Thursday, March 24, 2005

ODBA : Orchestration Designer For Business Aanalyst

I recently started looking into BizTalk 2004. I read the specs and found a reference to tool called ODBA (Orchestration Designer For Business Analysts). This is an interesting tool that can be used by Business Analysts to specify and define their business processes using Microsoft Visio. So far so good. To my utter amazement this tool was not released with BizTalk 2004 initially and still the documentation made references to it without ever mentioning/specifying that this tool will be made available some times later. What happened was that since i found the reference about this tool very useful i statrted searching for it on my machine and BizTalk's setup directory without knowing that this tool was not to be found there. After wasting an hour or so I quit searching my on my machine and started looking for ODBA on google and there where i found this information that this tool was not released with BizTalk 2004 however it has been made available for download now.

I am sharing the link if this tools download source with u all, so that you dont have to suffer the way I had to:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c74d08bd-617e-43ac-b303-b6063b929bb3&DisplayLang=en

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