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People think the front, middle and back office.
You can't afford to do that anymore. You have to think horizontally across the plane. It sits between the front office and client applications and the back office and the network and routes and reformats information as it flows into, through and out of the organization. What middleware does is decipher messages, respond to them and change them into the appropriate format for sending elsewhere. Messaging middleware is the most common in the financial services industry.