Do you have an inbound FTP service that someone then has to manually post to a web page? How about a weekly Excel file that you need to add to a database so it's viewable on the intranet? How about a data file that needs to be converted to a different format? There are many times when systems don't *quite* work together, and you need someone manually entering data or making conversions in order for the system to work. In comes systems glue. A lightweight program can listen to log files or monitor files and folders for changes, updating, uploading, scanning, converting, or ensuring conformance to a standard or particular format. This kind of automation can take tasks that took a full day and get them done in seconds, or queue them for human review in a process that takes minutes instead of hours.