BusinessConnect product Overview and Major Features

BusinessConnect is a B2B (business-to-business) gateway that allows your company to engage in electronic commerce with your partners. It enables secure transmission of documents and messages between partners using disparate internal business systems.

BusinessConnect supports multiple protocols (also called standards) for electronic commerce, such as EDI, RosettaNet, and SOAP.

BusinessConnect includes these major features:

• BusinessConnect Server engine, which handles transport, messaging, and business message content
• Trading partner management system and certificate store
• Non-repudiation database
• Audit log database
• Two deployment options: Single Server and Dual Firewall DMZ mode
• BusinessConnect Palette for TIBCO BusinessWorksTM

BusinessConnect uses TIBCO AdministratorTM as its graphical user interface, making it especially familiar and easy-to-use for existing TIBCO customers.

Business agreements, an essential component of any B2B implementation, can be easily constructed with BusinessConnect. A business agreement defines the protocol (or protocols) you will use to exchange documents with your partner.

It defines the transport method (for example, HTTPS or email), and the operations that each partner will be allowed to transact. When you set up operations at the system level for use with multiple partners, BusinessConnect gives you the flexibility to override individual aspects of an operation as needed for specific partners.