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Is Biztalk for Us?
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| We are a small company with 12 warehouses and approximately 200 computers. I
have seen references to BizTalk being a component to aid in work flow
applications.
When the word "work flow" is used do they mean, as an example, expense
report going from employee to supervisor to AP, or does this only apply to a
B2B work flow process?
We do work with many venders but none that are up to this B2B or portal stuff.
With this in mind would there be and what, advantages of implementing a
BizTalk server in a small/medium size company?
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| s.ocallaghan 2005-08-24, 8:51 pm |
| Hi Vidro,
Thanks for your message.
BizTalk can be used to develop very powerful workflow based solutions,
to aggregate and integrate the data and processes that typically take
place within a typical organisation. The Expense Report example
could be a typical scenario of a document based process that requires
many stages of approval, all of which BizTalk is more than happy to
deal with. You might want to consider creating forms and documents
in Microsoft Infopath for use in BizTalk related projects.
BizTalk also reigns clearly in the B2B integration space.
If you wish to chat in greater detail about this, skype me
callto://shaunocallaghan
or visit my blog. http://exaura.org/shaun
> vidrowrote:
We are a small company with 12 warehouses and approximately 200
computers. I
> have seen references to BizTalk being a component to aid in work
flow
> applications.
> When the word "work flow" is used do they mean, as an example,
expense
> report going from employee to supervisor to AP, or does this only
apply to a
> B2B work flow process?
>
> We do work with many venders but none that are up to this B2B or
portal stuff.
> With this in mind would there be and what, advantages of
implementing a
> BizTalk server in a small/medium size company?
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| Stephen W. Thomas 2005-08-24, 8:51 pm |
| Hello.
I see the biggest advantage to you is to get ahead of the game now while the
barriers of entry are smaller then if you built out a lot of custom code.
Once you have a solid foundation set up with Biztalk (maybe even a SOA
approach with Orchestrations exposed as web services) you have the ability to
quickly add trading partners that are B2B ready or quickly response to new
systems within your organization (example say you bought another warehouse
using a different Warehouse Management software package). Or even be the
leader in getting your trading partners B2B ready to reduce operating costs
of manually entry.
Workflow can be anything you want it to be. It can be as simple as a few
shapes that just call other web services or .net components.
What Biztalk really brings to the table in these scenarios is built in
tracking and real-time data aggregation through BAM. Also, 2006 will
introduce new BAM features.
Microsoft has smaller, limited versions of Biztalk available that might work
for you. You will still need a SQL Server though but if I remember correctly
the lowest version runs around $1500.
Hope this helps.
Stephen W. Thomas
http://www.biztalkgurus.com
"vidro" wrote:
> We are a small company with 12 warehouses and approximately 200 computers. I
> have seen references to BizTalk being a component to aid in work flow
> applications.
> When the word "work flow" is used do they mean, as an example, expense
> report going from employee to supervisor to AP, or does this only apply to a
> B2B work flow process?
>
> We do work with many venders but none that are up to this B2B or portal stuff.
> With this in mind would there be and what, advantages of implementing a
> BizTalk server in a small/medium size company?
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Also consider training. BizTalk takes time to learn, especially with
someone that has no .NET experience.
Its a powerful infrastructure once you are able to leverage it.
BA
"vidro" <vidro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44713F73-DE6E-40E7-ADC5-892262E8C166@microsoft.com...
> We are a small company with 12 warehouses and approximately 200 computers.
I
> have seen references to BizTalk being a component to aid in work flow
> applications.
> When the word "work flow" is used do they mean, as an example, expense
> report going from employee to supervisor to AP, or does this only apply to
a
> B2B work flow process?
>
> We do work with many venders but none that are up to this B2B or portal
stuff.
> With this in mind would there be and what, advantages of implementing a
> BizTalk server in a small/medium size company?
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