Replace Legacy BPMS
If you're struggling with a traditional business process management suite, Camunda can help.
Legacy BPMS doesn't measure up
When starting to automate business processes, many organizations purchase a traditional business process management suite (BPMS). However, these products are not suited to the modern world of process automation, which requires agility, scalability, and openness.
Legacy BPMS, which are also known as iBPMS, rely on closed architectures and a proprietary approach to development, limiting business agility and making it difficult and expensive to make changes. They can't scale dynamically in response to business demand, which means they cause performance issues that negatively affect customers. And they don't provide the tools you need to continuously improve your processes.
Camunda is lightweight and developer-friendly
Camunda vs. Legacy BPMS
| CCamunda | Legacy BPMS | |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end Orchestration | ✓A universal automation layer that orchestrates complex processes across people and systems. Purpose-built to support mission-critical business processes that may run for hours, days, weeks, or even months. | Siloed orchestration limited to BPM-native tasks; poor support for external services and modern tech stacks |
| Business-IT Collaboration | ✓BPMN and DMN as the basis for collaborative design, execution, monitoring, and improvement of processes. Real-time KPIs in customizable dashboards that all stakeholders can use. | Proprietary modeling languages create a divide between business analysts and developers |
| Open Architecture | ✓Robust APIs for headless automation, plus polyglot clients and SDKs for maximum flexibility. A modular design that can run on public, private, or hybrid cloud, and that works with modern technologies such as Kubernetes and Kafka. | Closed, vendor-specific architecture that ties you to one platform and one cloud |
| Developer Friendly | ✓A standards-based approach that puts professional developers' needs first, plus an active community of open-source contributors. Highly customizable design means any use case can be accommodated, including mixed automated/manual workflows. | Proprietary SDKs and lock-in; developers must learn vendor-specific tools instead of reusing skills |
| Cost Effective | ✓Easy to get started, change, and maintain, with no proprietary expertise needed. Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than legacy BPMS thanks to lower day-to-day operational costs. | High per-seat or per-process licensing; expensive professional services required for every change |
“The core advantages of Camunda compared to our previous commercial solution are the increased flexibility, the usage of standard technologies and knowledge, reduced licensing costs and an accelerated software development process.”
Matthias Lüstraeten
Unit Head Middleware and Cloud Computing · Generali
Fidelity | Doculabs – Migrating from Legacy BPM to Camunda
Long-running business processes often require manual work to be combined with automated steps to create a unified workflow, end-to-end. The secret to streamlining internal operations and building better customer experiences starts with knowing how to orchestrate a combination of human and machine-driven processes.
Migration is straightforward, and we're here to help
Replacing a legacy BPMS with Camunda is a straightforward process. Our experienced consulting team is ready to assist you, from the very first architecture discussion and proof of concept, all the way to the migration of your process definitions and process instances.
Camunda can replace:
- Active BPEL, Alfresco Activiti, Appian BPM, Bonitasoft, Flowable
- IBM WPS / BPM / MQ Workflow / Lotus Notes
- JBoss jBPM, Oracle BPM, Pega BPM, Software AG Webmethods