Bonita Open Solution

*Bonita Open Solution*
Developer(s)	BonitaSoft
Initial release	October 31, 2003
Stable release	2023.2 (November 16, 2023; 12 months ago) [±]
Preview release	2024.1 Beta (March 11, 2024; 8 months ago) [±]
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multi-lingual
Type	Business process management software
License(s)	GNU General Public License v2
Website	BonitaSoft.com

Bonita Open Solution is free open-source business process management (BPM) software that combines process modeling and a workflow engine in a specially designed user interface.

Product history

The Bonita project started in 2001 at INRIA Labs, a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory, and applied mathematics.^[2]^[3] An ObjectWeb project was started for the software (simply known as "Bonita") on February 14, 2003^[4] and the first beta of the software was publicly released later in the month.^[1] The first stable release of the software (v 1.0) arrived October 31 as a JOnAS release, with a Windows executable version becoming available November 20.^[1]

Steady work continued on the project, with a version 2.0 arriving on June 19, 2006 and version 4.0 on October 1, 2008 (released as Nova Bonita).^[1] In June 2009, several of the original developers of the software began an initiative to develop Bonita outside of the confines of ObjectWeb, starting the business BonitaSoft and raising over €2 million in venture capital.^[2] On October 23, 2009, information was released that with the upcoming version 5.0 release the name of the product would change to "Bonita Open Solution" (BOS)^[5], a name that has remained since.

Features

Features of the open-source version of Bonita Open Solution include^[6]:

process modeling and versioning
simulation support
support for import, export, and external connections
decision tables
data management editor
debugger
business application generation
user management

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements for Bonita Open Solution include:

OpenJDK JDK 6 or greater, or Sun Java JDK 6.0 or greater

Refer to the documentation for more information.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Several demo videos of Bonita Open Solution can be found on YouTube.
Over 70 different screenshots of Bonita Open Solution can be found on Softpedia.

Training resources

Click2eLearn

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Click2eLearn is a privately owned company offering high-quality and low-cost web-based training and tutorials for primarily open-source software platforms. The company offers tutorials on the open-source business process management application Bonita Open Solution. Training plans begin at $33 per month.

Entities using Bonita Open Solution

Entities utilizing Bonita Open Solution include^[7]:

Accenture, APEC, Atmel, Avisor, B-process, Bouygues, Caris, ComOps, Comviva, Conseil Général de Gironde, DirecTV, EFG Bank, Hotela, Imbera Servicios, Intesa Sanpaolo, Konica Minolta, La Redoute, Neuros, Old Dominion University, Orange, Pharmagest, Société Générale, Solvay, Sonaca, Sopra Group, Teach for America, The University of Sydney, Trane SAS, Treelogic, Vetoquinol, VIS Insurance Ltd, Xerox