# IT:AD:BizTalk #


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## Notes ##

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* Advantages:
    * provides a lot of 'plumbing' around deployment, management, performance, and scalability. 
        * Through Visual Studio, provides a comprehensive framework for developing solutions, often with relatively little code. 
* Considerations:
    * BizTalk is Hub and Spoke. Before choosing it, ensure that that this the design you want (versus an ESB or SB approach, with something like [[IT/AD/NServiceBus/]])
    * Although 'standardized' is often talked about as an advantage when looking for resources the fact is BizTalk is specialized, and possibly dying. Maybe there is no advantage, really. 
* Disadvantages:


## Resources ##
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61437/what-are-some-viable-alternatives-to-biztalk-server