Microsoft BizTalk

BizTalk positively impacted this hospital by integrating with our new EMR and other software systems.

BizTalk allowed our bedside terminals to get set up with touch point dining so patients can order their own food.

BizTalk gave us a return on investment because it is widely used with more than one system here.

We got a return on investment because the cost of patients being for IPTV covers this server cost.

We had a positive impact by using BizTalk Server. We were able to deliver a scalable solution which was a huge challenge to cater more than 800K users with a dynamic application.

Users can run the server in clustered mode and increase capacity with much less cost.

No need to keep adding web servers. It reduces the need for more web servers.

Microsoft BizTalk is more of a neutral ground as its [pricey] but it does do what it says

Microsoft BizTalk requires a much larger team of developers and server ops to run

Microsoft BizTalk can be pricey depending on your agreement

Less down time

Easier solving issues when they arise

There is absolutely a positive impact on our investments.

Try not to solve all your issues with BizTalk.

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.

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.