All organizations with which an enterprise conducts business are considered trading partners. Some examples include customers (can be end-consumers or other businesses), vendors (suppliers and other service providers), and banking and financial institutions. In order to remain competitive in the global marketplace, enterprises are realizing a clear need to integrate business processes with their trading partners.

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.

BIT’s EME makes provisioning new trading partners easy. Each trading partner is assigned a unique name within EME. In addition to this, a unique identifier and an identifier type is assigned to a trading partner so when messages are received they can easily be parsed for this identifier and mapped to a trading partner. Each trading partner can be assigned a group and then users within EME can be assigned to this group for fine-grained control over the trading partners. This allows users viewing the BDP (business documents processor) user interface to only see the business documents that are in the groups that were assigned. When provisioning a trading partner you can optionally have this trading partner provisioned within Protocol Proxy. This allows a user of EME to easily provision a new trading partner and have them sending or receiving messages momentarily.