Advanced Energy develops innovative power and control technologies that drive high-growth, plasma thin-film manufacturing processes worldwide. They needed to orchestrate a highly complex integration solution between two of their key line of business applications. They were looking for SAP integration into Salesforce.com using BizTalk Server to support 150 – 300 users. They had the following challenges ahead of them:
- Cost of in-house development and training to build the required solution was high
- Advanced Energy wanted to avoid spending time and money on a complex technology if they could find a readily available solution
- Valuable resources would have to be pulled off core company initiatives to manage such a project