BizTalk vs. WF in the Enterprise

Recently an Enterprise Architect for a large bank in Canada asked me what I thought about using BizTalk for to centralize human workflow. His goal is to centralize this functionality as much as possible. This is a great idea but there are many challenges to this.

If you refer to my previous post I describe many of these issues indirectly though unstructured vs. structured data. The theme applies here as well.

I would encourage you to take a look at an MSDN article I wrote on this topic, you can find it at:

Architecting Enterprise Loan Workflows and Orchestrations

The following article echoes a lot of my thoughts from a rules and separation perspective:

https://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2005/11/biztalk_windows.html

For a developers aspect there is a good deck:

TwinCitiesBizTalkUserGrup%20-%20Rule%20Engines.ppt