Advance Business Collaborator (ABC)
Transform the Way Your Business Handles EDI
Advanced Business Collaborator (ABC) is an Intel based, stand-alone EDI software suite specifically designed to satisfy most if not all our clients communication, data transformation and systems Integration requirements. Easy to use and low cost.
It is a highly flexible EDI management solution that facilitates business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce messaging, capable of converting data between in-house data formats to the formats required by external trading partners, e.g. standard EDI formats, XML, CSV, etc.
Simplify How You Share and Store Data
Useful for distributing information from electronic documents quickly and efficiently to external trading partners and people within your organization who need it, and can even be used as a means of maintaining an electronic document archive.
If you wish to trade electronically with your customers and/or suppliers, either up or down your supply chain, or simply need to send data securely and auditably between disparate systems, you need look no further for an easy to use, cost effective, state of the art solution to meet all your business needs.
Key Features of Advance Business Collaborator:
Key Features of Advance Business Collaborator:
Data Transformation:
When important business documents either enter or leave the business, they have to be transformed into or out of the trading partner’s document format (sometimes multiple formats). Advanced Business Collaborator’s powerful transformation engine can manage multiple conversions of a single document using XML as the intermediary format. Each one of these can then be integrated into other applications, before continuing with the normal document processing routine, e.g. Invoices can be transformed into a standard in-house format and archived before processing.
Systems Integration:
This same capability can be used to integrate different applications within the same business, taking output from one application and transforming it into a format for another application prior to secure delivery. Advanced Business Collaborator can also be set up to initiate other programs automatically. For example, via an API, it can initiate a program on another machine, instructing it to collect and process a newly transformed file of data.
Workflow:
For users requiring an ability to take intelligent action on incoming or outgoing documents (different views or formats for different applications) the Advance-Workflow module (business rules router) contained within Advanced Business Collaborator should suit all your business needs. Using simple instructions for every document that passes through Advanced Business Collaborator, each document (based on trading partner, document type and document direction) can be transformed and routed, via numerous routes, into other applications, either internally or externally.
Secure & Auditable Communications:
By using Advanced Business Collaborator, companies can manage communications interface through to their trading community via trading partner profiles. Advanced Business Collaborator will manage multiple messages, partners and communication routes, including the following communications protocols:
- AS1 (secure and auditable email based EDI over the Internet)
- AS2 (secure and auditable server to server EDI over the Internet)
- EDI VANS (High speed VPN connection)
- FTP/SFTP/FTPS (File Transfer Protocol/Secure FTP using SSH/Secure FTP using implicit SSL)
- Secure Email
- Gateways to closed business communities
Features summary:
- Multi-Format Transformation Engine (XML, EDI, HTML, CSV, Flat File, JSON).
- Powerful Integration capability.
- Data Validation “In document”.
- API’s (application program interface) to initiate other applications.
- Intelligent Document Routing.
- Advanced Workflow functionality.
- Delivers data compliant to stringent US SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) requirements.
- Fully audited and encrypted data transmissions.
Hardware & Software Dependencies:
There are no specific hardware or software dependencies. Advanced Business Collaborator will operate successfully on most current Intel based laptops or machines running MS Windows 10 or above with Internet access and a SMTP email account. It is advisable to have an external hard drive or similar for system backups and a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel that can process .CSV files. The latter is required if it is intended to use the “spreadsheet view” when displaying incoming or outgoing messages.
ABC Messaging Process Flow:
If your company has a customer or supplier community it would like to trade with electronically, via a secure and auditable route, gaining all the associated benefits, such as: simplified trading processes, reduced costs and an improved, more responsive supply chain, then please come and talk to us.
For further details and pricing, please contact us on: +44 (0)1932 230024 or e-mail: enquiries@advancefirst.com
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