The difficult economic conditions of the past few years along with the today's highly competitive business environment have acted as a catalyst in accelerating the number of mergers and acquisitions. Many small and midsize businesses are joining together to face competition from their bigger rivals. The success of these organizations depends not only on proper alignment of the personnel roles but also on the seamless integration of applications and operations that allows a smooth flow of business processes, and transactions, across multiple platforms. Many times this involves integrating new technologies with the legacy applications.

Many times businesses want to integrate various applications, often the legacy applications with the new applications, within their own organization in order to improve the speed, efficiency, and performance of the organization, and gain competitive advantage.