Jan Pieczykolan "Grid as an integration platform for bussines aplications" A common problem in business is the plurality of legacy and domain systems. They often stay in completely separate environments, but almost always they share some data and rely on each other. Currently, integration of such systems has been assured by dedicated software called integration platforms, which often follow the SOA paradigm. The talk will be focused on using The Grid as an integration platform. Existing and utilized solutions will be discussed and compared with existing Grid middleware. The problem of popularity of The Grid in business will be discussed, and some answers will be presented to run a discussion on this topic.