IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator is the gateway for interaction between the companies, provides safe integration of difficult processes of interaction in different partner communities.

Advantages

• increases transparency of demand and supply chains
• assists integration and interaction between systems and different partner communities in business relations between the companies
• rationalizes business processes which are beyond the company
• will keep in contact with business partners of users, irrespective of a difference in sizes of the companies, their arrangement or the used technologies

Functionality

Sterling B2B Integrator provides to the organization the specialized solution which can provide integration for all your business partners irrespective of their nature. Manage the most cross business relations and trace them using following features.

Security

• Management of subjects, including identification and providing access
• Defense of perimeter when passing DMZ
• Data access and system operation on the basis of roles
• The protected storage of mailboxes
• Support of the protected transport protocols (SSL, SFTP/SSH) and data encryption (S/MIME and PGP)
• Indisputability is provided with AS2 or AS3 protocol
• Support of digital signatures
• Protection at the level of messages and transport protocols on the basis of compliance of WS-Security 1.0, including WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and Basic Security Profile 1.0

Communication

• Protocols of communication between the companies: web services (SOAP), client and S/FTP/S, HTTP and HTTP/S, SMTP, AS1, AS2, AS3 and RosettaNet, WebDAV, Zengin TCP/IP server, IBM Sterling Connect: Direct
• File transfer on the basis of strategy
• Processing of files the size in several gigabytes
• Compatibility with IPv6

Business process management

• Instrument of graphic modeling of processes
• Execution engine of business processes
• Abstraction of processes (multi-level simulation and reuse of components)

Integration and conversion

• Multi-purpose mechanism of data translation
• Traditional EDI: X12, EDIFACT, CII, TRADACOMS and Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA)
• XML standards: OAGi, CIDX, PIDX and RosettaNet
• Internet standards for data exchange between the companies: RosettaNet RNIF, ebXML, 1SYNC and EBICS (France)
• Service XSLT for conversion of XML documents
• Supports the WTX conversions
• Instrument of graphic binding of data
• Practical the unlimited size of files (up to 50 gigabytes)
• Check of the entering and outgoing data on the basis of rules of HIPAA defined for levels 1-6
• Intellectual routing (on the basis of contents)
• Possibility of interaction with .Net 1.1/2.0, Axis 1.x/2.0, Xfire 1.2.6 and Java EES

Management of community

• Sodeysvtuyet to management of trading partners of communities
• Provides on a centralized basis representation of communities of trading partners
• Reduces quantity of errors
• Implements digital certificates
• Helps to configure configurations of partners
• Intellectually adapts with independent gaining access for partners

Expansion and setup of applications

• Web services: support of SOAP, WDSL
• Integrated development environment (IDE): the tool for acceleration of the user work on creating applications
• Set for application development (SDK): tools for creation of own adapters of systems

Basic adapters of communication

The universal library containing more than 300 adapters for the following purposes:

• Applications of the enterprises
• SAP (BAPI, IDOC и Netweaver), Oracle, Manugistics, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vantive, JD Edwards, I2, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct, IBM Sterling Connect:Enterprise, IBM Sterling Gentran:Server, GXS, IBM

• Platforms for message exchange of EAI
• IBM WebSphere Oracle TIBCO Microsoft MQ, AQ, BEA Tuxedo, Rendezvous, Vitria Businessware, WebMethods Enterprise, MSMQ, JMS Queue и Topic

• Technologies
• JDBC, CORBA, LDAP, command line, file system, EJB, RMI, SNMP trap, IBM CICS, JCA CCI, SSO, JSA, IM (instant messaging)

• Support of mobile devices
• IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Mobile provides tracking of processes and a status Sterling Integrator and management with them using digital mobile devices. Among the supported processes - a system status, growth of the database and waiting time of business processes.
• Monitoring of the Sterling Integrator resources with notifications, including tracking of a system status, growth of the database and average time of waiting of business processes.