Bonita is an open-source business process management and low-code development platform created in 2001. Bonita technology was developed originally in 2001 by Miguel Valdés Faura, at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, and subsequently transferred to Groupe Bull. In 2009, the Director of the BPM division, Miguel Valdes Faura, founded Bonitasoft, which is a French open-source software vendor. The company Bonitasoft is a French open-source software vendor, founded in 2009 by Miguel Valdes Faura (currently CEO) and Charles Souillard (currently COO). Its flagship process automation platform for applications and BPM projects is Bonita, which has been extended with two integratable technology modules (Bonita Continuous Delivery for DevOps, and Bonita Intelligent Continuous Improvement for process prediction using AI) and is now also available as a Bonita Cloud edition, launched in 2019. Bonitasoft originally raised more than 28 million euros dedicated to the creation of its business (in 2009 4.5 million euros from Ventech and Auriga, in 2011, 8 million from Serena Capital and in 2013, 10 million from its investment funds and BPI, then 5 million in 2014 from the same investors). In 2018 Bonitasoft had an overall new business growth of 45%, and a customer renewal rate of 93%. The company has been profitable since 2017. Features The Bonita application platform has several major components: Bonita Studio It allows the user to graphically modify business processes using parts of the BPMN standard. The user can also connect processes to other pieces of the information system (such as messaging, enterprise resource planning, enterprise content management, and databases) in order to generate an autonomous business application accessible via web portals, web forms, and mobile devices. Bonita Studio also allows the user to start with processes designed with other standards and technologies such as XPDL or jBPM. It is based on Eclipse. Bonita BPM Engine The BPM process engine is a Java application that executes process definitions created with Bonita Studio. REST and Bonita Engine APIs allow the user to interact programmatically with other processes, platforms, and information systems. It is available under LGPL. Bonita Portal This is an out-of-the-box portal that allows end-users to manage the tasks in which they are involved. The Bonita portal also allows the owner of a process to administer and to get reports about processes. It is based on AngularJS. Bonita UI Designer Provides out-of-the-box features, based on AngularJS and Bootstrap, and extension