Sterling B2B Integrator

Sterling B2B Integrator provides your organization with a unique, custom-designed solution that can integrate you with all of your business partners, no matter who those business partners may be. Manage and monitor your most complex business relationships with capabilities that include:

Security

• Identity management, including authorization and authentication
• Perimeter security at DMZ traversal
• Role-based data access and system operation
• Secured mailboxing repository
• Data transport security (SSL, SFTP/SSH) and data encryption (S/MIME and PGP) support
• Non-repudiation using the AS2 or AS3 protocol
• Digital signature support
• Message- and transport-level security based on WS-Security 1.0 compliance, including WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and Basic Security Profile 1.0

Communication

• B2B communication protocols: Web services (SOAP), S/FTP/S client and server, HTTP and HTTP/S, SMTP, AS1, AS2, AS3 and RosettaNet, WebDAV, Zengin TCP/IP, IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®
• Policy-based file transfer
• Multi-gigabyte file handling
• IPv6 compatible

Business process management

• Graphical process modeling tool
• Business process execution engine
• Process abstraction (layered modeling and component reuse)

Integration and transformation

• Multi-purpose data transformation engine
  • Traditional EDI: X12, EDIFACT, CII, TRADACOMS, and Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA)
  • XML standards: OAGi, CIDX, PIDX, and RosettaNet
  • Internet standards for B2B data exchange: RosettaNet RNIF, ebXML, 1SYNC, and EBICS (France)
  • XSLT service to transform XML documents
• Supports WTX translations
• Graphic data mapping tool
• Virtually unlimited file size (up to 50 gigabytes)
• Validation of inbound and outbound data based on HIPAA rules defined for Level 1 – Level 6
• Intelligent (content-based) routing
• Interoperable with .Net 1.1/2.0, Axis 1.x/2.0, Xfire 1.2.6 and Java EES

Community management

• Manage and grow trading partner communities
• Centralized visibility into trading partner communities
• Reduce error rates
• Digital certificates deployment
• Customizable partner configuration
• Intelligent onboarding with partner self-provisioning

Application extension and customization

• Web services: Support for SOAP, WDSL
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Tool to speed custom app/dev work
• Software Development Kit (SDK): Toolkit to create your own adapters to systems

Back-end connectivity adapters

A comprehensive library of more than 300 available adapters for:

• Enterprise applications
  • SAP (BAPI, IDOC, and Netweaver), Oracle, Manugistics, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vantive, JD Edwards, I2, IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®, IBM® Sterling Connect:Enterprise®, IBM® Sterling Gentran:Server®, GXS, IBM
• EAI messaging platforms
  • IBM WebSphere MQ, Oracle AQ, BEA Tuxedo, TIBCO Rendezvous, Vitria Businessware,WebMethods Enterprise, Microsoft MSMQ, JMS Queue and Topic
• Technology
  • JDBC, CORBA, LDAP, command line, file system, EJB, RMI, SNMP trap, IBM CICS, JCA CCI, SSO, JSA, IM (Instant Messaging)

Mobility

IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator Mobile provides monitoring and management of Sterling Integrator processes and status from a mobile digital device, including system status, database growth, and average business process wait time.

• Monitoring with alerts for Sterling Integrator resources including system status, database growth and average business wait time
• Run or restart any failed or halted business process
• Initiate key functions such as manage lock resolution for users and resources, initiate thread/ heap dumps and turn logging on and off