Axway Interchange – Create and Manage High-Volume B2B Communities

Axway Interchange is a high-performance and highly scalable gateway built on an open, Java-based architecture. Designed for event-driven and real-time communications and file exchange, Interchange enables you to use the Internet to establish an online trading community that reliably and securely connects your enterprise with all of your suppliers, partners, distributors, and service providers across private or public marketplaces of any size.

With Interchange, you and your partners have the freedom to choose the best combination of standards and formats for your respective environments, applications, and business processes. This capability translates into a powerful channel that will always be flexible and adaptable enough to accommodate the needs and preferences of your current and future trading partners, while at the same time leveraging your existing investments and processes.

Especially well suited for simplifying B2B communities requiring enriched standards such as EDIINT (AS1, AS2 and AS3), ebXML, Web Services, and RosettaNet, Axway Interchange provides a secure, scalable, and easy-to-manage B2B gateway that can extend your business processes beyond your four walls.

Usability:

• Secure, easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use, and easy-to-support EndPoints and Community Solutions allow you to quickly establish last-mile connections with members of your trading community.
• Automatic profile synchronization ensures that information is always up-to-date between you and your trading partners.

Security:

• Multiple layers of protection include document encryption, secured connections, authenticated partner access, data integrity checks, and non-repudiation of origin and receipt using signed digital receipts.
• Secure Relay provides an additional layer of protection for inbound and outbound information with secure data streaming across the DMZ.

Reliability and performance:

• Tuning capabilities and real-time load sharing optimize the processing of transactions within your system to accommodate peak volumes and steady-stream processing across multiple servers or CPUs.
• Near real-time document exchange (as opposed to batch or once daily) speeds the pace of business.
• There are no limits on document size.

Integration and interoperability:

• For all standard B2B document structures, Interchange enables content-based routing, including user-friendly configuration and subsequent audit of transactions that leverage document content.
• Routing based on partner profile preferences and document contents (including standard setup for EDI standards, XML via XPath, and customized parsers) enables flexible management and easy configuration of B2B processes.
• Integration for payload and metadata via Synchrony Transfer, as well as support for traditional file transfer protocols, JMS, MQ Series, Web Services, and file systems, enables flexible integration with internal systems.
• Axway Interchange is fully integrated with Axway Transfer, a non-intrusive multi-platform file and message transfer controller designed for growing organizations that need to maintain business agility. Ensuring the same quality of service and a uniform interface to users and applications throughout the enterprise — regardless of the underlying platforms — Axway Transfer reduces the design, implementation, and operations costs associated with increasingly complex and interdependent business processes.

Manageability:

• A consolidated point of entry and exit for all file transfers and B2B transactions makes it easy to monitor and control your operations.
• An intuitive graphical user interface combines high-level message tracking with detailed views designed for ease of use and rapid adoption.

Visibility:

• A high-level dashboard incorporates all facets of administration into one view, including seamless integration with other systems.
• Optional business dashboards enhance visibility into POs, invoices, ASN, and SLAs; and technical dashboards deliver visibility into B2B transmissions and events.

Other Axway gateways include:

• SecureTransport, a secure multi-protocol directory-based solution for integrating processes, data, and file-based workflows throughout your global enterprise infrastructure.
• Gateway, with built-in support for industry-specific protocols, including ETEBAC and EBICS.
• Specialized B2Bi gateways for the financial services, healthcare, and automotive markets.
• Robust DMZ Security gateways that secure data as it flows into your enterprise from the Internet and out of your enterprise through your firewall.