Breakout vs Microsoft BizTalk

Likelihood to Recommend

Breakout is great for streamlining processes keeping track of key things and also helps in setting accountability with the assign and collaborate feature.

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Amit Singh

Co-Founder

DigitalFlowMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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BizTalk is well suited as middleware. Where you wish to translate an input file into an output file and send it to some endpoint. In our case, we used it to convert and send files to SAP. In many ways, it very flexible, and you can do almost anything you want with it. In many ways, it's a better solution than your SAP XI or PI as middleware, since it's much less expensive, and allows you do interface with non-SAP systems.

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Professional in Information Technology

Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Breakout

Microsoft BizTalk

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

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Microsoft BizTalk

Process designer

Process simulation

Business rules engine

SOA support

Process player

Form builder

Model execution

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Microsoft BizTalk

Social collaboration tools

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Microsoft BizTalk

Content management

Pros

Simple and easy to use interface
Provides third party integrations
Good support
Brings in accountability
Great for tracking

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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It is very user friendly. Users can change rules during run time and change workflow.
Huge capacity for queueing messages. It supports all types of adapters like Oracle, Salesforce, SMTP, FTP, etc. Also users can built custom adaptors.
If users want to dynamically deploy their solution without any downtime, this is a perfect solution. BizTalk will be a good fit, especially for public-facing websites.
Well-proven in the market. I used it when developing a website for Virgin Trains, catering more than 800K user requests per day.
Helps in load balancing.

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Viral Patel

Senior Software Engineer

IntraLinksComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Would be great they could come up with iOS and android versions as well

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Amit Singh

Co-Founder

DigitalFlowMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Microsoft BizTalk is over engineered for some situtations
Microsoft BizTalk can be frustrating to use as it forces you to use the GUI as opposed to code
Microsoft BizTalk is very resource intensive to create integrations

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Kyle Kochtan

Technical Lead

Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Microsoft BizTalk 5.0

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Microsoft BizTalk is not an intuitive product. It requires many hours of looking through the settings to achieve what you need. Using 3rd party DLLs is a nightmare as you are forced to register them in the GAC of the server and this process is quite cumbersome just to use a DLL.

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Kyle Kochtan

Technical Lead

Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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Microsoft BizTalk 9.0

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BizTalk Server has been supported for more than 15 years. It is well proven in the market. Microsoft has provided excellent support with technical issues.

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Viral Patel

Senior Software Engineer

IntraLinksComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Our organization had evaluated it for sometime, but it was on the higher side for the budget we had. Many of our departments used it for a while, even after the initial demo session many users from different departments had raised IT assistance requests. Keeping in mind these factors at hand we started exploring alternatives.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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BizTalk was selected here mainly because it is easy to integrate to a .NET application (most of them are Web Service, WCF SOAP, WCF REST and Web API) and many backend databases are Microsoft SQL Server. Another benefit is that the monitoring job is easy to set up and centralize with other .NET application monitoring jobs.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Breakout is pretty affordable, the ROI has been great for us

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Amit Singh

Co-Founder

DigitalFlowMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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A positive impact has been the quicker turnaround time of a part request and that part showing up in SAP using Biztalk as middleware.
A somewhat negative impact has been the somewhat insufficient error logging/message capture settings that Biztalk provide. This has caused occasional delays when attempted to create parts for the business.
A somewhat negative impact has been the need to have a specialized developer who understands Biztalk to troubleshoot issues with the Biztalk and SAP interaction when creating parts, and when adding new fields to the parts.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Process designer

Process simulation

Business rules engine

SOA support

Process player

Form builder

Model execution

Social collaboration tools

Content management

Pros

Breakout

Microsoft BizTalk

Cons

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Microsoft BizTalk

Usability

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Microsoft BizTalk

Support Rating

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Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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Screenshots

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Microsoft BizTalk

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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