Axway Uses SOA To Simplify B2B Integration Among Partners, Customers 
Axway is shipping B2Bi, a SOA-based packaged solution to help companies simplify their complex interactions with their customers, suppliers and partners.
Axway is shipping B2Bi, a SOA-based packaged solution to help companies simplify their complex interactions with their customers, suppliers and partners.
Axway’s B2Bi, which stands for Business-to-Business integration, aims to make organizations more efficient, gives them increased visibility and makes their data more reliable, according to officials. It also helps them better utilize their data center operations and makes them more responsive to the needs of their customers and partners, according to officials.
Axway’s B2Bi features include:
- Secure B2B connectivity and communications that supports all popular B2B messaging protocols, (EDI-INT, OFTP, ebXML, RosettaNet, Web services, HTTP/S, FTP/S, X.400 TCP/IP, X.25, ISDN and others).
- Internal/back-end integration that supports file and messaging brokers that use JMS, JDBC, file-based Integration, HTTP, FTP (client), SMTP, MIME, and MQ Series.
- Wizard-based community management to quickly set-up and manage secure communications and process flows with partners.
- Out-of-the-box support for EDI and document handling
- Eclipse interface for mapping design, transformation, translation, validation, integration, and reporting services
Based on SOA architectures, Axway B2Bi offers companies a single architecture that integrates EDI, ERP and home-grown in-house applications with a “centralized” interface. The result is that users can have visibility into and manage their critical business interactions, according to Axway officials.
One Axway B2Bi customer is International Postal Corporation (IPC), a cooperative of 24 postal organizations. The group, whose organizations are responsible for delivering up to 80% of the world’s mail, is using Axway B2Bi to monitor and upgrade its EDI services, and end user experience, according to IPC’s head of systems technology Johan Van den bergh,
“[IPC] cannot afford to miss a single transaction. Axway’s system enables us to offer full traceability in our complex EDI infrastructure to ensure that payments between posts are based on complete and accurate data,” Van den bergh said in a statement
