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"Inovis is a leading
provider of on-demand Business Community
Management solutions that empower companies to
transact, collaborate and optimize
communications with every facet of their
business communities. By standardizing and
automating mission-critical business
interactions, companies can dramatically reduce
the complexity and cost of supply chain
communication."
Source: Inovis
Secure Managed File Transfer with BizLink
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A member of the BizManager&8482; product suite, BizLink&8482; is a powerful and
scalable enterprise-level server solution that provides for the secure managed
file transfer of critical business documents regardless of disparate data types,
transports and connectivity methods. It can protect your private data as well as
simplify the management of a complex community of trading partners, business
partners and internal organizations.
BizLink can serve as a single B2B Gateway solution for trading partner
connectivity, community management, mapping, transformation and
integration increasing visibility, removing inefficiencies, reducing errors and
providing a single view of the truth across the organization. Secure, real-time
integration between internal systems and trading partners results in increased
control and visibility into business transactions. Business activity monitoring
and real-time event management and alerts help proactively identify and resolve
potential issues. Archival and audit trail capabilities provide accountability
when discrepancies should arise.
This complete EDI and B2B solution can support all of your business units
while providing a highly dependable, robust and easy-to-use tool for your entire
business. It can also be extended to function as an easy interface to online
exchanges and marketplaces while offering additional communication options for
your evolving EDI and B2B initiatives.
Key Benefits
- Leverage secure B2B messaging, connectivity and integration
- Handle data mapping and transformation within the same solution
(database read-write, text, EDI, XML)
- Employ configurable process rules and intelligent document routing
- Increase visibility with exception dashboards, data tracking, auditing,
archiving and reporting
- Protect your investment with distributed deployment and load balancing
- Extend mailboxing and web forms to smaller trading partners
- Support secure managed file transfer (FTP/s, HTTP/s)
- Connect with trading partners using any AS1/AS2/AS3- or ebXML-certified
solution
Protect your data
BizLink supports the most secure data transfer standards available, and
digital certificates provide authentication, encryption and non-repudiation,
ensuring transactions arrive unaltered and that senders and receivers are who
they claim to be.
BizLink has been independently certified by eBusinessReady® for full support
of AS1/AS2/AS3 and ebXML. In addition, Inovis' patent-pending encryption process
supports the high-speed throughput of large amounts of encrypted data, reducing
bottlenecks and keeping transactions flowing.
BizLink also includes built-in transaction tracking, archival, reporting and
data retention with these robust features:
- Persistent queuing with retry, redundancy and fallback
- Broadcast email alerts of potential issues
- Automatic archival of closed-out transactions
- Actionable audit trails of all data exchange
Perimeter Security Services are provided with SecureLink&8482;, which fulfills the
strict security requirements of financial, healthcare and government
institutions and the most demanding security requirements of suppliers and
retailers in the supply chain. SecureLink includes HTTP and FTP proxies, a
secure FTP server with user credential authentication and digital certificates.
Leverage integrated data transformation and mapping capabilities
With real-time EDI capabilities, BizManager meets today's data translation
needs by providing compliant data transformation for EDI, XML, text files and
database-to-database. BizManager's data transformation services also:
- Offer transformation control numbers at interchange and group levels
within a party
- Allow processing rules and document parsing/splitting prior to
transformation rule actions
- Provide scalability to over ten million transformations a day
With wizards and drag-and-drop functionality for quick and easy mapping, you
can create simple mapping rules or use JavaScript for more complex
translations.The solution also facilitates flexible data conversion, including
flat file, ANSI X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS and GENCOD.
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
- IBM AIX
- HP-UX
- Sun Solaris
- Red Hat Linux
- Microsoft Windows
Simplify community management
Managing a large community of partners with constantly changing requirements
can be a tremendous challenge. BizLink was designed to simplify partner
management with setup wizards and a single, easy-to-use interface for adding new
partners and changing partner preferences. As your partners change or adopt
different data exchange standards, BizLink's open connectivity enables you to
effortlessly make the transition.
BizLink enables the secure exchange of transactions and other business
documents over the Internet (EDI-INT) via transports such as AS1 (SMTP), AS2
(HTTP), AS3 (FTP), ebXML and other network-based protocols and Web Services. It
supports multiple transport protocols and any type of data your partners need to
exchange, from EDI and XML to flat files such as spreadsheets or CAD drawings.
With BizLink's endless array of data exchange choices, 100% partner connectivity
is now an attainable goal.
In addition, BizLink delivers these built-in partner management features:
- Many-to-many and party hierarchy. Configure business rules to define the
routing of transactions to multiple parties (e.g., internal departments and
divisions or public exchange)
- Configurable user access control. Create customdefined roles with
granular privilege control, limiting the user's exposure to irrelevant or
sensitive data
- Distributed administration. Delegate administrative tasks to multiple
users
- XML import and export of system and partner configurations. Reduce your
connectivity setup time
- Secure mailboxing. Enable small trading partners, branches and even
divisions to participate via the Internet with user security controls and
automated mailbox acknowledgements
- Custom web forms. Empower smaller trading partners without in-house
capabilities to exchange EDI and XML documents in a standard business
document format
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
- User-friendly setup wizards
- Support for all popular data types
- EDI: X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS
- XML: DTD and schema support
- CSV and flat files
- Binary attachments
- Support for multiple data transport methods
- AS1/AS2/AS3, ebXML, etc.
- HTTP/s, FTP/s, SMTP
- NAESB (North American Energy Standards Board)
- Support for leading security standards, including:
- Personal Information Exchange PKCS 12
- Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard PKCS 7
- S/MIME Signed/Encrypted
- PGP
- RC4 128
- SSL
- TLS
- Transaction management, archiving and reporting
- Activity management, management by exception and notifications
- Streamlined integration with back-office systems, such as ERP and CRM
For more information, visit
www.inovis.com.