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Welcome to SmartsIntegrator
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BizTalk 2006(R)
Feature Comparison
SmartsIntegrator is aimed at the same market
as Microsoft BizTalk 2006, and can be used to solve the same Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI) and Business Process Management (BPM) issues. The two are
functionally and conceptually very similar, but of course there are also significant
differences.
Generally we consider BizTalk to be over-engineered and awkward to use. It's
well placed to solve your problem, and will ultimately deliver a reliable solution
- however development is complicated (requiring specialist personnel), debugging
is difficult and it can't easily be used straight out of the box. Additionally,
relative to SmartsIntegrator, BizTalk is very expensive!
Deployment in BizTalk is particularly complicated and error-prone, and many conceptually
straightforward operations are actually very difficult to achieve. For example
in BizTalk if you want to filter on a field of a message, you have to write a Property
schema, associate it, map the field, and then deploy it, all of which we consider
to be unintuitive.
In SmartsIntegrator by contrast, you can simply filter on XPath expressions directly,
or on a port you can specify XPath expressions to be evaluated and stored as named
properties on receipt of a Message. The functionality is where you would logically
expect it.
Of course there are two sides to this story - BizTalk's rigid structures can make
it more efficient in some cases, and if your solution is up against processing constraints
(for example you are expecting to receive millions of messages an hour) then this
trade-off is likely to be worthwhile. Generally though we have designed SmartsIntegrator
to be easier to use and less frustrating than BizTalk, at the potential expense
of high-end throughput, and specifically to address the top ten BizTalk gripes researched
by our team.
We have gone to great care to ensure that BizTalk skills are entirely transferrable
to SmartsIntegrator, and vice versa to a certain extent, thus a BizTalk developer
will be able to pick up and run with SmartsIntegrator without facing a significant
learning curve.
Specific differences
- SmartsIntegrator lets you parameterize
Workflows, and deploy the same Workflow more than once (usually with different parameters / Port bindings)
- SmartsIntegrator supports parameterized
Maps
- SmartsIntegrator has a unified Explorer-style development
and administration interface. You can develop the solution on any machine, subject to your access
rights. There's no need for a Visual Studio development environment.
- SmartsIntegrator has a centralised deployment model - the solution can be pushed
out centrally (including referenced assemblies), and if required you can develop
and test whilst your release servers carry on running using pinned versions
- SmartsIntegrator has full Email support
- SmartsIntegrator has a significantly greater palette of Map functions, including
for example iteration and XPath support,
as well as support for structured map code and integrated debugging
- There are no property schemas in SmartsIntegrator - you can extract and store
properties at the Port level, or you can use XPath expressions throughout
- SmartsIntegrator fully supports the Window Workflow Foundation, so workflows are easily extensible
- SmartsIntegrator can integrate with Outlook 2007
- SmartsIntegrator is more easily extensible - for example you can write a custom
transport by just implementing one method
- SmartsIntegrator includes direct
support for receipt correlation
- SmartsIntegrator has compression and automatic archiving support
- SmartsIntegrator includes a forms designer
- SmartsIntegrator tracking has been designed to help you debug complicated issues
faster and give you greater internal visibility
- SmartsIntegrator can be installed
and configured in minutes
- SmartsIntegrator can be licensed
for integration within your application to provide data mapping, workflow and I/O
functonality
- The Business Intelligence features in SmartsIntegrator are currently less well
developed than BAM in BizTalk 2006. This means that whilst the same kind of
results can easily be achieved, the process is less automated.
- Whilst SmartsIntegrator does support SharePoint 2007
integration (for synchronized
lists), there is no direct equivalent of BAS. Again this means that whilst
the same kind of results can easily be achieved, the process is less automated.
- SmartsIntegrator
offers duplicate message detection
- SmartsIntegrator
enables you to work with strongly typed schemas at design-time when writing custom
code
- SmartsIntegrator
supports C# and Visual Basic.Net for writing custom map and workflow logic, with
full project support and no code restrictions
- SmartsIntegrator
supports secure FTP (SFTP and FTPS)
- SmartsIntegrator
will run on SQLExpress, so there's no need for a SQLServer License. There's
also no need for a separate license for Microsoft Visual Studio
- SmartsIntegrator
offers Messaging and Mapping
support for Access 2007
- The EDI functionality in SmartsIntegrator is less well developed
- SmartsIntegrator is 100% 64-bit
- SmartsIntegrator is a lot less
expensive! - generally 10 to 100 times less than equivalent BizTalk licensing
- Simpler licensing : BizTalk
comes in a range of editions and licensing models, but there's only one fully featured
and unsrestricted edition of SmartsIntegrator with machine licensing that you'll
never outgrow
Click for :
Overview
Conceptual overview and complete feature list
Example applications
Screenshots
Trial download
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Limited time offer - Get full SmartsIntegrator licenses with 75% off |
Yes, for the moment full SmartsIntegrator
licenses are just 25% of regular price.
That's an unbelievable price of just $499 (£295, 375 EURO) per
machine. And all licenses include 12 months of free software updates and basic email support.
This can't last for long as we really do need to make some revenue, but for the
moment our priority is to get SmartsIntegrator established in the marketplace.
Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity now... |
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