Give me a B, Give me a P, Give me a M - What's that spell - BPM!
If you haven't seen it yet, we launched a new Business Process Management site at http://www.microsoft.com/bpm
Even though the site promptly redirects you to a BizTalk site, we're just hosting the site using the BizTalk's team web resources. The SharePoint, BTS and Windows Workflow Foundation folks all got together and tried to help give clear guidance on how our technologies integrate today and in the future. Plus, we wanted to help position when to use which technology to solve your business problems.
Did we do a good job? Only time will tell. Expect more of this type of guidance from us for other topics in the near future where a couple of MSFT technologies seem to fit the bill. Contrary to what some may think, different MSFT groups actually do talk to one another and collaborate on solving these types of scenarios :)
While I'm on the topic, if you haven't look at Eilene's workflow intro in SharePoint, it's worth a read - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/06/07/621210.aspx
On a separate note, my beta 1 box just expired so if any of you have run into this, reset the clock and restart. I'm going to reformat the machine anyway when the next build comes out anyway. . .
