Most companies have an environment of disparate legacy systems, applications, processes, and data sources, which typically interact by a maze of interconnections that are poorly documented and expensive to maintain. Additional problems arise from market consolidation in the digital age, where mergers and acquisitions of companies can increase the complexity of system integration exponentially.

The goal of Content Distribution is to provide a loosely coupled infrastructure between legacy systems and the Internet or Intranet. An infrastructure of SOA or Web Services provides a channel for delivering legacy data to existing and future web devices.