Bonita Open Solution
Bonita Open Solution is an open-source BPM and Workflow 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, the development of Bonita is supported by a company dedicated to this activity: BonitaSoft.
Features
Bonita is made of 3 major components :
- Bonita Studio: allows the user to graphically modify business processes following the BPMN standard. The user can also connect processes to other pieces of the Information System (such as messaging, ERP, ECM, databases...) in order to generate an autonomous business application accessible as a web form. Bonita Studio also allows the user 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 Experience: is a portal that allows each end-user to manage in a webmail-like interface all the tasks in which he or she is involved. The portal also allow the owner of a process to administrate and get reports about processes. It relies on GWT.
Bonita Open Solution is Open Source and can be downloaded under GPL.
Applications
Bonita can be applied for various projects requiring complex workflows like Supply Chain Management, e-Government [1] etc.
What it is Used For
Bonita Open solution can be used for creating high-tech workflows and spreadsheets. Basically like an advance Excel and/or Apple Automator.
History and Releases
- 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 [2]
- January 2010: Release of Bonita Open Solution, 5th version de Bonita.
- June 2010: Release of Bonita Open Solution 5.2 [3]
- October 2010: Lanzamiento de Bonita 5.2.4 (installer size, 219 MB; installed folder size, 331 MB)
- November 2010: Launched Bonita Open Solution 5.3[4][5]
- 22-23 December, 2010: Bonita Open Solution 5.3.2 is released. BonitaSoft archieves 100 pay clients of its software BOS [6]
- January 27, 2011, Bonita Open Solution 5.4 was released. [7], which offers key feature upgrades to achieve greater usability. Bonita Open Solution was downloaded more than half million times. [8]
- May 27, 2011, Bonita Open Solution 5.5 was released. [9], which builds critical new features into BonitaSoft’s core offering that make developing, testing and managing BPM applications faster and easier.
See also
References
- ^ (English) EIN: Canary Islands Government Applies Bonita Open Solution for e-Government, 04/10/2010
- ^ (French) Le monde informatique, 18/09/2009
- ^ (English) BonitaSoft's Bonita Open Solution 5.2: An Essential Toolkit for BPM, 10/08/2009
- ^ (Spanish) Blog of the BOS Community - What's new in BOS 5.3, 16-11-2010
- ^ (Spanish) Finanzas.com/EuropaPress - BonitaSoft, BPM de código abierto supera medio millón de descargas, 16-11-2010
- ^ (Spanish) Comunicado a EP - BonitaSoft supera los 100 clientes de su software de código abierto de gestión de procesos de negocio (BPM), 23-12-2010
- ^ (English)releases bonita open solution 5.4, 03-02-2011
- ^ (English)a million and counting, 16-11-2010
- ^ (English)releases bonita open solution 5.5, 27-05-2011