I’m really happy to introduce today the preview version of Bonita Open Solution, actually the version 5 of the well known Bonita project in which BonitaSoft is putting all its efforts and dedication last months.

Bonita Open Solution is the open source solution that will change the game in the Business Process Management market with a radically different approach of doing BPM. Bonita Open Solution allows to easily create ready-to-use end user applications based on processes for any kind of organizations and any kind of projects.

With the release of this preview version we want to share with the Bonita users, the community, our partners and the whole BPM industry some of the new features available and also introduce additional features that will be part of the final release of the product.
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Paris, 20 October, 2009 – BonitaSoft, first provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, has won the Open Innovation Award. This award is given to recognize the most innovative open source solution.

BonitaSoft, selected from 20 top nominees, received the prestigious trophy at the closing ceremony of the Open World Forum, awarded by a jury consisting of leading international experts in the world of open source.

This prize rewards 7 years of work in the domain of business process management (BPM) solutions, resulting in 140 000 downloads of the Bonita software and more than 300 contributors to date worldwide. The Open Innovation Award, intended for promising companies, is a tremendous recognition for BonitaSoft. A young company established in 2009 on the foundations of the Bonita open source project, BonitaSoft is ready to shift into high gear and become the undisputed global leader in open source BPM.
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Paris, October 20, 2009 – BonitaSoft, first provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, today delivered the new preview version of its open source business process management (BPM) software: Bonita Open Solution 5.0.

More than a new version, Bonita Open Solution 5.0 is a complete redesign of the Bonita BPM solution from all points of view: technical, ergonomic, and functional. Bonita Open Solution is not a traditional BPM package but a 3 in 1 solution. With Bonita Solution one can design a process, connect to existing information systems, and generate applications for end users.
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At BonitaSoft we want to officially welcome Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder of Talend, to our board of directors. Bertrand has been supporting BonitaSoft since its inception and has provided important feedback and input.

I won’t conceal that I’ve been carefully following BonitaSoft’s progress for some time and have offered both my experience and my connections. It was, therefore, quite natural to agree to join its Board of Directors, said Bertrand

Bertrand and his team has proved to the ETL market that there is a place for an open source provider. Even more, in just three years they managed to create a real competitor to traditional ETL providers. His experience, network and vision of the open source market are really a valuable asset for BonitaSoft.

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Since the announcement of the first round of funding of BonitaSoft, the company is getting a lot of media attention. A really good coverage of this announcement has been provided by specialized french, spanish and english speaking medias.

I wanted to share with you some of the articles published last couple of days on that topic:

Le Journal du Net

Le MagIt

L’informaticien

Boursier

Le Monde Informatique

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Grenoble, 7 October 2009 – BonitaSoft, first provider of open source BPM solutions, and OW2, the international consortium which promotes best technologies for open source middleware, announced today that BonitaSoft has joined the OW2 Consortium.

With this announcement, BonitaSoft reaffirms the commitment to open source and to the OW2 consortium already demonstrated by the company’s founders, who helped add Bonita in 2003 to the open source projects hosted by OW2.

“From the outset, the founders of BonitaSoft have been actively involved in the development of OW2. I have been happy to see the transformation of the consortium in recent years. OW2 is more and more involved in the development of an international community, and is actively developing business relationships between members. So it’s natural for BonitaSoft to join the OW2 Consortium, to continue our development and to develop strategic partnerships with other consortium members such as Talend, eXo Platform, and Bull,” said Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO of BonitaSoft and founder of the Bonita project.

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At the prestigious Open World Forum conference in Paris, BonitaSoft collected the “Open Innovation Award“. The international jury of open source experts awarded last friday the “Open Innovation Awards” to the most promising project in terms of innovation, use of open source technologies, and value creation potential.

We are very proud to be among the winners of the Open Innovation Awards 2009. Receiving such a prestigious award is extremely important for BonitaSoft. Bonita, the company’s flagship product is the pionner of open source BPM solutions and innovative by nature. This award confirms our commitment to innovative open source software.

At BonitaSoft would like to thank the Open World Forum organization for giving us the change to show our hard work and accomplishments to the whole industry.

On behalf of the BonitaSoft team,

Miguel