Digital business-to-business integration services (B2Bi) are critical for growth. With Axway Digital B2B Integration, your data integration network will be ready to uncover and exploit new customer engagement opportunities, while streamlining IT Operations to meet the scalability and flexibility demands of today’s data-rich economy.
Axway's business-to-business integration, or B2Bi, has been foundational for large enterprise interactions within the enterprise, along the supply value chain, and throughout the trading community for years. In today's fiercely competitive world, companies are expected to be more agile and responsive, while the volume and complexity of data continue to grow annually. To meet these challenges, Axway has invested resources in developing a comprehensive B2B solution that scales with these expanding needs.
Before delving into what sets Axway's solution apart, it's crucial to understand B2B solutions in general, particularly within specific vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, and logistics. B2Bi facilitates the transfer and integration of files across a wide range of formats and transports them using numerous protocols, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily. It enables any-to-any exchanges between applications and partners.
The diagram provided offers a conceptual overview of various trading patterns. Traditionally, applications have operated within private networks, although there's a shift toward hybrid architectures. In basic exchanges between applications and B2Bi, no specific packaging or enveloping is typically required. Applications typically use native or standard formats like XML, JSON, or proprietary flat file formats.
Partnerships involve secure transport and may include trading EDI documents that require specific processing such as transformation, enveloping, splitting, and handling functional acknowledgments. B2Bi, within a hub-and-spoke communication architecture, can be configured for any combination of message flows: A to A, A to B, B to A, and B to B.
In these exchanges, Axway's B2Bi serves as the central edge on which global enterprises rely for internal operations and interactions with customers and partners alike. Axway stands out by offering the same robust solution in both on-premise and managed service settings. This dual capability allows customers to outsource their infrastructure without sacrificing functionality or undergoing costly and time-consuming refactoring processes.
