Bonitasoft is a French open source software vendor, founded in 2009 by Miguel Valdes Faura and Charles Souillard. Its flagship process automation platform for applications and BPM projects is Bonita, which has been extended with two integratable technology modules and is now also available as a Bonita Cloud edition, launched in 2019. Bonitasoft originally raised more than 28 millions euros dedicated to the creation of its business. 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 standard. The user can also connect processes to other pieces of the information system 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. It is based on Eclipse. ;Bonita BPM Engine: The BPM process engine is a Java 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. ;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. ;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 that permits automatic provisioning with Amazon AWS cloud technology. Bonita BPM is open-source and can be downloaded under GPL.
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
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 but not clustering on the Bonitasoft Open Source.
June 5, 2013: Bonita BPM 6.0 was released, with a complete rewrite of the Engine and the Portal.
