Today's businesses face numerous integration challenges. Internally, they must connect disparate systems to leverage their infrastructure investments, control IT management costs, support emerging industry standards and maintain system and asset security. Externally, businesses must connect with trading partners to widen their supply chain, create new services and accelerate time-to-market schedules. Improving business-to-business (B2B) relationships through process integration is a key requirement for successful companies to increase return on investment (ROI) and transform their business into an effective e-business.
You can implement a successful B2B integration infrastructure that connects you to your trading partners with Universal Business Connector ® , Automate your supply chain. Participate in an industry-wide trading exchange. Implement e-procurement. Or extend new services that help lower operational costs and create new business opportunities. Your company and your trading partners can benefit from the reduced integration costs and faster deployment of new processes and services using open standards and proven technology.
The Universal Business Connector provides a scalable set of offerings that link your business to trading partners using industry-standard and Web services protocols:
• Universal Business Connector accommodates unlimited Web services-based connections and supports a wide
range of industry protocols, along with a powerful process integration engine and available library of pre-built business processes
• Universal Business Connector supports EDIFACT X.12 document types and enables electronic document interchange (EDI) over the Internet.
Start with a small investment
Start simple with the low-cost Web services connections offered by Universal Business Connector and grow to support additional connectivity requirements and more complex business processes. The inter-operability with Business Integration ‘Hub' solutions from vendors such as IBM, BEA and Microsoft makes it ideal for use in Retail integration scenarios where Retail Store applications (POS, Financial & Inventory Applications, etc.) can be seamlessly integrated with Universal Business Connector as a ‘Spoke' solution to the back-end EAI infrastructure supporting corporate ERP and Supply Chain applications such as SAP, Oracle, I2, etc. Universal Business Connector enables a virtual network of trading partners to integrate with each other in a peer-to-peer network as well as with your enterprise in a hub-and-spoke implementation and enhances the long-term value of your retail network.
Scalable offerings for future value
Universal Business Connector allows you to focus on implementing B2B projects whether they are simple or complex. Trading partners can deploy software to solve today's integration needs and grow to add partners and implement more business processes as needed. With these secure, scalable offerings, you can help ensure future value through long-term availability, open standards and a full range of Cnetric service and support. Universal Business Connector offerings can help you:
• Accelerate e-business initiatives with customers, suppliers, trading partners and employees.
• Improve ROI and operational efficiency with low- implementation cost, speedy deployment and a range of functional and pricing models.
• Create a collaborative business integration environment that allows you to do more with less, increase productivity, and form deeper relationships with trading partners
• Provide a growth path for business processes through pre-built packages of industry-specific processes.
• Implement fast deployment for small trading partners.
• Create opportunities for competitive advantage, such as integration with business intelligence, supply chain partners, procurement providers, outsourcing services and customer relationship management (CRM) services. |
