Bonitasoft claims to be the provider of the most-downloaded business process management (BPM) solution in the world. Now it is taking its capabilities one step further with the announcement its demo version of a fully hosted, cloud-enabled implementation of Bonita BPM Community Edition, known as BonitaCloudαlpha.
The Community Edition is the open source version of the company’s BPM software, and it sees the release of BonitaCloudαlpha as the latest example of its efforts to democratise BPM technology. The goal is to allow process owners at all levels in an organisation to take greater control over improving operational performance.
With this first release of the BonitaCloud platform, Bonita BPM developers who have relied on on-premise deployments now have the option of testing and running process-driven business applications in the cloud. The BonitaCloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will ultimately give developers more flexibility to build and run their applications quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively in any environment they choose. For many Bonita BPM users, BonitaCloudαlpha is the first step toward a fully cloud-deployed set of business processes.
“Bonitasoft’s primary goal is to democratise BPM – to make it available to more organisations and more users within multiple formats,” said Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO and co-founder of Bonitasoft. “The introduction of the alpha version of BonitaCloud advances this concept, providing developers worldwide the option of extending their process applications to the cloud.”
The company also sees the move as reaffirming its ongoing commitment to open source. Bonitasoft engineers – who have spent the past six months setting up the cloud infrastructure and preparing BonitaCloudαlpha – are already on call for any needed technical support.
“The best input and feedback to improve its high-quality BPM suite has come from real users,” said Valdes Faura. “We look forward to leveraging that feedback to make BonitaCloud the best cloud-enabled process-building platform on the market.”
The release of BonitaCloudαlpha follows Bonitasoft’s recent introduction of Bonita BPM 6.3, the latest innovation in its flagship BPM product suite, giving IT professionals a more advanced set of tools to quickly develop and integrate process-driven business applications and new flexibility for end-user interfaces.
