Business integration is becoming increasingly important for many companies, with the need to streamline processes for efficiency and productivity while at the same time leveraging years of IT investments and becoming a more agile business that can move swiftly to exploit market opportunities and beat competition.

Agility can only be achieved by ensuring that business processes can be changed nimbly, and this in turn is only possible when the in-place IT assets are integrated flexibly to accommodate the required speed of change.