Secure B2B

Secure B2B

Opening up existing business processes and collaborating with partners and customers directly means security, privacy and compliance are of the utmost importance. Enterprise organizations must have secure, integrated and scalable solutions so they can centralize access control and automate system-to-system communications among their trading partners.

  • “In every IT investment, B2B will have some importance.” Gartner
  • “The B2B software and services market in North America is expected to be $2.1 Billion in 2006.” Forrester
  • “By 2007, 60 percent of enterprises will use a B2B gateway to centralize B2B communications compared to 10 percent in 2003.” Gartner
  • “…companies that embark on their B2B projects without the necessary platform in place will waste $2.1 Billion by 2008.” AMR Research


What is Sharing Beyond Boundaries?

In order to grow and be competitive, organizations have to share across boundaries. As demands on the enterprise are constantly increasing, this means companies have to:

  • Share digital identities across partnering organization
  • Work within their own enterprise and beyond to the extranet — and automate large numbers of transactions on many different applications and systems

 

Overall Benefits

  • Business is more flexible
  • Operations are more efficient
  • Improved customer experience
  • New revenue streams


An integrated B2B platform provides automated trading partner management, transaction visibility, and full-cycle transaction auditing in both enterprise and extranet environments. It enables enterprise organizations to:

  • Have visibility into partner transactions to better track supply chain processes such as logistics and inventory
  • Enhance security through comprehensive transaction auditing for adherence to regulatory requirements
  • Scale across both the enterprise and extranet to hundreds of thousands of trading partners conducting millions of transactions per day
  • Have a single point of entry into the corporate firewall for B2B traffic


An additional “flavor” of Sharing Boundaries is Federation for Secure Business Outsourcing. Federated identity management makes identity information easily and securely portable to external domains, enabling you to expand your online services by partnering with other organizations. It enables enterprise organizations to:

  • Streamline the processes required to share resources with partner organizations
  • Introduce new revenue-generating products and services quickly and easily
  • Devote internal talent to business priorities instead of non-core activities