IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services
Delivering comprehensive business solutions using extensive IBM Sterling B2B standards
Overview
Sterling B2B Integrator supports translation and multiple secured communication protocol configurations to communicate with internal systems or external client applications.
It supports high-volume document exchange on a day-to-day basis. It effortlessly handles complex business validations and routing without any interruption.
It provides a web-based user and administration interface.
Based on a user account, access will be provided for Sterling Integrator Application.
Features of Sterling Integrator
Security
- Perimeter security at DMZ
- Secured mailbox repository.
- Supports SFTP & AS2 communication protocol for data transport security.
- Supports S/MIME & PGP Encryption for data security.
- Identity Management, Role-based system operation, and data access.
- Trading partner onboarding time is less.
- Enabling unlimited document flow with customer and supplier.
- Configuring envelopes for various standards.
- Development of business processes to automate business validations.
- Implementation of flow level configurated to achieve end to end business document exchange.
- Graphical Process Modeler
- Business process execution engine
- Predefined business processes
- Scheduling business process as per client requirement.
- Batch processing
- Input file received from the customer
- Using Deenveloping Service the files will be identified translation map
- The output will be delivered to the folder.
- Internal system will pick up the file from this folder.
- Back end system generated the file.
- BP will pick the file as per schedule.
- The map translates it and then sends the output back to the customer via the preferred communication configuration.
Services – Multiple services could be combined to achieve specific business needs.
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
SFTP – Secured File Transfer Protocol
AS2 (EDIINT) – Applicability Statement 2 Web Services
PGP ( Pretty Good Privacy ) encryption could be used for data security.
- EDI Mapping Tool.
- EDI standards: X12, EDIFACT, CII, TRADACOMS & VDA.
- XML Standards : RosettaNet
- Internet Standards for data exchange: EBICS, RNIF, RosettaNet, ebXML.
- Supports WTX translations
- Effectively designed and scheduled housekeeping processes to properly remove the transactional database entries as per the lifespan of the business process.
- The persistence level is set at the Business process level or activity level in order to have limitations on the level of details updated to transactional database tables.
- Business process monitoring
- Business Process –> Monitor –> Current Process
- Viewing Halted BPs under System –> Troubleshooter –> Business Process Usage.
- Database usage monitoring
- Operations –> System –> Troubleshooter –> Database Usage
- Business process queue usage monitoring
- Troubleshooter –> Business Process Queue Usage.
- Monitoring Threads
- Operations –> System –> Thread Monitor
- Any product-related queries/issues could be raised from Sterling Integrator UI itself.
- The support team email id could be configured in Sterling Integrator. It sends the translation failures, communication failures, and certificate expiration reports to the support team. They will analyze the failure notification and notify the customer or internal teams accordingly.