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It’s Time to Standardize B2B Integration

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

Axway B2Bi Express is a comprehensive, packaged solution that delivers B2B integrations at the lowest total cost of ownership for enterprises of any size. B2Bi Express integrates your business with your trading and customer community and provides superb visibility – regardless of complexity. B2Bi Express provides a simple way to handle EDI, XML and other applications (such as SAP and Lawson) with a centralized, easy-to-use interface for all configuration and management.

B2Bi Express is a robust, extensible solution that can accommodate every phase of business growth within any industry.  If improved collaboration between your trading partners and the right level of business visibility into your supply chain processes will help you make better decisions, then B2Bi Express is the solution you need.  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. B2Bi Express 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— B2Bi Express 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. B2Bi Express also leverages Axway’s powerful MFT capabilities [link to Axway Transfer], making it a unique market solution that offers both message and file-based B2B transactions.
  • 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. B2Bi Express supports a variety of Axway EndPoints.
  • Out-of-the-box EDI support and document handling— B2Bi Express 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.
  • 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.

With B2Bi Express, you don’t have to worry about choosing the best fit-to-cost architecture, because a B2Bi Express solution scales easily through every phase of business growth.