When I heard what Camunda, the scrappy open-source vendor of business process management software (BPMS), was up to, I had to head to its hometown of Berlin to see for myself.
On the surface, Camunda appears to be bucking all the major trends in today’s BPMS world. Instead of recasting its platform as low-code, Camunda unabashedly serves Java developers, requiring hands-on Java skills to use its platform effectively.
Camunda also supports and leverages the now-aging Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard—a standard that I have recently taken issue with for being overly verbose and waterfall-centric.
At its annual CamundaCon conference last week, several hundred customers and other fans were all too happy to sing Camunda’s praises, so to be sure, the company is on to something. Here’s my analysis.
Read the entire article at https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/can-open-source-camunda-disrupt-bpms-market.
Appian, BonitaSoft, and IBM are Intellyx customers. None of the other vendors mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Camunda covered my expenses at CamundaCon, a standard industry practice.
