IT:AD:BizTalk

* 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:

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