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SEAMLESSLY GROW TRADING COMMUNITIES THROUGH

KEY BENEFITS A SINGLE B2B GATEWAY
Businesses have begun to automate transactions with trading partners at an increasing rate,
• Seamlessly grow trading
embracing new solutions and technologies to broaden access electronically to their trading
communities by automating
community and gain visibility into transactions across the trading community. As they seek deeper
support for on-ramping of
levels of collaboration, they soon realize the enormous costs to support diverse trading partners,
new trading partners and
industry-specific data and security standards, diverse technologies, on boarding and increasing
easily managing growing
expansion of the trading community. To meet these challenges, most companies are looking for
communities of trading a central “gateway” to efficiently on-board multiple trading partners and seamlessly integrate
partners. trading partners into their enterprise integration architecture.
• Achieve real-time business-
to-business integration webMethods Trading Networks, powered by a SOA, is a comprehensive and scalable trading
gateway solution that provides complete business process automation, monitoring and analysis.
through comprehensive and
Enabling you to integrate and manage your trading partners, assemble trading partner business
robust standards enabling
processes and link related documents that can be reliably monitored, to provide a unified business
real-time information exchange
level view of the information exchanged. webMethods Trading Networks is an intelligent, high-
with businesses of any size and
performance document processing engine. webMethods Trading Networks supports partner
technical capability.
integration and B2B transport functionality across all trading partners, technologies and business
• Consolidate deployments processes. This allows customers to very quickly configure, test and begin trading with partners
through a central B2B with minimal effort. The single gateway allows users to specify and configure any transaction
gateway for all trading payload – from standard EDI transaction to industry-based XML standards to custom Flat File
partners, reducing formats. Flexible support for messaging standards and transports can be set at partner level, giving
infrastructure, people, training customers extreme control of how they communicate with every partner.
and operations costs.
• Streamline trading partner
management through
webMethods Fabric that
provides seamless real-time
integration with external
business partners.
• Ensure secure, reliable
document transfer through
secure EDI over the Internet
using SSL enabling complete
migration of existing EDI VAN
infrastructure to webMethods
Trading Networks.

Centralized B2B. webMethods Trading Networks helps you easily manage an increasing number of trading
partners, document types and complexity. Centralizing the management of XML, EDI and Flat File documents
through a single B2B gateway and enabling you to link related documents into trading partner specific processes.

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SUPPORTED STANDARDS
B2B Standards Support
• EDIINT AS1, AS2 and AS3
• RNIF version 2.0
• ebXML, ebMS version 1.0 and 2.0
XML Standards Support
• RosettaNet version with the latest
PIP transaction using webMethods
PIP Tool
• CIDX version 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 and 3.0
• UCCnet version 3.0
• Transora version 5.0.2
• papiNet version 2.1
Flat File Standards Support
• SWIFT FIN
• SWIFTNet
• FIX
• ACH
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
• Solaris
• HP-UX
• AIX
• Windows
• Linux
• AS/400
webMethods Fabric™
Fabric is a comprehensive business
integration solution that combines
proven integration technology with an
integrated SOA capability. Powered
by Smart Services and Smart Process,
Fabric components are self diagnostic,
predictive and proactive giving
you clear insight into your business
operations creating unprecedented
visibility, efficiency and agility.
About webMethods
webMethods is a leading provider of
business integration and optimization
software to Global 2000 organizations
and government agencies.
webMethods’ comprehensive and
mature business integration product
suite, webMethods Fabric™, enables
our over 1,250 customers to integrate,
assemble and optimize their available IT
assets to increase business
process productivity and power
their big ideas.
FEATURES
Trading Partner Management
• Manages trading partners and documents
• Provides centralized repository of partner
profiles
• Profiles support many types of transports
and locations for sending documents to a
partner
• Includes unique ability to prioritize
transports so that if an HTTPS sent to
a particular partner fails, the backup
transport of encrypted e-mail is
automatically used
• Provides automatic escalation through
prioritized document transport
• Provides partner profiles that can grow to
include hundreds of contacts per partner
separated into groupings such as: LOB
Experts, Technical, Finance, etc.
• Enables delivery of documents between
designated sources and destinations via
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, SOAP,
EDIINT, ebXML and Web services
• Provides group-level, rule-based routing
• Enables customers to send and receive
docs on behalf of the entire group
• Manages secure receipt and delivery of
XML, EDI and Flat File transactions
• Manages customizable Trading Partner
Agreements
• Enables users to configure processing rules
and routing action
• Manages queues for batch-oriented VAN
interactions
Process Lifecycle Management
• Model, monitor and manage business
processes
• Provides complete process management
for both external trading partner and
internal business processes
• Provides complete transaction visibility
from the moment a trading partner sends
a document, through every process step
until the partner has received an answer
• Provides visibility into individual
transactions with a graphical picture
showing which process paths have been
traveled and offers drill-down access into
the data at any completed or in-process
step
• Enables Modeling of full end-to-end
processes that span both internal and
external tasks
• Enables transaction reporting, auditing
and logging
• Provides ability to take corrective or
preventative action
Graphical Mapping and Transformation
• Translates and validates documents
• Builds services, with drag-and-drop
mapping and transformers
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• Translates and map to and from all
document formats
• Leverages out-of-the-box libraries of pre-
built transformation services
• Configures custom integration logic
• Performs graphical debugging and testing
• Provides parsing, validation and error
handling of inbound and outbound XML,
EDI and Flat File payloads
• Develops, debugs, tests and deploys
transformations
• Processes documents in real-time and
batch modes
Dynamic, Rule-based Document Processing
• Defines any EDI, XML or Flat File
document for identification and
processing
• Creates processing rules that execute
based on sender, receiver, content, status
and/or error conditions
• Defines pre-processing logic, including
signature verification, document
validation, duplication checking and
persistence
• Configurable processing action, including
service invocation, alert e-mail, queue for
polling and scheduled delivery
Flexible Transport Framework
• Defines trading partner parameters and
processing rules using any transport
protocol, payload definition and process
• Sets flexible support for messaging
standards and transports at partner level
• Defines custom or industry specific
processes
• Defines transport, routing and packaging
• Defines any payload (EDI, XML, Flat File)
Robust EDI Support
• Core EDI functionality built into platform,
not a separate solution
• Comprehensive standards support
• ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, UCS, VICS,
ODETTE and EANCOM support
• CII support for JPCA, CPSD and EIAJ
• Flexible EDI Processing
• Provides recognition, parsing and
validation of EDI transactions
• Envelopes validation and compliance
• Processes documents in real-time and
batch modes depending on need
• Functional acknowledgements and
reconciliation support
• Duplicates and recognizes out-of-
sequence control number checks
Secure File Transfer
• EDIINT/AS3 certification
• FTP over SSL
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