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Paris, June 10, 2010 BonitaSoft, leading provider of open source BPM solutions, is celebrating its first birthday. Created just last year, the French start-up experienced a meteoric rise and is one of a select group of successful open source vendors. BonitaSoft’s business process management solution, Bonita Open Solution, has already been deployed in over 200 countries.
“Twelve months ago, we promised the democratization of BPM and we are keeping our promise. In one year, we have seen the number of downloads double – to 300,000, including 100,000 in just the last four months. Our community of contributors has tripled, exceeding a thousand, and more than 20 integration partners have joined us. With all of this, we are covering five continents today,” said Miguel Valdès Faura, CEO and co-founder of BonitaSoft.
BonitaSoft also counts 60,000 unique visitors each month to its Web site, more than 1,000 messages exchanged each month in the community forums, an online TV channel with more than 30,000 views, and technology partnerships with some of the biggest names in Open Source enterprise software: Talend, JasperSoft, and eXo Platform.
The company is also enjoying commercial success. Since the release of Bonita Open Solution in January 2010, dozens of new clients on three continents and eight countries (France, Spain, the United States, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and Malaysia) have put their trust in BonitaSoft.
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I’m just back to France after spending 2 fruitful weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. During those 2 weeks I met with more than 30 CEO’s and top executives of major open source companies including RedHat, SpringSource, OpenBravo, Canonical, Acquia, Ingres, JasperSoft, SugarCRM, Talend, eXo Platform, PushToTest, Hippo, SauceLabs, Extentech, AlienVault and GroundWork. I had a great time discussing open source interoperability, cloud computing, and BPM of course.
While initially this trip was supposed to be just one week, the famous volcano ash cloud helped me make the decision to stay a bit longer 
My trip started with the SugarCRM conference. I have to say that Larry Augustin and his team did a great job offering an impressive panel of speakers this year (and not only because I was part of it .) The main BonitaSoft partners were there – Talend, eXo Platform and JasperSoft – so we took the opportunity to discuss our product integration and joint activities (a couple of great things are coming there). The nice thing about those major events is that customers, community members and users also attend so it’s a perfect place to introduce new features and to get good feedback.
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With the release of Bonita Open Solution 5.x, BonitaSoft is bringing a graphical and intuitive BPM software to everybody. Through Bonita Open Solution you are now able to deal graphically with the entire life cycle of processes as only the most advanced proprietary solutions were providing so far.
At the same time, we want keep innovation high and to bring to any kind of end user his flavour of BPM. That includes Java developers so I would like in this post to focus on you!
While in Bonita Open Solution you can build your BPM based application by just leveraging the Bonita Studio, there are some situations in which you are looking for a native interaction between your Java based applications and frameworks and a BPM engine. Even more, you probably also mind about the way in which the BPM engine is going to be deployed together with your Java application, meaning embedded or centralized deployments.
Are you a Java developer? If yes, this post is for you! Charles Souillard, CTO of BonitaSoft, has just published a trilogy of articles in which he describes the essence of Bonita BPM Engine:
Enjoy!
Miguel
We are pleased to announce Bonita Open Solution 5.1. With this intermediate release of Bonita Open Solution, we are happy to take another step towards greater connectivity and usability.
New features in this version include:
- BPMN files can now be imported in Bonita Studio
- Contributed connectors can be downloaded and installed directly from Bonita Studio (see video below) and a Test Connector wizard now helps you test your connectors
- Form customization has also been made easier thanks to a copy/past feature and the possibility to add navigation in forms (next|previous)
- Bonita User Experience has also benefited from the care of our R&D team: Users can now select their own language settings, add comments on steps or pick a user from the list when assigning a task.
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Theo Priestley from BPM Redux, one of the trend-setting blog in the BPM field, recently reviewed Bonita Open Solution. I could have posted here Theo’s (very) positive words describing the nice features that can be found in Bonita Open Solution, like easy connectivity to existing systems or straightforward web form edition, but this is not my point today.
What really stroke me when I read Theo’s post is how he brightly identified what is for me Bonita’s key asset facing the competition: the BonitaSoft Open Source Community. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a month since the release of Bonita Open Solution 5. A month in which YOU (Bonita community, users and partners) have been downloading, using, providing feedback about and making contributions for this version.
Now we’d like to share some interesting figures:
Bonita Open Solution 5 has been downloaded more than 25,000 times from 200 countries. This is an amazing statistic for a BPM solution (and only one month after its release).
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A couple of days ago IBM announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi. In the press release covering this announcement, Rod Favaron, CEO of Lombardi, said:
Our shared vision has been to deliver technology that helps companies improve their effectiveness by better managing the processes that keep their businesses running. Becoming part of the IBM family will take this vision to a higher level and enable us to explore new opportunities together in product development, integration and go-to-market strategies.
Well, everybody knows both IBM and Lombardi business models, actually is the same: selling proprietary software at premium prices to customers! on that particular point companies merging should be easy
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