Axway Introduces Automated Provisioning Services Offering

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Axway Inc., a leading provider of collaborative business solutions, today introduced Provisioning Services, a self-service onboarding solution that enables customers to automatically establish connections to business-to-business (B2B) communities.

Axway Provisioning Services offers enterprises a number of advantages that accelerate the growth of B2B trading communities by rapidly deploying Axway's EndPoint: Activator connections. It features a self-service technology infrastructure and automated on-boarding methodology that reduces errors, lowers support costs, and reduces burdens on operations.

Modern organizations face two logistical challenges when they build and maintain B2B trading communities: deploying and configuring the initial communication software and managing trading artifacts across the community members. Axway's Provisioning Services offering was developed to address these issues.

"Axway's Provisioning Services offers a rapid way to create B2B trading communities that requires little configuration, deploys in just minutes, and has minimal Professional Services requirements," said Rohit Khanna, Axway's senior vice president of North America & UK consulting and professional services. "The offering provides a diversity of related services for new EndPoint software deployments, updating existing EndPoint installations, updating and synchronizing certificates, applying software patches, and installing or updating custom code." Axway offers several EndPoint solutions, based on customer needs. The current Provisioning Services offering deploys Synchrony EndPoint: Activator. Future versions will deploy all other Axway Synchrony EndPoints.

Axway Provisioning Services includes the following highlights:

• Portal-driven provisioning: A branded Web portal or internal application offers Axway EndPoint downloads to authorize trading partners. Once authorized, it starts the provisioning process.
• Provisioning Services enables tailored ramping processes: The service is a Web- service implementation used to assemble a customized ramping methodology that meets the customer's business needs.
• The customer controls the EndPoint software configuration: The application downloaded by the partner is pre-configured. This eliminates costly configuration errors and provides the enterprise customer with full control over the EndPoint.
• Monitoring of the entire provisioning process: Provisioning Services provides status information for each partner, at each step of provisioning. This enables accurate, real-time campaign management and monitoring, either through custom monitoring tools or a built-in connector to Sentinel, Axway's business activity monitoring solution.
• Automated registration via Web services: A Web service application running at the hub processes the EndPoint registration in an automated manner. This enables real-time onboarding.

Provisioning Services is offered both as a licensed software tool and in a SaaS model. "EndPoint provisioning and related services are among the many cloud computing services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings provided by Axway," adds Khanna.

"In today's challenging environment, our customers require more and more dynamic capabilities in their trading communities — collective innovation is a key driver for them, and rapid provisioning is critical to their success," said Dave Bennett, Axway's chief technology officer. "Our new Provisioning Services offering creates, automates, and extends their ecosystems to become much more agile."

To learn more about Axway's B2B integration solutions, visit www.axway.com/b2bi

About Axway

Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.