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    Microsoft BizTalk

    Score8 out of 10
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    Planhat

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/APlanhat is a post-sale customer platform designed for enterprise B2B organizations to aggregate customer data, automate lifecycle workflows, and monitor account health. As a dedicated Customer Success platform, it evaluates product usage telemetry, communication logs, and financial metrics to proactively manage customer health and support value realization.N/A
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    Features
    Microsoft BizTalkPlanhat
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and Planhat
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    Microsoft BizTalk Server
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    Ratings
    Planhat
    7.5
    13 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.513 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and Planhat
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    Microsoft BizTalk Server
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    Planhat
    7.5
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    API00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and Planhat
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    Microsoft BizTalk Server
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    Ratings
    Planhat
    8.2
    14 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Product usage00 Ratings8.214 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.212 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and Planhat
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    Microsoft BizTalk Server
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    Planhat
    7.9
    14 Ratings
    8% below category average
    NPS surveys00 Ratings7.712 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Customer profiles00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Automated workflow00 Ratings6.713 Ratings
    Internal collaboration00 Ratings8.513 Ratings
    Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Customer segmentation00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft BizTalk Server and Planhat
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    Microsoft BizTalk Server
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    Ratings
    Planhat
    6.9
    13 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Customer health trends00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    Engagement analytics00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting00 Ratings5.68 Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.213 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft BizTalkPlanhat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.7
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft BizTalkPlanhat
    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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    Planhat
    For someone working in the Customer Success team, Planhat is a must-have software. All your client-level data can be easily managed, stored, and reviewed at any point in time by Planhat. It also helps the management and the leadership team better see each account and its usage. It also helps in identifying potentially risky customers and taking the required actions to engage and retain the account. It also gets integrated easily with other meeting recording tools wherein the summary from the tool gets easily synced with Planhat
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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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    Planhat
    • Reporting - you can set up filters with boolean criteria to give you insight into everything you need to know.
    • Playbooks - these are very good for less-experienced CSM's who need a step-by-step guide on how to deal with different stages of the customer lifecycle. More experienced CSM's may not need the playbooks.
    • Usage data for customers - there's a wide range of charts in Planhat that tell the story of client consumption.
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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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    Planhat
    • Allow for cc'ing of AEs or others within the same organization from the messaging center. When I went to send a message from within Planhat, I had to manually type out the AE's email address every time if I wanted them cc'd.
    • The fonts were funky if I went to add text into an existing email template. For example, if I added in an extra sentence or paragraph, in Outlook on the recipient's end, the font was different despite looking the same within Planhat. Gmail was all consistent, Outlook was showing a different font.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    BizTalk will always be required at this hospital.
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    Planhat
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    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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    Planhat
    It takes a while to learn Planhat even for experienced users. It has limitations in terms of what data you can present where, but its important to set internal guides outside Planhat as well so everybody working collaborative. But as CSM Planhat is a great- and critical tool which I use daily to optimise my work schedule and customer interaction with various topics.
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    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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    Planhat
    The support team couldn't be better. They are quick to respond, very helpful, and thorough. Our CS manager was always happy to schedule calls to go through specific feature queries and she ensured we had a smooth and quick setup.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Make sure you have everybody and all depts. On board during testing on test server.
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    Planhat
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    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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    Planhat
    I was not the person involved in choosing Planhat, but it seems to me that Planhat is much better suited to an account management style role, whereas Hubspot is closer to a sales CRM instead. In my position, Planhat is better suited as it is more graphical, more flexible, and easier to find information on.
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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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    Planhat
    • Planhat has, for the first time, given us a 360-degree view of all our customers and access to all the different types of communication we have with them across different departments and functions.
    • The ability to automate workflows, tasks, and assign playbooks to the various phases of our customer lifecycle has aligned all our departments.
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