology, announced today that it has updated its popular Bonita Camp sessions on BPM (Business Process Management) methodology and how to perform process modeling to create business applications with the Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN2) standard used in its newly released open source digital automation platform.

    Bonitasoft’s BPM bootcamp shows step-by-step through interactive examples how technical and business members of an process team use a common language as they work together on business automation projects, making communication more fluid and improving accuracy and flexibility of their results. This opens up new opportunities for collaboration and leads to the development of new applications, process improvements and more efficient management.

    This new Bonita Camp series has been fully updated to leverage Bonitasoft’s most recent business process automation platform, Bonita 2021.1, so that new users, or those who are still learning about how it works, can familiarize themselves with the core concepts and functionalities, open Bonita Studio and create a first application. The open source Bonita Community edition of the platform is available free of charge, has the same functionality as the commercial edition, and allows anyone to model processes, define a business data model and create connectors and web forms to develop a complete application. All of this is explained step by step during the bootcamp.

    The bootcamps, facilitated by the company’s technical evangelist and Community Manager Delphine Coille, have both a theoretical and practical part and will take place on Feb 18-19  and April 15-16 online. Anyone can download and install Bonita Studio (available for Windows, MacOS and Linux) and register for a Bonita Camp online.

    About Bonitasoft

    Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and modernization of information systems with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with a clear separation between visual programming and coding capabilities. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems and provides deep visibility across all enterprise processes.

  • Bonitasoft Sets New Standard for Open Source Digital Process Automation, Delivering Innovation for Project Collaboration and Governance

    New Bonita DPA platform delivers a unique combination of visual programming and coding capabilities for process automation teams

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 28, 2021 – Bonitasoft, open source digital process automation company, today announced a significant milestone in the democratization of process automation technologies. To meet the growing need for seamless collaboration and governance between business and IT for process automation projects everywhere, Bonitasoft has open-sourced an unprecedented number of features in this major product release.

    Process automation continues to present growing challenges for enterprises, and for the business and IT teams who are responsible for delivering automation projects. To meet the demands of mission-critical projects in today’s digital enterprise, full cooperation and IT-business teamwork all the way down and through the organization is more important than ever. However, the trend to low code solutions to allow more independence for “citizen developers” can take collaboration in the wrong direction, adding governance and maintainability issues. Establishing the rules and policies of corporate and project governance is a mutual responsibility, as is the implementation of “corporate guardrails” via technology in automation projects of all sizes.

    With the Bonita 2021.1 release, Bonitasoft has unified development tools between open source and commercial editions of Bonita Platform to allow process automation teams and organizations to adopt and use open source technology that adapts to their individual project governance needs.

    Bonitasoft offers an alternative to separating professional developer from citizen developer work, by including both visual programming and coding on the same platform. True collaboration from project conception to production, monitoring, and continuous improvement is now possible for process automation teams. This unique approach to low-code in a DPA platform allows professional developers to externalize the code and give them the freedom to continue to use their existing tools while ensuring a smooth collaboration and project governance with citizen developers that will leverage visual programming capabilities of Bonita.

    Together with this major platform release, Bonitasoft also announces today brand-new “turn-key” services packages that are specifically intended to help speed up project implementation and production upgrades for process automation teams. These packages are built on top of the commercial edition of the platform, which already includes additional capabilities to secure, scale, monitor and continuously improve process automation projects. Bonita Enterprise – on premise or on the Cloud – is the ideal choice to get started rapidly with a first process automation implementation and to upgrade painlessly to the latest version of the solution.

    “We want to boost process automatization adoption through the democratization of DPA, as we did 12 years ago with the democratization of BPM, and at the same time, greatly simplify upgrades and downgrades between the Community and commercial Enterprise editions of Bonita,” says Miguel Valdés Faura, Bonitasoft founder and CEO. “We were founded as a company on a commitment to open source, and we want anyone to be able to build an automation project on the Bonita platform.”

    Bonita’s visual programming capabilities include process modeling using the BPMN2 standard, a graphical editor with guidance and auto-completion, a shared repository, and multiple options to define and enforce business rules, including ones intended to support project governance. Wizards and guidance windows help the business user with some technical configurations, including connectors to Salesforce CRM, UIPath RPA, SAP, multiple databases including Oracle, and more.

    For developers, Bonita offers extensive coding capabilities through archetypes (coding patterns or templates) so they can fully extend the automation project by integrating Bonita with other enterprise information systems using REST and custom connectors, by customizing user interfaces, and more. This separation allows developers to code extensions outside of Bonita so development teams everywhere are free to use any development tools they already use, and are comfortable and efficient with, instead of limiting them only to the tools provided natively with Bonita.

    In addition to the new Software Development Kits that allow developers to create and test extension points, Bonita users can now reuse and extend Bonita Portal in their applications. This end user interface has been split into two unique Bonita applications (User App, Admin App) that can be used as is or customized with the natively provided UIDesigner.

    About Bonitasoft

    Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and modernization of information systems with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with a clear separation between visual programming and coding capabilities. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems and provides deep visibility across all enterprise processes.

  • Bonitasoft Fuses BPM and DevOps with Continuous Integration

    SAN FRANCISCO–(Business Wire)–Bonitasoft recently publicly affirmed its commitment to supporting digital transformation of business with its award-winning application platform.

    Bonitasoft founder Charles Souillard headed Bonitasoft’s 2015 initiative to deliver Bonita BPM 7, to support high demand, short development cycles and associated constraints through a decoupled architecture. In April 2016, he revealed to the innovators atbpmNEXT a fresh look at a set of tools to help DevOps automate and scale their applications via Continuous Integration.

    bpmNEXT is the definitive showcase for the next generation of Business Process Management software. In his address to the innovators, Souillard fused BPM and software industry standards, emphasizing that there is no need for BPM to “reinvent the wheel.” “A business process can be viewed as a complex algorithm with different execution paths,” he pointed out. “This makes it perfectly adapted to automated testing as already practiced by DevOps.”

    One of the “power tools” of DevOps is Continuous Integration, which Souillard demonstrated with an example of an of e-commerce order management application.

    “With the help of cutting edge technologies such as Docker, we can greatly reduce the pain and cost of setting up continuous integration and test platforms,” said Charles Souillard. “We empower DevOps by letting them focus on mission-critical tasks while building and testing confidently over time.”

    Jim Sinur, a former Gartner analyst and now an independent thought leader in applying business process management to innovative and intelligent business operations, has commented on Bonita BPM’s strengths as a digital business platform. “Bonitasoft’s Bonita BPM, as a digital business platform (DBP), brings capabilities that allow for experimentation and incremental development of digital capabilities quickly while leveraging instant feedback on the resulting living digital system,” he said. “The power here is that Bonita BPM empowers incremental approaches because it can be modified quickly even in production and leverages power testing that allows for speedy iterations. This is ideal for digital experimentation and rapid development. As business needs and requirements arise the resulting applications, user interfaces and processes can change with great agility and speed.”

    Vance McCarthy, Editor of Integration Developer News, has noted the role of front-end enablement in escalating digital transformation efforts. “I see Bonitasoft as a pebble in a pond, with this whole innovative cycle happening. Other vendors are making the pivot to BPM-as-app. We’re seeing a whole new wave of developers, and front-end developers, who are now engaged with our BPM-CON conference.”

    About Bonitasoft

    Bonitasoft builds a BPM-based application platform — so it’s easier to create business applications without the cost and rigidity of long, unpredictable custom development cycles. With Bonita BPM 7, developers can build “living” business applications that adapt in real time to changes. As the world’s fastest-growing BPM provider, Bonitasoft has thousands of customers and a community of more than 120,000 members.

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  • Bonitasoft makes business process management more agile with open source

    Bonitasoft makes business process management more agile with open source

    Organizations embrace DevOps for a variety of reasons, but one of the core value propositions is speed. DevOps enables business to build, test, deploy and update applications more quickly than without DevOps. With so many quickly-moving parts, though, organizations also need tools to help keep track of it all like a business process management platform.

    Bonitasoft developed its business process management platform—Bonita BPM 7—to facilitate the creation of engaging, process-based applications. It was also important, however, that the applications be able to adapt in real-time to changing business requirements. The latest release is an open source version that represents a strategic shift for Bonitasoft—a somewhat inevitable evolution to leverage the same practices and principles in designing and maintaining the platform as the platform is intended to manage.

    “We’ve embarked on a new mission to create solutions that empower developers to build applications that support continuous change,” Bonitasoft CEO and co-founder Miguel Valdes Faura said in a press release statement. “To win in today’s competitive climate, you need to be able to adapt to change quickly and continually improve your business processes and the applications that support them. Bonita BPM 7 is the first solution leveraging the power of open source and BPM process-based applications that meets the demands of today’s business requirements.”

    Bonita BPM 7 is built on a popular and widely used open source BPM solution. Developers can create processes in Bonita BPM 7 using the BPMN 2.0 standard, and can seamlessly connect with existing third-party systems such as CRM and ERP systems. Bonita BPM 7 builds on the open source foundation, though, with more extensible frameworks, and a powerful connector builder tool to enable developers to freely code their own graphical components and REST APIs.

    The “secret sauce” of BPM 7 is the way Bonitasoft segregates business logic from the data and user interfaces. The separation makes it easier to introduce changes in real-time. Developers can perform maintenance or push updates to the user interface independently of the business workflow and without taking the application offline.

    According to Bonitasoft, the key benefits of Bonita BPM 7 include the following:

    • Speed – Developers can build applications faster, improving developer productivity
    • Freedom – Developers can easily build what business really wants, and companies can maintain their applications easier and more affordably with live updates
    • Adoption – Development teams can empower their users with more accessible, engaging and usable applications, boosting competitive advantage

    “Bonita BPM 7 represents a real convergence between the world of the ‘BPM app’ and traditional enterprise software,” Valdes Faura said. “It gives developers the freedom to easily code and extend the system whenever they hit the limit with its native features. Plus, the platform is built for change, so developers and business users can apply changes, updates and improvements over time – creating what we call ‘living applications’ that live and breathe and grow along with your business.”

    As developers develop faster and DevOps enables organizations to push and update applications more rapidly the need for tools and platforms to monitor and manage things grows. By leveraging open source software Bonita BPM 7 follows a successful strategy already employed by companies like Github and CloudBees. If you’re looking for a business process management platform you should check out Bonita BPM 7.