Review the Design

Let's take a step back and try to understand what these sales people want. First, they want to ensure that all client proposals get routed to senior sales employees before being delivered to the clients. Second, the sales team would like to have an automated travel request solution to help expedite travel requests that must be approved before travel plans can be made.

For quick and easy Office document routing, the document routing features provided by almost all of the Microsoft Office products is a good place to start. For Sales' second request, which deals with travel request approvals, I think Exchange routing fits the bill. However, before I get into the Exchange Routing Engine, let me discuss the document routing problem ...

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