Bonita BPM

	Bonita Open Solution
Developer:	http://www.bonitasoft.com
Use:	BPM Solution
License:	Engine: LGPL, Studio/Web: GPL
Website:	http://www.bonitasoft.com

Bonita Open Solution is an open-source BPM suite, created in 2001.

It was started in French National Institute for Research in Computer Science, and then had incubated several years inside of the French computer science company Bull. Since 2009, Current development of Bonita is supported by a company dedicated to this activity: BonitaSoft.

Features

Bonita is made of 3 major components :

Bonita Studio: it allows use to modify graphically his business processes following the BPMN standard. He can also connect his processes to other pieces of his System of Information (such as messaging, ERP, GED, databases...) in order to generate an autonomous business application accessible as a web form. Bonita Studio also allows to design graphically the forms that will be shown to the end user in order to interact with the process. Moreover, the Studio allows the user to get started with processes designed with other standards and technologies such as XPDL or jBPM. It relies on Eclipse.
Bonita BPM Engine: The BPM engine is a JAVA API that allows you to interact programmatically with your processes.It is available under LGPL. It relies on Hibernate
Bonita User Expreience: is a portal that allows each end-user to manage in a webmail-like interface all the tasks he is implied in. The portal also allow the owner of a process to administrate and get reports about his process. It relies on GWT.

Bonita Open Solution is Open Source and can be downloaded under GPL.

History

2001 : First version of Bonita, at INRIA
2008 : Bonita 4, at Bull
June 2009 : Creation of BonitaSoft, the company supporting Bonita Open Solution.
September 2009 : BonitaSoft raises 3 millions dollers ^[1]
January 2010 : Release of Bonita Open Solution, 5th version de Bonita.