iWay Software Announces B2B Suite for Complex Trading Environments
06/09/2009
iWay Software, an Information Builders company and provider of enterprise integration solutions, announced the release of iWay Software B2B Suite 6.0, an expanded product that maintains partner agreements and deploys trading relationships across Internet standard protocols.
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The iWay B2B Suite includes an intuitive user interface, extensibility and operability with Information Builders integration and business intelligence (BI) products. The suite enables enterprises to manage B2B communications with multiple partners using any number of different message sets and protocols.
A key component of the new iWay B2B Suite, iWay Trading Partner Manager, manages the information and infrastructure of trading partners by making B2B interactions a natural extension of an organization's application integration efforts. It also simplifies the management of complex environments within an organization.
B2B channels are arteries through which all business flows. A typical company with hundreds of suppliers, consumers and business partners might use hundreds of transaction types, with each transaction including four to eight messages. Organizations with one or two business partners may not find this challenging, but as they add more partners, they need better control over how they interact with them.
iWay Trading Partner Manager, formerly named iWay Trading Manager, features a GUI application and additional run-time capabilities that enable organizations to more easily manage complex environments with many message types, services, communication protocols, security requirements, and more.
The suite includes an Ajax-enabled administration user interface. TPM delivers an interactive application within a visually compelling framework that enables quick and easy management of even the most complex of trading partner environments.
Called automatically at points during the message lifecycle, Audit Manager can be configured to record any stage of message processing. It can be accessed from the Web console for transaction review. The Audit Manager is designed to be extended or replaced depending on business requirements.
Correlation Manager identifies the state of a message (send, technical acknowledgement, satisfaction), what acknowledgments are expected for each message, and whether they have been executed. This can also be used to monitor service-level agreements (SLAs).
Trading Partner Information and Trading Partner Profile Facilities provide access to variables about each trading partner, correlation information, and other important B2B information.