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Bonita BPM overview

Bonita BPM 6.2 Bonita BPM 6.1 Bonita BPM 6.0
.Community Teamwork Efficiency Performance

Bonita BPM consists of two parts: Bonita BPM Studio and Bonita BPM Platform.

Bonita BPM Studio

Bonita BPM Studio is a graphical environment for creating processes. It contains two major
design tools:

the whiteboard, for drawing a process flow diagram and defining the detail of steps,
transitions, decision points and other process elements
the form builder, which is used to create forms used in process web applications

Bonita BPM Studio is the process development tool for the Business Analyst and Application
Developer.

This video [1] is a tour Bonita BPM Studio.

You can install Bonita BPM Studio [2] on your computer, then create and test processes.
Bonita BPM Studio contains a Bonita BPM Platform [3] (Tomcat, Bonita BPM Portal, Bonita
BPM Engine, and an h2 database), suitable for testing a process that is in development.

In Bonita BPM Studio, once the process is ready, you can then build [4] it and deploy it on your
Bonita production platform.

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Bonita BPM Platform

Bonita BPM Engine is the process execution engine of Bonita BPM. It is invisible to process
users.

Bonita BPM Portal [6] is the part of Bonita BPM that is visible to process users, who use it to
view tasks and take actions. Bonita BPM Portal is also the tool used by the process
administrator to install, deploy and manage processes [7].

You can install Bonita BPM Platform [8] using one of the options described on this page.

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Editions
Bonita BPM is provided in four different editions: Community, Teamwork, Efficiency,
Performance.

See comparison here [9].

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Links:
[1] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/sites/docs.bonitasoft.com/files/videos-6_0/bonita_studio_tour.mp4
[2] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/installing-bonita-bpm-overview#bonitastudio
[3] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/bonita-bpm-overview#bonitaplatform
[4] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/build-process-deployment
[5] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/bonita-bpm-overview#top
[6] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/portal-interface-0
[7] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/installing-bonita-bpm-overview
[8] http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/installing-bonita-bpm-overview#bonitaplatform
[9] http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/product-comparison