Today's business requirements are driving the need for open standards-based messaging technology. IT architects are faced with the challenge of how to leverage and integrate existing legacy systems and reuse their functionality over the Internet.

• You want to reduce costs by centralizing onto a single server location; will your applications still work? Can you coordinate clients and servers?
• You acquire a new subsidiary; do you know how to integrate its systems into your business?
• Government and regulatory bodies change the ground rules; can you respond fast enough?
• Avoiding vendor lock-in is also a crucial consideration. Although organizations want to maximize the return on their existing software assets, it is important that they don't find themselves being held hostage by their vendors.

This white paper identifies the business requirements driving the need for open standards-based messaging technology, and explains how SpiritSoft's JMS technology helps IT architects to build, deploy and manage distributed systems.