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WebSphere Transformation Extender Industry Packs
WebSphere® Transformation Extender Industry Packs provide out-of-the-box capabilities to integrate a range of industry standard data formats with your enterprise infrastructure. Industry Packs enable developers to accelerate the delivery of transformation solutions by providing predefined type tree templates, conversion maps, and in some cases provide validation maps and tools to remove risk from projects that require conformance to mandatory and advisory guidelines required by the regulatory body or industry service provider.
WebSphere Transformation Extender Industry Packs used in conjunction with WebSphere Transformation Extender, a universal data transformation engine, provide organizations with an infrastructure that:
Enables compliance with government and industry mandates.
Controls administrative costs.
Streamlines business processes.
Facilitates accuracy and timeliness of information.
Reuses existing business systems.
Adapts to new technologies as they emerge.
Integrates multiple systems and standards.
Automates cross-organizational exchanges.
Financial Services
FIX (Financial Information eXchange Protocol)
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for FIX delivers prebuilt data transformation content for the FIX Protocol. FIX is a set of message specifications for automated trading of financial instruments and is used as a standard format in straight-through-processing and collaboration scenarios by banks, brokers, dealers, and market makers, including the foreign exchange markets. Originally conceived in 1992, FIX formats are available in both older tag=value, and XML (FIXML), both DTD and XML Schema based. The Pack supports version 4.0 through 4.4, and 5.0 of these formats.
NACHA( National Automated Clearing House Association)
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for NACHA delivers templates for 2007 Automated Clearing House (ACH) compliant message exchange used throughout North America for electronic payments. More checks are also now processed as ACH transfers. The most common uses of ACH are online bill payment, mortgage and loan repayment, and direct deposit of payroll. Like many older financial formats ACH is in an 'envelope' structure consisting of a file header/trailer, batch header/trailer and detailed transaction records. This pack delivers validation using the guidance provided by NACHA. Maps are included for conversion of Cash Concentration and Dispersion (CCD) and Corporate Trading Exchange (CTX) ACH formats, with examples for handling ACH acknowledgements and returns.
SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area)
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for SEPA helps banks and financial institutions meet their compliance obligations to the European Union initiative to have a pan-European electronic payments infrastructure. It includes templates for SEPA credit transfers and direct debits, mapping between SEPA and SWIFT message type103 as well as validation for European Payment Councils SEPA implementation guidelines. Additional converter examples for mapping MT101, 102, 102+, 103+ SWIFT message types to SEPA credit transfer messages are included, and additional validation updates implemented from the European Payment Council guidelines.
SWIFT
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for SWIFT provides support for SRG 2011 and SWIFTNet Fin updates including ISO 20022 and ISO 15022 data dictionaries for MT-MX message coexistence and the complete catalog of SWIFT messages and SWIFT business rules.
In addition to templates and maps, it includes validation to ensure messages conform to SWIFT message standards, delivery monitoring, and prioritization of message storage and retrieval. Samples are included for Swift Alliance Access (SAA) headers for SWIFTNet Phase 2.
As part of SWIFT Partnership framework, the SWIFTReady certification program certifies the SWIFT-compliance of third-party financial applications that complement SWIFT’s value proposition. Certified applications are awarded a SWIFTReady Application label following their functional and technical compliance with SWIFT standards, messaging services and connectivity. Designed to reflect an application’s ability to provide automation in a SWIFT environment, the application label is based on a dedicated set of SWIFT-specific certification criteria (link resides outside of ibm.com) that are re-evaluated annually.
Healthcare
WTX Pack for HIPAA EDI
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) addresses the administrative simplification aspects of HIPAA legislation - the standardization of electronic patient health, administrative, and financial data. The WebSphere TX Pack for HIPAA EDI provides ready-to-execute template definitions and compliance validation checking for the complete ASC X12N HIPAA standard as well as 4010 and 5010 flat file formats for Professional and Institutional Claims and Coordination of Benefits.
WTX Pack for HL7
Health Level Seven is an ANSI-accredited standards organization operating in the healthcare arena. HL7's domain is clinical data. HL7 produces standards for the exchange, management, and integration of data, intended to promote interoperability between healthcare information systems. WTX Pack for HL7 includes HL7 versions 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6 and 2.7 of the HL7 messaging standards.
WTX Pack for NCPDP
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is a HIPAA-designated standards maintenance organization for finalized HIPAA transactions. NCPDP standards are used in the retail pharmacy sector. WTX Pack for NCPDP V4.4 includes support for D.0 transaction set and includes template definitions for SCRIPTS V10.6 transaction set and all of the finalized HIPAA NCPDP Telecommunications V5.1 transaction sets and Batch V1.1 format.
Insurance
ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development)
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for ACORD delivers pre built message templates for the ACORD insurance industry standards for Life & Annuity (Life) V2.x, Property & Casualty/Surety (PCS) V1.x and Reinsurance Large Commercial (RLC) accounts. An AL3 2006 V4 type tree is included with a conversion map example for AL3 to ACORD PCS XML 1.x format using the ACORD PCS V1.10.1 Schema. A Validation map utility with XML data examples for PCS. Life insurance standard support includes a sample map for TXLife 2.15.02 to X12 EDI 267 (individual life annuity & disability application). This Pack requires the ACORD XML Schemas - available to ACORD (link resides outside of ibm.com) members only.
EDI
WTX Pack for X12
ASC X12 was developed by the U.S. national standards body for the development and maintenance of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards. The WebSphere TX Pack for X12 V2.8 adds support for ANSI X12 6030 while retaining support for pre-existing versions of the standards.
WTX Pack for EDIFACT
The United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport (UN/EDIFACT) standard is a EDI standard developed under the United Nations and provides a set of syntax rules to structure data, an interactive exchange protocol (I-EDI) and standard messages, which allow multi-country and multi-industry information exchange. The WebSphere TX Pack for EDIFACT V2.8 adds support for d.10a and d.10b standards.
EANCOM
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for EANCOM provides pre built definitions for EDI solutions requiring standard exchange formats. The EAN identification system defines unique identification codes for products and locations often used for barcodes too. Designed for the retail sector, EANCOM is used in healthcare, transport, electronics and publishing.
Odette
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for Odette provides a template to help improve quality and shorten design time of EDI solutions for the Automotive industry. Odette International is an organization, formed by the automotive industry to sets the standards for e-business communications, engineering data exchange and logistics management.
WTX Pack for TRADACOMS
The Trading Data Communications Standard (TRADACOMS) was developed by the Article Number Association (ANA) designed for use in the UK, and covers a similar range to the UN/EDIFACT standard. WTX Pack for TRADACOMS V2.8 include support for TRADACOMS message types, versions 1 to 9.
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