How Bonitasoft supports you to rethink processes with Charles Souillard

New Process Podcast

#049 Let's explore Bonitasoft's approach to revolutionizing process automation.
In this episode, I’m talking to Charles Souillard, CEO and Co-Founder of Bonitasoft. It’s a BPM tool with a focus on flexibility and user engagement in process automation. We describe its core features, including visual process modeling and analytics, designed for a wide range of users.

The discussion also covers how Bonitasoft facilitates user involvement in process optimization and supports the disruption of established processes. Additionally, we look at the trends in the BPM market and what Bonitasoft plans for its future development. Charles also gives some very interesting examples.

Today’s Guest:
Charles Souillard
Charles is CEO and Co-Founder of Bonitasoft. After co-founding Bonitasoft in 2009, he became CTO and 6 years later COO of the company. Since September 2022, he leads Bonitasoft as CEO.
Before co-founding Bonitasoft, Charles was head of the core Bonita software development team within Bull Information Systems. Charles holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Polytech de Grenoble.
Bonitasoft’s mission is to unleash the full potential of development teams to create automated, process-based, sustainable applications that support innovation and competitive advantage for business.
Their product, the Bonita Platform, is primarily used to automate business processes. But as you will learn, you can also use it for process insights.
With an ecosystem of more than 240,000 members and customers in 75+ countries, Bonitasoft provides an open source platform for digital process automation. In 2024, there are 74 employees in France, Spain, and Canada.

You’ll learn:

• What the underlying philosophy of Bonitasoft is
• What the core elements of the tool are
• How the Bonita Platform looks like
• How to proceed to automate processes
• How you can use the platform to analyze your process performance
• How Bonitasoft supports to involve the people into the work on processes
• How Bonitasoft supports to disrupt established processes
• What the future trends of the BPM tool market in general are and what Bonitasoft has on their roadmap for the future
• How to start process automation with Bonitasoft

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