BizTalk is a broad and inherently flexible product that can be used to build a large variety of applications; however, it exists to solve very complicated problems, it has a long ramp-up time associated with it, and many people simply find it too daunting to consider. As a reaction to these hurdles, this article will discuss different application styles that can be built with BizTalk instead of attempting to describe it and its features. A set of questions for determining when BizTalk Server could be used will also be presented.