In order to remain competitive in the global marketplace, enterprises are realizing a clear need to integrate business processes with external entities. These external entities are referred to as trading partners, and they include customers, suppliers, strategic partners, and financial institutions. Business-to-Business (B2B) integration refers to the establishment of electronic communication between an organization and its trading partners.

Most common business documents can be exchanged electronically, including purchase orders and acknowledgments, manifests, bills of lading, shipping confirmations, shipment status or tracking data, invoices, and financial transactions. Electronic processing and transmission of business documents saves time and labor by reducing the use of phone and fax, and by reducing human error.

Given the wide variety of legacy systems, packaged applications, and custom applications that any business and its trading partners may be operating, it becomes a daunting task for an enterprise to create its own B2B network. The communication links between the organizations must be established, and each will have its own requirements. In addition, each system that creates or processes an electronic document must receive the data in its proprietary format.

Business Integration Technology creates business-to-business (B2B) integration solutions using our proven EME enterprise messaging engine. We have extensive experience and proven success in applying our knowledge and implementing EME in a variety of industries. Our Capabilities demonstrate expertise across business areas, data standards, and communication protocols.