The key drivers behind enterprise decisions to migrate messaging platforms can be group into two main categories - economic value, and business competitiveness. Economic value drivers include: Server Consolidation – providing significant savings in capital, maintenance, TCO and business continuity- can be attained by consolidating to central sites IP Telephony - assuring that applications (such as messaging) are upgraded to work consistently with IP telephony investments Economic Refresh – replacing of systems coming off leases or that are nearing end of sale or end of support
Business Competitiveness drivers include: Employee Productivity – enabling mobile workers to be reachable
by their customers and their linked to their own work activities Business Process Improvement – that can assure transactions move quickly and effectively through the enterprise.
Your messaging migration strategy can vary depending on which of these factors is most applicable to your organization. | 
