EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
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EDI (electronic data interchange) involves the electronic exchange of business information between trading partners using a public standard format. EDI provides a common language for formatting business transactions and facilitates business-to-business integration through the flow of standardized electronic transactions between businesses and trading partners.
CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)™, from Proginet, provides a complete solution to address all aspects of EDI. The CFI Suite is made up of the following components:
- » CFI Commerce Server: Commerce Server is a full-featured EDI solution designed to allow organizations to seamlessly send and receive business documents with its trading partners, transform the documents in accordance with their own particular industry specification, and update its internal systems automatically.
- » CFI Internet Server: Internet Server provides the connectivity between your CFI Commerce Server and your suppliers, providing you with the flexibility of communicating with your business partners via their preferred mechanism, whether it via VAN, or over the Internet using AS2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP or HTTPS.
- » CFI Platform Server: Platform Server provides the connectivity between the CFI Commerce Server and your internal systems such as ERP or POS systems.
- » CFI Command Center: Command Center provides centralized administration of all aspects of the CFI environment. Within this browser-based environment, administrators can easily track and control all aspects of information movement and transformation. CFI Command Center also allows you to easily identify problems with incoming or outgoing business documents and resolve the issues quickly.
CFI facilitates lights out, unattended operations to completely audit, track, manage and control the movement of EDI business documents. Its event driven alert management system audits the movement of every critical EDI transaction from the time the business document is generated until it is received and acknowledged by your trading partner.
CFI for EDI - Key Benefits:
- » Cost Savings: traditionally, EDI has used VANs and lease lines to transmit data. These are expensive and not a viable option for many organizations. CFI uses secure protocols including AS2 to transfer EDI documents over the Internet – enabling your company to eliminate expensive VANs and lease lines.
- » End-to-end Automation: CFI addresses all aspects of your EDI strategy and links the various steps seamlessly – secure partner integration over the Web, transformation, and direct connectivity to your internal systems and applications across all platforms, including the Mainframe, AS/400, UNIX, and Windows.
- » Trading Partner Integration: CFI maximizes flexibility, making your organization easier to do business with – partners can connect via all major transfer protocols, including AS2, HTTPs, FTP, FTPS (SSL), and SFTP (SSH).
- » Improved Process Visibility: CFI's Command Center is a browser-based 'virtual dashboard' that gives you visibility over the entire EDI process, as well as 24x7 access to logs, reports, and audits.
- » Supports All File Types: CFI supports all EDI standards (including X12, UNEDIFACT and xCBL) and all file formats (XML, flat files, etc.). In addition, there are no file-size limits.
Contact Proginet today to find out how we can help maximize the success of your EDI initiative using the world's most complete document exchange platform.
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