BizTalk workflow vs NinTex workflow tool
A customer recently asked about the interoperability of the Workflow modelling tool NinTex (on top of sharepoint) with other systems like BizTalk. Since i was not familiar with NinTex i downloaded the SDK, some product sheets and the help to find out about the capabilities to interop with other systems. Since workfows can be developed quite easily with NinTex the first customer question was; ‘How can the flows from NinTex be used in developing BizTalk’. NinTex has the ability to export the developed workflow to (unfortenately) an propietary format only. This means that it it not possible to re-use even parts of this workflow in for example visio. " A workflow can be exported and saved in the file format ".nwf" in order to be used in another location. " http://nintexdownload.com/HelpFiles/NW2007/NintexWorkflow2007UserManual.html The second question was related to integrating with NinTex; ‘How can BizTalk provide integration in such a way that the back-...