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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
The power of a Comprehensive B2B Gateway
B2B Gateway is also known as :
B2B Gateway,
Business-to-Business B2B Gateways,
b2b Gateway Software,
B2B Gateway Solution,
B2B Gateway Management,
Business Gateway,
Business to Business Site,
B2B,
business to customer,
Strategic B2B Planning,
business to business marketing,
business to business websites,
business to business e-commerce,
B2B Gateway Business Integration Software,
Gateway EDI business electronic,
Business To Business Edi,
Business EDI Services,
Business-to-Business B2B Gateways integrate data,
Easy B2B Gateway,
B2B EDI Integration.
The ability to quickly, easily and securely exchange information with your
trading partners is vital to your success. Purchase orders, invoices, advance
ship notices—these critical transactions drive your business. For financial
services, government and healthcare organizations, the integrity and security of
the data transfer itself is imperative. While the type of business documents and
information may vary by industry, the goals are the same: the standardized,
synchronized and streamlined exchange of information across your trading
community.
Key Benefits
- Simplify trading community management with integrated supply chain
communication solutions
- Meet industry mandates and trading partner requirements
- Realize 100% trading partner connectivity
- Minimize inefficiencies, transaction-processing costs and cycle times
- Gain real-time visibility into business activity and performance
- Integrate existing EDI translator/mapper solutions and back-office
systems with ease
- Plan for future growth with a flexible, scalable solution
- Enable the cost-effective and secure electronic exchange of information
with your trading partners
Translate. Exchange. Communicate.
When all partners communicate electronically, information travels faster and
with greater accuracy, improving decision-making and reducing costs. Enter
BizManager™, the most comprehensive B2B Gateway solution available for
messaging, mapping, transformation, trading partner community management,
tracking and auditing. Web-based, it leverages the latest industry standards and
provides for direct, secure data exchange, and can reduce the time, cost and
effort of fulfilling electronic communication requirements.
Efficient communication with your trading partners also depends on a high
level of interoperability between disparate solutions and support for customer
and industry initiatives. By leveraging the Internet and industry standards,
BizManager can enable your entire community of trading partners to exchange
information electronically—even partners that currently exchange information via
fax or phone— minimizing the manual rekeying of paper transactions and reducing
Value-Added Network costs. It’s also interoperable with third-party solutions
that support standards-based data transport.
As a result, you can successfully manage your trading partner and business
communities while connecting your organization to all of your business partners—
from Global 2000 organizations to much smaller operations—in a secure and
cost-effective environment. And as the rate of partner participation increases,
so do your savings.
Enhanced connectivity, visibility and control
Business systems are often purchased as point solutions by various divisions
within the same company. However, how well integrated these solutions are can
significantly impact your ability to conduct business—inside the organization
and across the trading community.
That’s why BizManager provides a fully integrated solution, or technological
backbone for the secure exchange of data, files and documents. All business
integration needs—whether application-to-application, internal
department-to-department or business-tobusiness with your trading community—are
consolidated into a single, open solution that can easily be integrated with
other technologies, greatly simplifying back-office system integration.
By enabling your internal systems to work in unison instead of as distinct
silos, your company will be better positioned to support future initiatives and
react quickly to new competitive pressures. You will also gain real-time
visibility into business activity and performance, the ability to analyze
critical operational metrics and enhanced control with proactive event
management/alerting capabilities.
Connect 100% of your trading partners
In your trading partner community and within your organization, disparate
technologies abound. Every partner has its own way of doing business, its own
unique requirements. How do you communicate with all of them without programming
an individual connection to each one? Easily, since BizManager accommodates
multiple transport protocols and any type of data your partners need to
exchange, from EDI and XML to flat files such as spreadsheets and CAD drawings.
Its high level of interoperability with other solutions means that partners
using any AS1/AS2/AS3- or ebXMLcertified solution can easily connect to
BizManager, further extending the return on your investment.
BizManager simplifies trading community management by consolidating
transformation and connectivity needs in one place and providing a detailed
audit trail for expedient issue resolution and control.
For companies with hundreds or even thousands of business partners, managing
the EDI-INT connectivity of each and every partner can be a heavy burden. Our
Community Development team will work directly with your partners to get them
connected as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Leave it to Inovis to contact
each of your partners, explain the business value of making a change, determine
which Inovis product offering best fits their needs and manage the entire
partner connectivity process.
Comply with evolving supply chain requirements
A highly scalable solution, BizManager brings your business a competitive
advantage in the rapidly changing technology landscape. By adhering to required
technical standards, trading partner satisfaction will improve, response times
will tighten and error rates will drop. BizManager supports evolving EDI
requirements with:
- Secure file transfer of business data and documents internally and with
your trading partners
- Several secure managed file transfer options and secure transports,
including AS1 (SMTP),AS2 (HTTP), AS3 (FTP), ebXML and other networkbased
protocols and Web Services
- Non-repudiation with proof of transmission and receipt
- Integrity of business data/documents with signed and encrypted documents
and encrypted HTTP/s and FTP/s connections
- Complete audit trail of all business data/documents exchanged via
BizManager
Multiple business requirements, single solution
Inovis can provide you with one fully integrated solution to fulfill the
communication and security requirements of your trading partners:
- Any-to-any connectivity. Any supported data format, any supported
transport protocol—with BizManager, how you connect is up to you. BizManager
enables simple point-and-click configuration of each partner’s communication
preferences, and its open connectivity eases back-office system integration.
- Map your way to success. With wizards and drag-anddrop functionality for
quick and easy mapping, you can create mapping rules or use JavaScript for
more complex and sophisticated translations. The solution also facilitates
flexible data conversion, including flat file, ANSI X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS
and GENCOD.
- Data transformation services. BizManager meets today’s data translation
needs with compliant data transformation for EDI, XML, text files and
databaseto- database, as well as:
- Transformation control numbers at interchange and group levels
within a party
- Processing rules and document parsing/splitting that can occur prior
to transformation rule actions
- A new Transformation Party at no additional cost
- Scalability to over ten million transformations per day
- Transaction management, archiving and reporting. BizManager includes
built-in transaction tracking with actionable audit trails; archiving with
automatic archival of closed-out transactions; real-time persistent queuing
with retry, redundancy and fallback; and advanced reporting capabilities.
- Activity and exception management. Users can create rules for document
interrogation and metadata-driven routing (e.g., identify purchase orders
with certain value ranges, route certain documents to other applications or
notify the warehouse manager when a particular trading partner’s transaction
has been processed). Exception management capabilities proactively locate
and list all errors relevant to individual user responsibilities, and alerts
notify the right people when potential business issues arise.
- Solutions that grow with you. BizManager is Java-based and
J2EE-compliant, bringing high scalability and faulttolerance to your B2B
communications.This scalability enables you to easily support increased
transaction volume as more partners participate or M&A activity increases
the scope of your business.
Securely exchange data
When it comes to electronically exchanging the information that runs your
business, security is paramount. In addition to fulfilling the most demanding
security requirements of suppliers and retailers across the supply chain,
BizManager is designed to meet the strictest requirements of financial,
healthcare and government institutions.
BizManager supports the most secure data transfer standards available,with
encryption, non-repudiation and digital certificates for authentication—ensuring
transactions arrive unaltered and that senders and receivers are who they claim
to be. Inovis' patentpending encryption process supports the high-speed
throughput of large amounts of encrypted data, reducing bottlenecks and keeping
transactions flowing.
BizManager has been independently certified by eBusinessReady® for full
support of leading security standards such as:
- Personal Information Exchange PKCS 12
- Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard PKCS 7
- S/MIME Signed/Encrypted
- PGP
- RC4 128
- SSL
- TLS
Advanced control over password configuration further protects your data from
unauthorized users, with combinations of uppercase, lowercase and numeric
characters, and a log of and limit on the number of invalid logon attempts.
SecureLink Outpost Redirector extends the solution by supporting two key
security tenets:
- No external party can push data/files directly to internal systems via
open ports
- No data/files are stored on a server in the DMZ, not even temporarily
BizLink™
Manage a large and diverse community of partners
BizLink is a powerful and scalable enterprise-level server solution that
simplifies the management of a complex community of trading partners, business
partners and internal organizations. BizLink runs on the IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun
Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows platforms.
- Secure mailboxing. When implemented by a hub, secure mailboxing enables
small trading partners, branches and even divisions to participate in
trading community management via the Internet.
- Custom web forms. When implemented by a BizLink hub, web forms present
information in a standard business document format and enable the exchange
of EDI and XML documents for trading partners without in-house capabilities.
- Load balancing and fault tolerance. BizLink provides these security
features via distributed installation on multiple servers.
BizConnect™
Streamline trading community management from your browser
BizConnect is a Java-based solution designed for small to medium-size
organizations that need secure connectivity internally and with up to 25 trading
partners. An embedded database is included with BizConnect to simplify
implementation in a small footprint, turnkey solution. Organizations with
constrained IT resources that prefer the Windows platform may also select
BizConnect.
BizManager400™
Enjoy flexible data exchange designed for the IBM System i platform
Built for the IBM System i and i5/OS platforms, BizManager400 is a native
Java-based solution for trading partner data exchange. BizManager400 leverages
Inovis’ expertise in trading partner connectivity to bring you the most flexible
solution for business-to-business communication, and remote access allows you to
manage your trading community via a web browser interface.
SecureLink™
Protect your internal systems from external threats
SecureLink is a component that resides in the DMZ and works with BizManager
to provide a single, secure gateway for all inbound and outbound data, isolating
and guarding your systems from exposure to outside vulnerabilities. It also
helps direct inbound messages to ensure your back-end systems don’t get
backlogged and inbound documents don’t fall through the cracks.
About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of supply chain communication solutions that
help businesses improve the flow of information across their trading community.
Our industry-leading, integrated solutions standardize, synchronize and
streamline communication to increase the percentage of perfect orders and
expedite the orderto- payment lifecycle. With more than 20 years of expertise,
Inovis delivers its products and services to more than 20,000 companies over a
wide range of industries and markets across the globe.
For more information, visit
www.inovis.com.