JCommerce Document Broker

The JCommerce Document Broker provides an intelligent B2B infrastructure to rapidly automate information flows, optimize business processes and integrate back-end applications, by bridging technology gaps between data formats, networks and protocols. JCommerce Document Broker allows companies to

  • Connect with customers, suppliers, E-marketplaces, and business partners, using any network or network protocol
  • Integrate information flows directly into back-end applications like ERP- and CRM-systems, translating data with unknown flexibility
  • Manage business processes throughout the extended enterprise, from end to end, through a web browser

B2B integration efforts trace their origin to a rather basic wish: "If I only could get/send data from/to my partner's application automatically entered/exported in/out of my system". As discussed above B2B integration is application integration extended outside a single company. A B2B framework is document-focused and this approach allows trading partners to communicate based on an agreed-upon set of standard documents that encapsulate the information required for a step in a business process.

Most companies today looking for an automated document exchange (=B2B integration - document-based E-business) solution face a myriad of technical choices. A large portion of present business is conducted by sending and receiving documents to and from trading partners. Companies focus primarily on the exchange of business transactions (documents) from one company to another. Information is extracted from an application, transformed into a neutral data format, then sent to the partner.

Critical mass

Today's E-business initiatives are reaching critical mass. In a few years, highly automated business processes between trading partners will produce more tightly coupled supply chains that mesh so closely that they function almost as an entity. Information will flow from end to end, allowing these specialized organizations the flexibility to accommodate shifting demands. Clearly, companies must go beyond simply meeting the individual demands of their partners and create an E-business strategy that will optimize their business relationships as well as drive effectiviness and efficiency into their own supply chain.

Fortunately, solutions that will enable them to “have it all" exist today. With the JCommerce Document Broker, Aditel offers a complete E-business integration platform that delivers the exchange infrastructure needed to connect to every partner in the extended enterprise.


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