ConnectWise Manage vs Microsoft BizTalk

• Manage's GUI is fantastic and easy to use.
• Makes it very simple to create support tickets and organize them.
• The different boards in Manage are what really make this product great.
• Being able to lay everything out and easily organize to our liking is a huge plus!
• Being customer friendly is another aspect I like.
• The portal is easy to setup and easy for clients to use.
• We use this feature heavily as an MSP.

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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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• The inventory and procurement module could use some work. It is often difficult to navigate through. A cycle count option would be a great addition as well.
• More customization would be great especially in the PO emails.
• The StreamLine IT function, while great, could use some improvement. It is difficult to setup and can at times interfere with other things that we do.
• The invoices are perhaps the ugliest. A straight forward customizable invoice template, not a report that adds 20 steps to the process, would be a huge improvement.

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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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• ConnectWise has contributed to being more accurate with our Engineers time keeping. Being able to track everything to very granular detail has been beneficial.
• Pre-planning and recurring service tickets for companies has been a big benefit as well. Love being able to set it and forget it.
• Having more options on time entries has allowed our Field Engineers to become more granular with the time spent on site. It has allowed us to capture more follow up opportunities to get back in front of the Client to show them.

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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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