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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cleo Integration Cloud

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACleo Integration Cloud is a framework providing data integration between disparate systems and people within and across organizations.N/A

    Microsoft BizTalk

    Score6.3 out of 10
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    Cleo Integration CloudMicrosoft BizTalk
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    Cleo Integration CloudMicrosoft BizTalk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Cleo Integration CloudMicrosoft BizTalk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cleo Integration CloudMicrosoft BizTalk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cleo
    CLEO Integration Cloud is well suited in any environment where you need to move and translate business data from one format to another or multiple other formats. It is very well suited to replace existing EDI systems that are cumbersome, are a lot of work to add new mappings (add customers for example), or where the support is lousy and you are constantly creating support tickets to try to resolve issues. It just works very well and is constantly improving including keeping up to changes made by various services such as Shopify.
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    Microsoft
    BizTalk is well suited as middleware. Where you wish to translate an input file into an output file and send it to some endpoint. In our case, we used it to convert and send files to SAP. In many ways, it very flexible, and you can do almost anything you want with it. In many ways, it's a better solution than your SAP XI or PI as middleware, since it's much less expensive, and allows you do interface with non-SAP systems.
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    Pros
    Cleo
    • A great platform perfectly integrated with the rest of the company's software.
    • Detailed design with simple and easy access from anywhere to our information.
    • Multi-location and multi-device access.
    • We save on hardware, software and maintenance, by minimizing the user's need for powerful equipment and the programs in charge of managing and configuring them, reducing the investment in their acquisition.
    • Cleo integration is in charge of technical maintenance and updates.
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    Microsoft
    • It is very user friendly. Users can change rules during run time and change workflow.
    • Huge capacity for queueing messages. It supports all types of adapters like Oracle, Salesforce, SMTP, FTP, etc. Also users can built custom adaptors.
    • If users want to dynamically deploy their solution without any downtime, this is a perfect solution. BizTalk will be a good fit, especially for public-facing websites.
    • Well-proven in the market. I used it when developing a website for Virgin Trains, catering more than 800K user requests per day.
    • Helps in load balancing.
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    Cons
    Cleo
    • A fully functional help manual would be good. Some topics have no help at all, "envelopeassemblybycontext" for instance.
    • A needed feature is to be able to sort files by either file type (FM, RS, BPS) or by filename. Some of our projects have almost a hundred files.
    • Better, more descriptive error messages. Sometimes a ruleset or process fails and the error message is not helpful.
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft BizTalk is over engineered for some situtations
    • Microsoft BizTalk can be frustrating to use as it forces you to use the GUI as opposed to code
    • Microsoft BizTalk is very resource intensive to create integrations
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cleo
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    Microsoft
    BizTalk will always be required at this hospital.
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    Usability
    Cleo
    Ease in understanding and setup.
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    Microsoft
    I gave a 7 because this product BizTalk does need time and training to get familiar with the usability and features, it is not that easy to use.
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    Support Rating
    Cleo
    Great data manager in the cloud, at a competitive price, backed by a great company and great professionals.
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    Microsoft
    BizTalk Server has been supported for more than 15 years. It is well proven in the market. Microsoft has provided excellent support with technical issues.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cleo
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    Microsoft
    Make sure you have everybody and all depts. On board during testing on test server.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cleo
    Before choosing a solution, we did a detailed analysis of cost, performance, scaling and support. Cleo checked all the right boxes and we have been very satisfied with our choice.
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    Microsoft
    BizTalk was selected here mainly because it is easy to integrate to a .NET application (most of them are Web Service, WCF SOAP, WCF REST and Web API) and many backend databases are Microsoft SQL Server. Another benefit is that the monitoring job is easy to set up and centralize with other .NET application monitoring jobs.
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    Return on Investment
    Cleo
    • We have easily improved our EDI tenfold (or more) as far as ease of adding new customers for example
    • We have saved a ton of money by reducing chargebacks for missing ASNs for example
    • We have improved customer scorecards where they measure our EDI performance such as one large brand name customer we sell wholesale to who originally scored us around 28% and after implementing CLEO we quickly went to a 96%+ score.
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    Microsoft
    • A positive impact has been the quicker turnaround time of a part request and that part showing up in SAP using Biztalk as middleware.
    • A somewhat negative impact has been the somewhat insufficient error logging/message capture settings that Biztalk provide. This has caused occasional delays when attempted to create parts for the business.
    • A somewhat negative impact has been the need to have a specialized developer who understands Biztalk to troubleshoot issues with the Biztalk and SAP interaction when creating parts, and when adding new fields to the parts.
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