What you need to succeed
At minimum, electronic B2B integration requires the ability to connect and communicate with trading partners. But no matter your business size, industry, or value chain position, the right B2B communications foundation can enhance process integration, visibility and partner satisfaction, and also reduce transaction costs through increased accuracy and timeliness.
Not all VANs are equal
Over the years, many companies have used value-added networks as the foundation for successful B2B integration. The problem is, not all VANs are built alike. In order to establish an effective electronic B2B strategy, you’ve got to find a VAN provider that continually innovates its offering, while delivering the value-added fundamentals.
Sterling Information Broker delivers
Sterling Information Broker is the value-added network used by tens of thousands of companies around the world. It provides a single-connection to all of your business partners, regardless of size, location, or communications preferences. It supports multiple protocols and communications methods, and processes millions of transactions daily, regardless of data type.
Designed to serve a wide range of B2B integration requirements, Sterling Information Broker can help you:
- Respond quickly to customer requirements – We support multiple protocols so you don’t have to.
- Perform any-to-any data translation – We support XML, all forms of EDI including X12 and EDIFACT, as well as industry-specific and proprietary formats.
- Build trading communities – We can provide outsourced management and technical support for partner on-boarding.
- Expand your B2B global operations – Connect to trading partners securely and reliably worldwide with over 90 network interconnects.
- Manage high and rapidly growing data volumes – Sterling Information Broker has managed as many as a billion documents in one month.
Additionally, you can utilize Sterling Information Broker to:
Reach private enterprises – EDIINT Gateway Service manages and interprets the differences in communication, format, content and security approaches between EDI-INT capable partners and non-EDIINT capable partners.
Reach government services – U.S. & Canadian Customs Gateway Services is a hosted service that serves as a communications pass-through for customers who need to facilitate document exchange with the U.S. and/or Canadian Customs Services.
Reach other EDI hosted providers – Interconnects send data to, and receives data from, private and public networks that your business partners use. Advanced Network eXchange provides business partners in the automotive industry with a single, secure network for e-commerce and data transfer.
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Community Development Services combine proven tools and processes with dedicated resources to help you build, manage, and expand your B2B communities.
Fax Conversion Services convert incoming faxes into EDI or XML documents and reverse the process for outgoing documents, proactively alerting both senders and recipients of potential problems.
Managed AS2 Gateway Services enable you to comply with AS2 mandates inexpensively, and smooth the way for your suppliers to make the switch to AS2.
Supply Chain Visibility On Demand application gives our network customers unprecedented access to inbound and outbound supply chain information, which is critical to meeting customer demands and managing supplier performance.
Translation and Mapping Services increase communications flexibility by offering high-quality maps, making it easier to exchange and process documents in all formats and standards.
Web Forms provide an economical way to exchange documents over the Internet. Your trading community can access electronic business forms, which they can fill out and return to you in minutes.
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Sterling Information Broker Solution Overview
