Enterprise Instant Messaging platforms with its ability to handle huge actionable ‘internet scale’ messaging loads can bring to reality long spanning ‘software integration’ scenarios to the cloud. Let us see the need, the gaps and the possibilities that exists. Today, more and more organizations are moving to the cloud for their mission critical computing needs. Solutions on the cloud are usually pain point specific or solution specific, if it were not so they would again be staring at monolithic ERP kind of implementations and associated risks. Such monolithic solutions which stake claim to solving every organizational pain in a single product are best implemented and consumed in on-premise licensing model, to state an obvious fact – they are very expensive to acquire, implement and maintain. So, solutions on the cloud bring in best of breed in every domain as packaged point solutions and also offer economical consumption models as well as maintenance is taken care by the provider.