Camunda recognized as “Best-in-Class Orchestration” in Forrester’s 2025 DPA Report

Aug 25, 2025 | Automation, Camunda, NTConsult

We’re thrilled to share that Camunda, our official partner for process orchestration and automation, has once again been recognized for its leadership in this area.  

In the Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q3 2025, Camunda earned the title of Strong Performer, delivering the highest possible scores in key criteria like orchestration, process standards, vision, innovation, and community.  

What Sets Camunda Apart 

Camunda shines as a best-in-class orchestration platform, highlighting its cloud-native Zeebe engine, which Forrester lauded for its distributed, stateful architecture, providing high performance, resilience, and real-time event-driven process execution.  

The platform’s full support for standards such as BPMN, DMN, and MCP ensuring transparency, auditability, and strategic flexibility. This ensures AI agents and workflows remain governable, maintainable, and adaptable.  

Forrester’s report puts it succinctly: 

Camunda best suits enterprises with professional developers who want to automate complex processes and require best-in-class orchestration.”  

Agility with Governance 

For companies facing heightened regulatory demands and sharp customer expectations, this recognition carries practical significance: 

  • Secure, compliant orchestration: Camunda models workflows with full traceability and version control, ideal for audit-heavy environments. 
  • Future-ready architecture: The Zeebe engine scales seamlessly across multiple geographies and spikes in transactional volume. 
  • Strategic agility: Built-in standards help align business processes with evolving security, governance, and operational policies. 

In short, Camunda provides the infrastructure for mission-critical orchestration, enabling organizations to deliver value without compromising control or compliance. 

What Sets Camunda Apart in the Forrester Evaluation 

In this year’s evaluation, Camunda earned the highest possible scores in key categories that directly impact enterprise outcomes: 

Orchestration 

Camunda was recognized for its robust ability to orchestrate across modern and legacy systems, including APIs, microservices, RPA bots, and AI components, offering flexibility without compromising control. 

Process Standards 

Camunda received top marks for its standards-based approach, particularly its native support for BPMN, DMN, and MCP. This ensures that complex business logic remains understandable, maintainable, and executable at scale. 

Vision 

Forrester highlighted Camunda’s clarity of vision and rapid product evolution as major differentiators.  

Innovation 

Camunda has made deliberate investments in key innovations such as agentic AI orchestration, enabling companies to coordinate not just systems and workflows, but also autonomous agents. 

Community 

A thriving global community was also listed among Camunda’s strongest assets. With a large, active base of developers and experts contributing to the platform’s evolution, customers benefit from shared knowledge and rapid adoption of new practices. 

Designed for High-Performance, Cloud-Native Environments 

Camunda is also highlighted for its modern technical architecture, purpose-built for mission-critical digital operations: 

Zeebe: a distributed and stateful engine 

Camunda’s Zeebe engine was called out by Forrester for its ability to process high-throughput workloads with reliability and traceability, essential for businesses operating in regulated or latency-sensitive environments. 

Elastic scalability with enterprise resilience 

Designed to run natively in cloud and containerized environments (like Kubernetes), Camunda helps teams orchestrate thousands of processes concurrently while maintaining full visibility and control. 

Trustworthy execution in real time 

This architecture supports real-time decision-making with deterministic outcomes, reducing risk and ensuring that automated processes remain compliant and aligned with business goals. 

NTConsult’s Camunda Expertise in Action 

As a long-standing Camunda Platinum Partner and recognized leader in digital transformation, NTConsult delivers strategic impact and business value, not just implementation. 

From first MVP to full governance, NTConsult covers every critical stage of your orchestration journey. We assess, map, and unlock your path to scalable automation with Camunda

START & DISCOVER
You can’t automate what you don’t understand. A 2-day workshop to identify orchestration opportunities and deliver a working MVP aligned with a real business process.
Outcome: clarity. Strategic alignment. A real automated process. 
KICKSTART & DELIVERY 
No pipelines. No standards. No scale. A complete Camunda setup: environments, CI/CD, DevSecOps, governance and technical architecture from Day 1.
Outcome: launch with confidence. A scalable foundation for all future flows. 
GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
Build once. Defend forever. Design flows with full traceability, versioning, and compliance baked in from the first deployment.
Outcome: audit-ready automation. Clear history. Zero surprises under pressure. 
LEGACY & MODERNIZATION
Don’t rewrite what still works. Orchestrate it. Bridge legacy systems with modern architecture. Safely migrate from Camunda 7 to 8 without disruption.
Outcome: modernization without code freezes, regressions or risky overhauls. 
SCALE & OPTIMIZE 
Speed means nothing if your flow breaks at scale. Architectural and process tuning to handle real-world loads, spikes and bottlenecks.
Outcome: high-performance orchestration. Less rework. More throughput. 
CONTINUOUS SUPPORT & EVOLUTION 
Automation doesn’t pause. Neither do we.  Dedicated squads and SLA-based support (8×5, 10×6, 24×7) for incident response, evolution and platform continuity.
Outcome: uptime. Agility. A Camunda setup that grows with your business. 
COE & ENABLEMENT 
Orchestration at scale demands orchestration of people. Build your Center of Excellence or let NTConsult operate it for you. Roles, standards, governance, delivery.
Outcome: consistent delivery. Knowledge retention. Strategic control across teams. 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 

1. Why does Camunda’s recognition in the Forrester Wave matter for enterprises considering or already using the platform?

Forrester’s recognition validates Camunda as a robust, future-ready orchestration platform for complex, mission-critical environments. It provides third-party assurance that the platform delivers real value across performance, compliance, and scalability, helping decision-makers invest with greater confidence.

2. What sets Camunda apart from other automation platforms evaluated by Forrester?

Among its many features, Camunda stands out with its Zeebe engine, a distributed, stateful, cloud-native core designed for high-throughput workloads. Combined with native support for open standards like BPMN and DMN, and growing capabilities in agentic AI orchestration, Camunda offers flexibility without compromising control.

3. What role does NTConsult play in the Camunda ecosystem?

As a Camunda Platinum Partner with extensive experience in regulated, high-scale environments, NTConsult supports the full orchestration journey. From discovery and MVPs to governance, migration, scaling, and long-term support, we help clients translate Camunda’s power into strategic, measurable results.

4. My company is still on Camunda 7. Is migrating to Camunda 8 worth it?

Yes, especially if your operations require scalability, modern architecture, or AI-readiness. Camunda 8 introduces event-driven orchestration, cloud-native deployment, and real-time execution. NTConsult offers safe, structured migration paths from Camunda 7 to 8, minimizing risk and disruption.

5. Is Camunda a good fit for regulated industries or audit-heavy environments?

Absolutely. Camunda’s support for BPMN/DMN, combined with traceability, version control, and process visibility, makes it ideal for financial services, telecom, healthcare, and other regulated sectors. It helps enterprises build audit-ready workflows from the ground up.

6. Can Camunda orchestrate AI agents and advanced automations?

Yes. Camunda is already being used to coordinate autonomous agents, event-driven flows, and AI-based decision points. It offers a strong foundation for agentic AI orchestration, where workflows are not just automated, but adaptive, contextual, and aligned with enterprise governance.

7. What’s the best way to start using Camunda strategically?

NTConsult offers an approach designed to identify orchestration opportunities and deliver a working MVP aligned with real business goals. It’s a fast, structured way to build clarity, validate value, and create a strong foundation for scalable automation.

Looking Ahead 

Camunda’s position in the 2025 Forrester Wave reflects not just enduring technology leadership, but a trajectory of innovation and reliability. 

Next steps: 

Read the full Forrester Wave DPA report here

Reach out and let’s explore how NTConsult and Camunda can transform your most critical processes with clarity and scale, unlocking real business value at scale

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