Integration to B2b Exchanges

As we all know that business online means collaborating with different suppliers, partners, auditors, service providers,… which means also collaborating with many different systems and people. This collaborating is a must to develop the business online, but can be very risky, expensive, and consuming much more time than expected. Business integration does guarantee the streamlined process in a very powerful way to B2B online.

B2B integration does the following:

1- Automating and streamlining the process of critical business online.

2- Sharing the information across the organization through the systems.

3- Cutting cost and reducing the manual intervention.

4- Improving revenue and the growth of the organization.

5- Speeding up the time to market.

6- Speeding up the time to implement key solutions and processes.

7- Creating a competition stand and establishing a market share.

Business integration also can be described as EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) or EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), but many companies still have some parts of such integration, the comprehensive business integration represents data and applications' integration as well as a real time exchanges and managing the process of complex business as well.

This is why Hubspan is supporting the processes of complex integration and managing the EDI transaction, providing the business process automation with additional services.

The overall business might be critical especially to the IT strategy; Business integration provides and aligns priorities to the business and to the technicality related to IT strategy, it shifts the business to stand in front of competitors, while customers and partners will admire the fast moving process of the organization in the market.

B2B exchanges integration in general is referring to e-commerce applications which are connected to the current organization internal infrastructure, and to the systems of business partners. (Turban et al, 2008) claimed that "the systems representing a company should be integrated with the e-commerce applications and include the database of marketing and other departments" which means legal department, procurement department (ERP system)…

In B2B processing and transacting "interaction" is very important; servers should be connected to each others to retrieve the right needed data for transactions. Organization should implement standard communication protocols when designing the web infrastructures like HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP/IP; In addition to Javascript and ActiveX