As enterprises add new applications or upgrade existing ones, they face the challenge of integrating these with existing systems. Proprietary solutions or stand alone legacy applications create silos that are inefficient and expensive to maintain. Tripod uses leading edge application integration techniques like XML, SOAP, JMS and Web Services with the extensibility provided by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to build solutions that:

	Can integrate both custom built and off the shelf applications
	Are standards based and easy to manage
	Are based on completely open middleware system that is flexible and devoid of proprietary implementation, thus building vendor independence