Features overview

Sterling B2B Integrator provides many powerful features to help you meet your business needs.

AS2 Edition
The AS2 Edition is an easy-to-use AS2 EDIINT management solution that you can use with existing EDI or other business document management processes. The AS2 Edition sends and receives documents and interacts with your existing processes.
Dashboard Interface
The Sterling B2B Integrator interface features a Dashboard that provides system, process, and trading partner information at a glance through elements that are called portlets that are arranged on the pages.
EBICS Banking Server Module
You can transact with partners and users by using the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS) with the EBICS Banking Server Module.
EBICS Client
Using EBICS Client, a partner or a user who is associated with the partner can configure and manage multiple banks, partners, and users. Multiple users can securely transact with multiple banks (EBICS banking servers).
Globalization Support
Sterling B2B Integrator supports multiple languages and multiple regional data formats by using encoding and XML resource bundles.
IBM Global High Availability Mailbox
Global Mailbox is a robust and reliable way to store message data from partners in any geography. As a component of Sterling B2B Integrator, this component enables customers who have licensed Sterling B2B Integrator to optionally pay for an add-on component that provides high availability mailboxing to exchange files.
Integration with other IBM products
Sterling B2B Integrator can be integrated directly with several IBM products to create a more complete end-to-end system for business document transaction processing.
Mailbox Service
Sterling B2B Integrator includes a mailbox service that provides store-and-forward capabilities. You can configure this service to organize, store, monitor, and manage trading partner documents and transactions by usings AS2 protocol (the EDIINT service and the HTTP, and HTTPS communication adapters).
MESA Developer Studio
Use MESA Developer Studio to connect with a Sterling B2B Integrator instance for resource access and control of operations, change the template that Sterling B2B Integrator uses, and develop custom services, from within a development environment.
Perimeter Server
Sterling B2B Integrator uses perimeter servers to minimize demilitarized zone (DMZ) issues, enhance scalability, enhance the process of handling large files, and improve performance.
Predefined Business Process Models
Predefined business process models are preconfigured business process models included with Sterling B2B Integrator for your convenience. These are like any other business process models that you create, in that, each consists of a series of software (and possibly, human) activities that accomplish a business goal.
Role-Based Security
With role-based security, you can limit a user's access to certain files, business processes, browser-based interfaces, services, and other product features and components according to the permissions you associate with that user's account.
Sterling e-Invoicing
Tracking and Searching Capabilities
Sterling B2B Integrator provides several features to help you monitor operations, track the state of data in your processes, and search for the specific information you require.
Trading Profile Management
A trading profile is a collection of records that describe the technology, business capabilities, and communication capabilities of a trading partner that engage in e-business with other trading partners.
Web Extensions
You can build the human interaction points into your business process models with the Sterling B2B Integrator Web Extensions.

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