Information technology has become an increasingly important part of the business landscape, with companies running many applications to meet the diverse needs of their employees, customers and partners. By streamlining processes, accelerating transactions and giving people more complete and timely information, these applications improve productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction. That's only if those applications can share information in real-time, though, so companies deploy message-oriented middleware to tie them all together. The nature of inter-system interactions varies greatly, so they've had to cobble together a combination of middleware solutions from different vendors. Each one must be separately deployed, managed, capacity planned, upgraded and in some cases "bridged" together, which makes their IT infrastructure complicated and expensive. Solace transforms the economics and performance of IT infrastructure by performing all kinds of middleware functions in purpose-built appliances that feature best-of-breed performance in all areas, a common API, and unified administration.