Axway Simplifies Complex Partner and Customer Interactions with Packaged Solution

PHOENIX - July 13, 2010 – Axway, the Business Interaction Networks company, has released a single packaged offering that delivers the industry’s most comprehensive integration and managed file transfer (MFT) solution for all business-to-business (B2B) interaction patterns.  For organizations looking to consolidate their infrastructure and integrate with trading partners, customers, suppliers, etc., Axway B2Bi provides increased visibility, efficiency and data reliability at the lowest total cost of ownership for enterprises of any size.  Only Axway extends the full complement of file and message services including policy, data security and community management.

“CIOs have historically looked to derive value from their data center operations but recently, that focus has expanded to include multi-enterprise processes to make them more responsive to customer and partner needs,” said Maureen Fleming, program director, business process management and middleware, IDC.  “This increased investment and scrutiny has elevated the B2B market and brought a number of integration issues to the forefront.  These challenges are being tackled in a number of ways, including solutions based on community standards such as EDI, private ecosystems and cloud based offerings.”

Axway B2Bi, based on service oriented architecture, establishes, secures and manages information flow in ecosystems consisting of numerous tightly connected organizations, such as partners, customers, financial institutions and suppliers.  In the face of this complexity, Axway B2Bi provides a single solution architecture integrating electronic data interchange (EDI), enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and in-house applications in a centralized, easy-to-use interface for comprehensive management of and visibility into critical business interactions.  Axway B2Bi also leverages Axway’s powerful MFT capabilities, making it a unique market solution that offers both message and file-based B2B transactions.

In order to process 80 percent of the world’s mail, International Postage Corporation (IPC) was looking to implement a more flexible and simplified mechanism for managing its 200,000 daily EDI transactions.  “Axway’s solution is the foundation of our business.  We cannot afford to miss a single transaction.  Axway’s system enables us to offer full traceability in our complex EDI infrastructure to ensure that payments between posts are based on complete and accurate data,” stated Johan Van den bergh, head of systems technology, IPC.

Axway supports the B2B interactions of some of the world’s largest companies - including P&G, ING and Electrolux - managing high volumes of transactions spanning tens of thousands of trading partners.  Axway’s B2B solutions are currently deployed in many industries and organizations across the globe, including financial services, healthcare, automotive, supply chain and public sector organizations. 

“Traditionally, IT management of business interactions – whether they be MFT, security or traditional B2B integration – have been siloed, preventing essential cross-functional governance and security,” said Christophe Fabre, CEO of Axway.  “We are unique in that we have core competencies in all these interaction patterns.  Our aim is to bring to market solutions that simplify them for our customers.  Axway B2Bi is one example of that effort.”

Axway B2Bi facilitates the following:

• Secure B2B communications – Consistent with Axway’s long-time leadership in industry standards, Axway B2Bi solution support a wide variety of B2B messaging formats and protocols, including EDI, XML, OFTP2, EDI-INT (AS1/AS2/AS3), ebXML, RosettaNet and HTTP/S, FTP/S.  Axway B2Bi supports all major security standards, including S/MIME, SSL, PGP and OCSP.
• Community management – An easy-to-use interface and automated endpoint fulfillment enables member self-service on-boarding and enrollment, partner service level agreement (SLA) tracking, testing and endpoint management.
• WebEDI – Connect with technically challenged partners using Axway’s forms-based Web application that provides standard EDI business processes to external partners who do not have their own EDI infrastructures.
• End-to-end visibility – An event-based architecture supports transaction and process tracking and reporting for business and technical users, as well as analytics and lifecycle management – within and beyond the enterprise.
• Application integration – File and message brokering, including support for file-based integration, e-mail application integration, HTTP, FTP (client) and MQ Series.  Also supports secure and reliable file-based application integration.  Axway B2Bi also provides application connectivity, including support for Oracle, Lawson and SAP (certified interfaces).
• Out-of-the-box EDI support, exception management and document handling – Axway B2Bi solution supports EDI out of the box, minimizing installation and set-up time and costs.
• MFT capabilities – Support for service-oriented “file bus”-like services includes logical naming of services to provide an abstraction of platform idiosyncrasies and file transfer details, as well as inherent routing, store-and-forward and automation and acknowledgement services (technical and application level).  Includes support for system-to-system, business-to-business and person-to-person interactions.
• Multiple deployment options – B2Bi appliance, hosted, on-premise and through managed services.

More information on Axway B2Bi can be found at: http://www.axway.com/products-solutions/b2b/b2bi-solutions.

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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.