Axway B2Bi – It’s Time to Standardize B2B Integration

When your business, your partners, your bank, your customers, and your industry’s regulatory bodies are all using different applications and ERP systems with various interaction patterns, establishing multi-enterprise business processes can be difficult. Add in business growth and constant change, customer mandates for EDI connections, and government regulations requiring specific security and audit capabilities, and the task of business integration can seem monumental.

Axway B2Bi makes integration mountains into mole hills.

Axway B2Bi is a comprehensive, packaged solution that integrates your business with your trading and customer community, regardless of complexity. B2Bi provides a simple way to handle EDI, XML and other applications (such as SAP, Oracle and Lawson) with a centralized, easy-to-use interface for all configuration, system administration and message management.

With Axway’s B2Bi solution you can:

• Consolidate your B2B and MFT infrastructure, including costly VAN connections
• Manage your B2B order-to-cash trade processes end-to-end, including eInvoicing
• Enable your partner community with WebEDI, auto-configurable endpoints and secure email

Axway B2Bi is a robust, extensible solution that can accommodate every phase of business growth within any industry. Axway B2Bi also leverages Axway’s powerful MFT capabilities making it a unique market solution that offers both message and file-based B2B transactions. Features include:

• Secure B2B connectivity and communications — A single solution for establishing connections with everyone you do business with improves the security and integrity of orders and data transfers, while reducing software, training, and maintenance costs. Axway B2Bi supports a wide variety of B2B messaging protocols, including EDI-INT (AS1/AS2/AS3), OFTP (V1 and V2), ebXML, RosettaNet (V1 and V2), Web services, HTTP/S, FTP/S, X.400 (X.420 and X.435), networks like TCP/IP, X.25 and ISDN and more. EDI-INT and ebXML are certified by the Drummond Group annually.
• Internal/back-end integration — Axway B2Bi is integration-ready, no matter what type of back-office you have. File and Message brokering including support for JMS, JDBC, file-based Integration, HTTP, FTP (client), email integration through SMTP and MIME, and MQ Series reduce connectivity costs, leverage existing investments, and extend your ERP system (Oracle, SAP, Lawson and more) for better visibility and control over B2B transactions. SAP integration is certified per the SAP interoperability certification process.
• Wizard-based community management — An easy-to-use interface and automated endpoint fulfillment let you quickly set up and manage secure communications and process flows with trading partners. Axway B2Bi supports a variety of Axway EndPoints.
• Out-of-the-box EDI support and document handling — Axway B2Bi supports EDI (ASC X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS (including T93), VDA and more) and WebEDI out of the box, minimizing installation and set-up time and costs. Key capabilities include Meta Data management, document handling, message checking, enveloping & splitting, automatic acknowledgment generation, and business logic support.
• Eclipse-based mapping services and administration — An intuitive Eclipse interface for mapping design, transformation, translation, validation, integration, and reporting services makes it easy to create, simulate, test, and deploy new maps and integration processes very quickly, and includes integrated version control capabilities.
• End-to-end Visibility — An event-based architecture supports transaction and process tracking and reporting for business and technical users, as well as analytics and lifecycle management — within and beyond the enterprise.
• Transaction and process tracking and reporting — B2B/EDI message management, customizable search, context-sensitive tasks, and drill-down navigation give you visibility into what is happening across your entire trading ecosystem, including a graphical representation of end-to-end flow around every transfer. End-to-end transaction monitoring with real-time alerts and rules-based routing allows you to quickly troubleshoot problems to support SLA requirements.

Axway B2Bi integrates enterprise-class functionality to provide secure communications and business transactions, and seamless enterprise application integration with back-end systems. Whether you deploy all key B2Bi functionality, or implement a la carte, you’ll see lower costs and tighter control over your enterprise processes.

• Gateways allow you to automate and manage B2B communications and file transfer channels with full end-to-end security.
• Integration products and industry-specific B2B solutions process business data from any source and in any format, including all variants of XML and EDI.
• Gain better governance for data exchanged throughout your entire value/supply chain to ensure compliance and monitor SLAs with appropriate quality of service.
• Visibility and analytics tools provide real-time views into business processes within the enterprise, along the supply chain, and in the trading partner community. Granular visibility lets you extract business content and run analytics and KPIs to improve performance.
• Business Process Management enables organizations to design, execute, manage, and monitor platform-independent business processes that span multiple steps, multiple users, multiple applications, and multiple organizations – including business units, partners, suppliers, and customers.
• Modeling and configuration tools enable you to define, set, refine, test, and deploy business processes and all integration parameters in your B2Bi Enterprise framework.
• A single interface for centralized management of all B2Bi Enterprise components minimizes complexity and maximizes efficiency and governance.

With Axway B2Bi, you don’t have to worry about choosing the best fit-to-cost architecture, because Axway B2Bi solutions scale easily through every phase of business growth.