IBM Sterling B2B Integrator enables the secure integration of complex B2B processes with diverse partner communities
Companies are increasingly faced with ever more complex B2B integration challenges across ever more diverse partner communities. IBM Sterling B2B Integrator provides a single, flexible B2B gateway that enables companies to solve all of their B2B integration needs.
- Boost visibility into and across your supply and demand chains
- Integrate your B2B communications between your systems and diverse partner communities
- Streamline business processes across your enterprise boundaries
- Connect to all of your business partners, despite differences in size, geography or choice of technology
Integrate your critical B2B processes, transactions, and relationships
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| Security | - Identity management, including authorization and authentication
- Perimeter security at DMZ traversal
- Role-based data access and system operation
- Secured mailboxing repository
- Data transport security (SSL, SFTP/SSH) and data encryption (S/MIME and PGP) support
- Non-repudiation using the AS2 or AS3 protocol
- Digital signature support
- Message- and transport-level security based on WS-Security 1.0 compliance, including WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and Basic Security Profile 1.0
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| Communication | - B2B communication protocols: Web services (SOAP), S/FTP/S client and server, HTTP and HTTP/S, SMTP, AS1, AS2, AS3 and RosettaNet, WebDAV, Zengin TCP/IP, IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®
- Policy-based file transfer
- Multi-gigabyte file handling
- IPv6 compatible
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| Business process management | - Graphical process modeling tool
- Business process execution engine
- Process abstraction (layered modeling and component reuse)
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| Integration and transformation | - Multi-purpose data transformation engine
- Traditional EDI: X12, EDIFACT, CII, TRADACOMS, and Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA)
- XML standards: OAGi, CIDX, PIDX, and RosettaNet
- Internet standards for B2B data exchange: RosettaNet RNIF, ebXML, 1SYNC, and EBICS
- XSLT service to transform XML documents
- Supports WTX translations
- Graphic data mapping tool
- Virtually unlimited file size (up to 50 gigabytes)
- Validation of inbound and outbound data based on HIPAA rules defined for Level 1 – Level 6
- Intelligent (content-based) routing
- Interoperable with .Net 1.1/2.0, Axis 1.x/2.0, Xfire 1.2.6 and Java EES
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| Community management | - Manage and grow trading partner communities
- Centralized visibility into trading partner communities
- Reduce error rates
- Digital certificates deployment
- Customizable partner configuration
- Intelligent onboarding with partner self-provisioning
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| Application extension and customization | - Web services: Support for SOAP, WDSL
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Tool to speed custom app/dev work
- Software Development Kit (SDK): Toolkit to create your own adapters to systems
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| Back-end connectivity adapters | - Enterprise applications
- SAP (BAPI, IDOC, and Netweaver), Oracle, PeopleSoft, Vantive, IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®, IBM® Sterling Connect:Enterprise®
- EAI messaging platforms
- IBM WebSphere MQ, Oracle AQ, BEA Tuxedo, TIBCO Rendezvous, Microsoft MSMQ, JMS Queue and Topic
- Technology
- JDBC, CORBA, LDAP, command line, file system, EJB, RMI, SNMP trap, JCA, IM (Instant Messaging)
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| Mobility | IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator Mobile provides monitoring and management of Sterling Integrator processes and status from a mobile digital device, including system status, database growth, and average business process wait time. - Monitoring with alerts for Sterling Integrator resources including system status, database growth and average business wait time
- Run or restart any failed or halted business process
- Initiate key functions such as manage lock resolution for users and resources, initiate thread/ heap dumps and turn logging on and off
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