UnitSpace is a privately held software developer founded in 1999 with a mission to help enterprise architects and IT managers achieve manageable business integration. UnitSpace's unique service-oriented integration (SOI) middleware boosts customers' SOA transformation initiatives by radically accelerating and simplifying service delivery, improving manageability and reducing costs. Led by software industry veterans and renowned business technologists, UnitSpace clients include Europe's top multinationals and government agencies.

During the early years of Web services value was created by opening existing systems to new information flows. Without redesigning the underlying solutions and IT architecture, this first wave of Web services adoption produced limited results. UnitSpace was among the early Web services innovators to recognize the transformational potential of Web services when combined with SOA. UnitSpace products embed SOA best practices, including loose coupling and federated management, helping customers achieve greater returns from Web services-based interoperability.

In its relationships with clients, UnitSpace has found that a majority of them are concerned with their organization's ability to quickly and correctly respond to changing market conditions and government policy as well as to everyday business events arising outside of organization. For organizations with multiple locations and business partners, this entails:

• facilitating secure, free flow of information across the enterprise;
• integration of interconnected value nets of partners, suppliers and clients;
• designing business processes to be responsive to new demands, opportunities and threats.

UnitSpace's shared business integration middleware leverages Web services standards and SOA practices to address these needs, facilitating manageability, security and collaboration. UnitSpace helps clients and partners drive corporate performance and business innovation across the extended enterprise by building mature, mission-critical interoperability solutions based on existing IT assets.