Axway's Leadership Position in B2B Standards Will Benefit the Global Business Community

HONG KONG - Axway, a leading global provider of collaborative business solutions, will be sharing with its customers and partners the global views on the emerging innovations in business collaboration technologies and standards at the Park Lane Hotel on December 9, 2009.

The proliferation of business-to-business (B2B) standards across industries is creating confusion and concern among the business community. The similarities and differences between B2B standards, like EDINIT, AS1, AS2, SOAP, ebXML and W3C, and the significant overlap in functionality between these different standards becomes a real challenge for organizations in pursuit of a right solution for their e-commerce business goals.

"Standards are an important component of the customers' integration strategies. They must have the flexibility to interoperate with all their business partners across various industries, thus making business collaboration easier, faster, and more effective to achieve business values such as increased revenue, lower costs, and improved quality," said Dr. Dale Moberg, chief architect of Axway, and the key speaker for the coming event on 'Global Standards Update' at the Hong Kong's Park Lane Hotel.

In addition to discussing some innovative standards that address event driven architectures, business collaboration protocols, and semantic alignment of business documents (UNCEFACT), Moberg will also address specific questions that customers have concerning standardization. "Understanding the key business and technology issues impacting the use of B2B standards from the viewpoint of customers is critical as this feedback will enable us to further enhance our solutions and services to meet their needs," said Moberg.

"Holding regular sessions like this with our customers and partners to share the global technology standards update is not only enriching, but is also a valuable forum to solicit feedback for us to drive improvements," said Andy Wilkinson, senior vice president, Axway Asia Pacific.

"A market leader in B2B solutions, Axway has long been an active contributor to the various B2B standards, which are required to enable customers to realize the business and technical benefits of integration between business partners. Supporting a wide variety of standards, Axway's Synchrony™ B2Bi Gateway helps customers to quickly and efficiently adapt to the ever-changing requirements in order to support their businesses," said Wilkinson.

Axway B2Bi Gateway provides a single, comprehensive solution to manage trading exchanges across today's complex array of B2B standards, formats and protocols. It expands on the role of the traditional integration broker by linking enterprise systems and applications, not only to provide support for EDI, but also for emerging XML-based frameworks and EDIINT. This combined capability helps organizations to reduce operating and support costs, and also provides a solid platform for future growth in both volume and transactions.

For more information about Axway's Synchrony for B2B solutions, please visit our website at: www.axway.com/solutions/technology/b2b_gateway.php

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.