Appian vs Microsoft BizTalk

• Repeatable process. Once implemented in Appian, you have an automated process that will always work in the same way. No more dependencies on people remembering what needs to be done or how to do it.
• Great integration with other applications. Appian allows you to integrate with many other applications to provide a seamless process flow.
• Reporting capability. Appian has the ability to report on information from any connected system to provide real-time data. Very nice graphical and textual reports can be created.
• Sites. The ability to create a place for a user to be able to perform their required job without having to see all of the other applications, reports and records. This allows a very focused approach for a user to interact with the system.

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• BizTalk uses Microsoft Visual Studio as the IDE (integrated development environment) tool, and it's very easy to use.
• The orchestration engine of BizTalk addresses resource issue very well for long-running business processes by dehydrating and rehydrating orchestration instances.
• BizTalk is very easy to integrate if the development is mainly on the Microsoft software family.

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• Even if Appian is working a lot on it, it should improve the low-coding features.
• Improvement of the form design not using sail.
• Foster the connection for different customers, all of them using Appian. Having a process across companies and not only offices could be great.

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• BizTalk mainly used in a publish-subscribe pattern, it has toolkits from ESB (Enterprise Services Bus), but it's not as good as other native ESB systems.
• BizTalk didn't provide many native adapters and it needs to be made by a developer or bought from a third party, like Amazon S3 adapter or SMS adapter.
• BizTalk only supports JSON in the latest version 2013 R2, and it needs to transform JSON to XML for internal mail box use and then transform from XML back to JSON.

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• Appian is an accelerator for us. We don't need to build in the business process management in house.

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• If the Microsoft SQL Server database is used as well as other Microsoft applications, then BizTalk will be a good tool to add.
• Many .NET developers are available in the market if there is a requirement to use it to develop a BizTalk Server rapidly.
• If the organization is focused on open source tools or Java family, BizTalk may be not a good choice.

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