We’re excited to share that Camunda has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q3 2025. In a rapidly evolving automation landscape, we believe this placement is a testament to the strength of Camunda as a leading agentic orchestration platform.
I’m particularly proud of Camunda receiving the highest possible scores in the criteria for Orchestration, Process Standards, Vision, Innovation, and Community. These aspects are at the heart of who we are at Camunda and the value we provide to organizations around the world.
The challenge of operationalizing AI
Agentic AI is opening up new possibilities for business process automation. However, IT and business leaders face a hard truth: 88% of AI pilots stall before they ever reach production because of unclear ROI, weak data foundations, and a lack of in-house expertise.
We’ve all heard stories about the power of AI agents—we’ve shared some ourselves—but the truth is, without orchestration, agents lack the coordination, accountability, and reliability needed for real-world, business-critical processes.
The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q3 2025 notes the challenges that many organizations are having with getting DPA projects up and running, particularly with citizen developers:
“The emergence of AI agents is reshaping DPA platforms. At the same time, the promise of low-code for citizen developers to implement DPA is largely overstated, with most DPA projects deployed by experienced professionals.”
The report then goes on to note:
“DPA apps often include advanced decisioning, endpoint integration, orchestration, and modeling tools to build human access points. As a result, professional developers who embrace these concepts often lead DPA projects.”
In our view, this has always been clear. Of course, we do believe it’s critical to align business and IT (and Camunda can help you do that through visual tools like BPMN and DMN and much more), and there is a growing space for citizen developers to be involved with automation. But when it comes to mission-critical automation that runs your core business processes, tools that are too restrictive, too simple, or lack developer-friendliness just don’t cut it.
In view of that, we were happy to read Forrester’s take on Camunda in the report:
“Forrester’s take. Camunda best suits enterprises with professional developers who want to automate complex processes and require best-in-class orchestration.”
We take pride in handling the processes that matter most for our customers, delivering best-in-class orchestration for all business processes, including the most complex.
The Forrester report mentions several other criteria that I’d like to highlight: orchestration, process standards, and community support.
Best-in-class orchestration
Camunda received the highest possible score in this report in the Orchestration criterion. Our cloud-native workflow engine, Zeebe, earned top marks for orchestration. In our opinion, this is thanks to a distributed architecture that enables performance, resilient, event-driven process execution.
Similarly, our commitment to open architecture and flexibility continues to shine, with our native support for containerized deployments across multiple platforms.
From the report:
“The Zeebe workflow engine has an event-driven architecture and earns top marks for orchestration with a distributed and stateful approach. This provides data persistence and redundancy without relying on a central database.”
Unique approach to agentic orchestration based on BPMN
We also received the highest score possible in the Process Standards criterion. Forrester noted our unique approach to agentic orchestration, enabling enterprises to automate complex, end-to-end processes using a BPMN-based design.
Forrester also cited our strategic focus on professional developers and scalable orchestration rather than low-code shortcuts, which is critical for sophisticated automation at scale.
From the report:
“This focus on endpoint orchestration provides a strong foundation for its excellent vision and innovation, which includes a unique approach to agentic orchestration based on BPMN.”
Camunda’s strong support
We wouldn’t be where we are today if not for the support of our customers and community, both of which were recognized in this Forrester report. Not only did we receive the highest score possible in the Community criterion, but we were recognized as receiving above-average customer feedback.
Customers praised our effective orchestration, strong support, and knowledgeable teams, which for us, reinforces our reputation as a trusted partner for mission-critical process orchestration and automation.
From the report:
“Customers praise Camunda’s strong support, knowledgeable staff, and effective orchestration”
Thank you
I want to extend a heartfelt thanks to the entire Camunda community—our customers, partners, developers, champions, and Camundi—for helping us achieve this exciting result. I’m very pleased by our recognition as a Strong Performer in this report, but the journey is only just beginning. We have big plans for the future of agentic orchestration. Thank you for being a part of our growing community.
Learn more
Enjoy a complimentary copy of the report below or get in touch with us today for a free customized demo if you’d like to learn more about what Camunda can do for you.
Join us for a conversation
We also invite you to join us for our upcoming webinar, AI in the real world—how enterprises orchestrate for outcomes, not just outputs, featuring Forrester on September 9, 2025. Don’t miss this chance to learn about how you can start delivering measurable business outcomes from AI today.
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