Why Every Business With a Complex Supply Chain Needs Sterling B2B Integrator

Integrate, Secure, and Optimize Your Supply and Demand Chains

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator is the most robust B2B integration solution available today. It allows your organization to integrate all of its systems and processes through a single gateway bypassing standard enterprise barriers.

If your organization has a large, complex supply chain, Sterling B2B Integrator can help you keep everything organized and optimized for efficiency. Below are three of the most important benefits for businesses with complicated supply and demand chains.

Integrate Across Multiple Platforms

As your supply chain grows, you continue to use more enterprise software and other tools to manage everything as efficiently as possible. The problem is that most growing businesses end up using a variety of systems on different platforms that don't integrate together.

As the name suggests, the primary benefit of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator is its ability to integrate all of your systems, software solutions, and B2B communication channels through one secure gateway. Tight integration means your business systems stay better organized and everything continues to run on schedule without a hitch.

Sterling B2B Integrator works well for manufacturers, healthcare providers, enterprises, and any other large organization with a high volume of B2B transactions. In fact, what makes B2B Integrator unique is its ability to adapt to any business software in any industry.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Provides:

• Any-to-any data mapping and translation – Includes all common EDI standards, XML standards, and Internet standards for B2B exchanges
• 300+ pre-built adaptors – Can integrate all IBM solutions, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, GXS, and many other enterprise solutions and instant messaging platforms

Finally, you can connect all of your business processes through a central gateway without any barriers.

Enhanced Security for Your Enterprise Systems

Security is a major concern for large organizations. The more systems you have integrated and the more trading partners you have in your network, the more vulnerable you are to security threats.

Fortunately, IBM heavily emphasized security in the development of Sterling B2B Integrator, resulting in a robust collection of features that protect your business processes and data in every way possible.

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Security Features Include:

• Role-based security – Assigns each user account permission to access specific files, business processes, software features, etc.
• Password policies – Sets of security decisions you can apply to user accounts, such as the number of days a password is valid or the minimum length of a password.
• LDAP authentication – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a set of protocols for securing access to data stored in an information directory.
• System installation passphrase – A highly complex (16+ characters) system passphrase you create for your Sterling B2B Integrator installation to protect sensitive information.
• x.509 certificates – Support for encryption, signing, and transport layer security.

Additional Configurable Security Features Include:

• Proxy servers
• Digital certificates
• Document encryption
• Security time out features
• Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
• Custom password policy with unique password rules
• Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication that allows users to access multiple applications and only have to enter one username and password
• Hardware security module (HSM) device that generates, stores, and protects cryptographic keys

Sterling B2B Integrator also includes Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certified software module and support, Secure Socket Layering (SSL), and Transport Layer Security (TLS).

End-to-End Visibility

It's difficult to manage all of the moving parts in a complex supply chain, and it only takes one broken link to make the entire chain useless. Sterling B2B Integrator gives large organizations end-to-end visibility of their supply and demand chains, allowing them to resolve issues in real-time before they become serious problems.

Full visibility gives organizations a strategic advantage because they can easily view and manage all of their B2B transactions alongside internal business processes and enterprise systems.

If your business is interested in B2B Integrator, we can help! We have implemented Sterling B2B Integrator for many of the top Fortune 100 companies as an IBM Business Partner we can even get you a better deal.

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