When managers review documents in a .NET product's own UI, the approval belongs inside your app, in an embedded engine such as Workflow Engine NEO, a commercial product by Optimajet. A Camunda 8 cluster beside the app pays off when several teams share one executable BPMN process and will use its Tasklist and Operate screens.

Jevgenije Betin, lead developer of Workflow Engine NEO, reached that verdict in a full comparison . Jevgenije modeled one approval in Camunda 8.9 Self-Managed and in Workflow Engine NEO v22. The comparison reviews both products' documentation as of 24 September 2026. No runtime benchmark was run.

This post is the short version. The full comparison goes through 16 criteria, with diagrams of both models and links to both products' documentation. It compares Camunda Self-Managed because in that setup your team deploys and upgrades both products.…