Security
- Identity management, including authorization and authentication
- Perimeter security at DMZ traversal
- Role-based data access and system operation
- Secured mailboxing repository
- Data transport security (SSL, SFTP/SSH) and data encryption (S/MIME and PGP) support
- Non-repudiation using the AS2 or AS3 protocol
- Digital signature support
- Message- and transport-level security based on WS-Security 1.0 compliance, including WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and Basic Security Profile 1.0
Communication
- B2B communication protocols: Web services (SOAP), S/FTP/S client and server, HTTP and HTTP/S, SMTP, AS1, AS2, AS3 and RosettaNet, WebDAV, Zengin TCP/IP, IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®
- Policy-based file transfer
- Multi-gigabyte file handling
- IPv6 compatible
Business process management
- Graphical process modeling tool
- Business process execution engine
- Process abstraction (layered modeling and component reuse)
Integration and transformation
- Multi-purpose data transformation engine
- Traditional EDI: X12, EDIFACT, CII, TRADACOMS, and Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA)
- XML standards: OAGi, CIDX, PIDX, and RosettaNet
- Internet standards for B2B data exchange: RosettaNet RNIF, ebXML, 1SYNC, and EBICS
- XSLT service to transform XML documents
- Supports WTX translations
- Graphic data mapping tool
- Virtually unlimited file size (up to 50 gigabytes)
- Validation of inbound and outbound data based on HIPAA rules defined for Level 1 – Level 6
- Intelligent (content-based) routing
- Interoperable with .Net 1.1/2.0, Axis 1.x/2.0, Xfire 1.2.6 and Java EES
Community management
- Manage and grow trading partner communities
- Centralized visibility into trading partner communities
- Reduce error rates
- Digital certificates deployment
- Customizable partner configuration
- Intelligent onboarding with partner self-provisioning
Application extension and customization
- Web services: Support for SOAP, WDSL
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Tool to speed custom app/dev work
- Software Development Kit (SDK): Toolkit to create your own adapters to systems
Back-end connectivity adapters
- Enterprise applications
- SAP (BAPI, IDOC, and Netweaver), Oracle, PeopleSoft, Vantive, IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct®, IBM® Sterling Connect:Enterprise®
- EAI messaging platforms
- IBM WebSphere MQ, Oracle AQ, BEA Tuxedo, TIBCO Rendezvous, Microsoft MSMQ, JMS Queue and Topic
- Technology
- JDBC, CORBA, LDAP, command line, file system, EJB, RMI, SNMP trap, JCA, IM (Instant Messaging)
Mobility
IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator Mobile provides monitoring and management of Sterling Integrator processes and status from a mobile digital device, including system status, database growth, and average business process wait time.
- Monitoring with alerts for Sterling Integrator resources including system status, database growth and average business wait time
- Run or restart any failed or halted business process
- Initiate key functions such as manage lock resolution for users and resources, initiate thread/ heap dumps and turn logging on and off

