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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft BizTalk

    Score8 out of 10
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    OpenText Process Automation

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Process Automation is an enterprise-scale Business Process Management (BPM) and Digital Process Automation (DPA) platform designed to orchestrate complex, data-heavy workflows. The solution specializes in Content-Centric Automation, natively integrating with enterprise content management systems to automate processes that require deep document understanding and regulatory compliance.N/A
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    Microsoft BizTalkOpenText Process Automation
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft BizTalkOpenText Process Automation
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Microsoft BizTalkOpenText Process Automation
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and OpenText Process Automation
    Feature
    Microsoft BizTalk Server
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and OpenText Process Automation
    Feature
    Microsoft BizTalk Server
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and OpenText Process Automation
    Feature
    Microsoft BizTalk Server
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and OpenText Process Automation
    Feature
    Microsoft BizTalk Server
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft BizTalkOpenText Process Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft BizTalkOpenText Process Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    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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    OpenText
    Especially for telecom sector, AppWorks handling huge data and transform it easily and very quickly to send it to target systems with in seconds. At a time communicate more than one systems.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • 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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    OpenText
    • Entity model
    • BPM
    • User interface GUI
    • Integrations
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • 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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    OpenText
    • Few Controls which needs improve from user interface
    • Custom controls
    • Data transformation
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    BizTalk will always be required at this hospital.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Microsoft
    I gave a 7 because this product BizTalk does need time and training to get familiar with the usability and features, it is not that easy to use.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    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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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Make sure you have everybody and all depts. On board during testing on test server.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    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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    OpenText
    AppWorks platform is very user friendly which will help us to develop the components quickly and deploy it easily. Flows can be developed quickly compared to others platform where business users can view the flow easily.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • 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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    OpenText
    • Integration management
    • Rapid development
    • SOA
    Incentivized
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