Product
IBM STERLING
B2B INTEGRATOR
Integrate your most important B2B processes, transactions, and relationships
1 gateway + 1 platform = multiple B2B processes
IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator helps companies integrate all their complex B2B and EDI processes across partner communities in a single gateway. It provides a flexible platform, available on premises or through hybrid cloud, that supports data transformation and most communication protocols; secures your B2B network and data; provides certified container support; and achieves high availability for operations with IBM Sterling Global Mailbox. B2B Integrator enables you to reduce costs by consolidating on a single platform and automating B2B processes across enterprises, while providing governance, adherence to standards and visibility for those processes.
Benefits of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator:
High-availability B2B operations
High-availability gateway platform built for the most demanding environments, with global mailbox options for geographic distribution and real-time data replication.
Reduce installation and patch time
Significantly reduce installation and patch time from hours to minutes by deploying your solution with a certified container that has all required components.
Easily connect with partners
Centralize onboarding and easily connect to all your business partners, regardless of size, geography or chosen technologies.
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator enables you to:
Gain visibility into business partner communities, regardless of the partner’s size, geography or choice of technology.
Manage and grow trading partner communities using one centralized system.
Use a graphical process modeling tool, a business process execution engine and process abstraction (layered modeling and component reuse) to support business processes.
Customize partner configurations.
Deploy digital certificates.
Provide identity management features, including authorization and authentication.Use a firewall configuration that adds layers of protection between a corporate intranet and a public network.
Utilize role-based data access and system operation and a security-rich mailbox repository.
Provide security-rich data transport through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell/Secure File Transport Protocol (SSH/SFTP).
Support data encryption through Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) technologies.
Support a range of B2B communication protocols, including: web services (SOAP), S/FTP/S client and server, HTTP and HTTP/S, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Applicability Statement 1 (AS1), AS2, AS3, AS4, RosettaNet, Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Zengin TCP/IP and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct®.
Use policy-based file transfers.
Work with file sizes of up to 50 gigabytes.
Provide Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) compatibility.
Enable “Always on” trading partner comms with an optional AS2 and AS4 high performance and high availability architecture
Use a multipurpose data transformation engine that supports traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) and XML formats and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) service.
Support IBM WebSphere® Transformation Extender (WTX) translations and provide a graphic data mapping tool.
Work with an integrated development environment (IDE) tool to create custom applications faster.
Use a software development kit (SDK) toolkit to create your own adapters for systems.
Employ back-end connectivity adapters for enterprise applications, enterprise application integration (EAI) messaging platforms and various technology protocols and formats.
Manage and monitor Sterling Integrator processes from a mobile device, including system status, database growth and average business process wait time.
Deliver alerts about Sterling Integrator resources, including system status, database growth and average business wait time.
Run or restart failed or halted business processes.
Initiate key functions such as manage lock resolution for users and resources; initiate thread and heap dumps; and turn logging on and off.
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