Comparing WF with Microsoft BizTalk and WCF
If you’ve ever worked with BizTalk Server, Microsoft’s business to business (B2B) connection platform, you’ve undoubtedly worked with orchestration. Orchestration is BizTalk’s term for workflow. Using BizTalk Server, you can use a graphical editor to lay out business processes, and some of these processes might even include external agencies, such as a trading partner, through external communications protocols. Communication with your trading partners is easy and seamless with BizTalk.
But that’s the key to the difference between WF and BizTalk Server. BizTalk Server is designed to integrate multiple businesses, or put another way, to facilitate electronic commerce. WF, on the other hand, is designed ...
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