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Bonita BPM

Bonita BPM consists of two parts:

• Bonita BPM Studio
• Bonita BPM Platform

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

• whiteboard - for drawing a process flow diagram and defining the detail of steps, transitions, decision points and other process elements
• 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. You can install Bonita BPM Studio on your computer and then create and test processes and process automation. In Bonita BPM Studio, once the process is ready, you can then build it and deploy it on your Bonita production platform.


Bonita BPM Platform
Bonita BPM Platform is an environment suitable for testing processes that is in development. The Bonita BPM Platform contains the following components:

• Tomcat
• Bonita BPM Portal
• Bonita BPM Engine
• h2 database)

Bonita BPM Engine is the process execution engine of Bonita BPM. It is invisible to process users. Bonita BPM Portal 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 deploy and manage processes.
Bonita BPM is provided in four different editions that follow customers needs:

• Community
• Teamwork
• Efficiency
• Performance