IBM Sterling B2B

Integrate your critical B2B processes, transactions and relationships

IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator enables the security-rich integration of complex B2B processes with diverse partner communities. It provides a single, flexible B2B gateway that enables companies to meet a wide range of B2B integration needs. IBM Sterling B2B Integrator can improve business processes beyond enterprise boundaries and increase visibility into and across supply and demand chains.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator enables you to:

Improve business processes beyond enterprise boundaries.
Use security-rich integration to connect with business partners.
Employ a range of communications methods to meet wide-ranging technology requirements including demands for high performance, high availability networks.
Manage data and applications with flexible tools.
Work with IBM Sterling B2B integrator Mobile to access capabilities from mobile devices.

Improve business processes

Gain visibility into business partner communities, regardless of the partner’s size, geography or choice of technology.
Manage and grow trading partner communities using one centralized system.
Use a graphical process modeling tool, a business process execution engine and process abstraction (layered modeling and component reuse) to support business processes.
Customize partner configurations.
Deploy digital certificates.

Use security-rich integration

Provide identity management features, including authorization and authentication.Use a firewall configuration that adds layers of protection between a corporate intranet and a public network.
Utilize role-based data access and system operation and a security-rich mailbox repository.
Provide security-rich data transport through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell/Secure File Transport Protocol (SSH/SFTP).
Support data encryption through Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) technologies.

Employ a range of communication methods

Support a range of B2B communication protocols, including: web services (SOAP), S/FTP/S client and server, HTTP and HTTP/S, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Applicability Statement 1 (AS1), AS2, AS3, AS4, RosettaNet, Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Zengin TCP/IP and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct®.
Use policy-based file transfers.
Work with file sizes of up to 50 gigabytes.
Provide Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) compatibility.
Enable “Always on” trading partner comms with an optional AS2 and AS4 high performance and high availability architecture

Manage data and applications

Use a multipurpose data transformation engine that supports traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) and XML formats and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) service.
Support IBM WebSphere® Transformation Extender (WTX) translations and provide a graphic data mapping tool.
Work with an integrated development environment (IDE) tool to create custom applications faster.
Use a software development kit (SDK) toolkit to create your own adapters for systems.
Employ back-end connectivity adapters for enterprise applications, enterprise application integration (EAI) messaging platforms and various technology protocols and formats.

Work with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Mobile

Manage and monitor Sterling Integrator processes from a mobile device, including system status, database growth and average business process wait time.
Deliver alerts about Sterling Integrator resources, including system status, database growth and average business wait time.
Run or restart failed or halted business processes.
Initiate key functions such as manage lock resolution for users and resources; initiate thread and heap dumps; and turn logging on and off.