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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Talend integrates Bonita Open Solution in Talend MDM Enterprise Edition to help businesses manage and automate their data quality, MDM and data stewardship processes

Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today a strategic OEM partnership with BonitaSoft, the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS). As part of this agreement, Talend will integrate Bonita Open Solution, the BonitaSoft BPM solution, as OEM in its Talend MDM Enterprise Edition product.

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Paris, 26 January 2010 – BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, today released a completely redesigned version of open source software for BPM:  Bonita Open Solution 5.0.

“We have been able to totally revamp the existing Bonita software technically, thanks to the funding we raised in 2009.  We’re pleased to be able to offer Bonita Open Solution 5.0 to the Open Source Community today,” said Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO and co-founder of BonitaSoft.  “For this new version, we concentrated on making the solution easy to use and included the capability to connect it to external Information Systems in just a few clicks, while still keeping all the powerful functionality our users want.”

With this release, BonitaSoft aims to make BPM affordable for all businesses, large and small.  This Open Source solution is simple and powerful and can be easily integrated into existing information systems (IS), whatever the level of complexity or criticality of the project.

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Grenoble, 16 Novembre 2009 – eXo Platform, a major provider of open source collaborative software, has just reached an OEM partnership agreement with BonitaSoft, the first provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions.

With the signing of this agreement, eXo Platform and BonitaSoft strengthen their technological collaboration.  BonitaSoft’s business process management solution will be integrated into eXo DMS’s document management module.

Based on Bonita, BonitaSoft’s open source BPM software, the new version of eXo DMS incorporates advanced features for document collaboration and validation.  The addition of Bonita’s BPM capabilities provides eXo Platform customers a powerful and intuitive solution for automating their records management.

The result of four years of successful technical collaboration, the eXo DMS version integrating Bonita was made available to the open source community in 2009.  Through this enhanced partnership, eXo Platform and BonitaSoft now offer their customers dedicated support and services for this integrated solution.

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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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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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