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OpenText MBPM offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities to provide integration with applications on a wide variety of different platforms. Processes are usually best defined by business analysts, but integration tends to require more technical skills. OpenText MBPM’s integration capabilities allow developers to create integration points that business analysts can then use like native OpenText MBPM resources. Business analysts are shielded from the integration tasks and provided with the data they need in a format that fits their expectations.

Expression Builder

OpenText MBPM Version 9 uses a .NET based expression language. The expression language provides significant business benefits including:

• Standard Technology: The new expression layer is built on standard .NET technology that is widely used by the majority of businesses.

• Easier to Learn: Because of the standardization and closer similarities to other environments, new users will be more familiar to the new concepts and will more easily learn OpenText MBPM.

• Easier to Use: The expression language makes extensive use of Intellisense, providing the ability to see members of object, auto completion, and information about formula and parameters.

• Extensible: The expression language has been designed for extensibility. It is easy to extend the out-of-the-box formula by “promoting” custom script functions into the expression layer.

• Improved Validation: All expressions are immediately validated in place as the expressions are typed in ensuring correct syntax and data type usage.

• Faster Execution Times: The expression language is a fully compiled language and is therefore executed significantly faster than an interpreted language.