Inter-Office connectivity
- Improve work-flow across the company landscape.
- Improve speed of communication and accuracy of the information exchanged between various branch offices.
- Reusability of legacy systems and applications in the enterprise.
- Validate compliance to mandates from industry or government.
- Identify time spent in the middle of a modeled business process spanning several departments.
- Potentially migrating away from complex propriety, and unsupported middleware-type solutions
Vendor and Partner Compliance
- Migration away from a EDI/Van type solution to a cost effective BizTalk solution.
- Validate compliance to mandates from industry or government, such as EDI/Edifact, HIPAA, UCCNet, and HL7.
- Investigate the need for B2B xml integration outside the firewall.
- validate automation of existing vendor or provider workflow and replacement of "paper pushing" type activities.
- Improvement in speed of transaction communication and accuracy between vendor and partner.
Customer Self-service Portals
- Potentially expose product attribute, tracking, shipping, and inventory information within an online channel
- Obtain greater process control and definition around loosely coupled business process, such as sales order life cycle.
- Provide real-time information on current project status, financing terms, project risks, and so on.
- scrutinize how the solution aids in exposing and monitoring the Supply Chain Management process.
- Accurate decision making: aggregation of data from sources and process allows individuals to make more accurate decisions.
source: Microsoft web site selling BizTalk server.