Learn about common B2B integration challenges, the key advantages of modernizing your B2B capabilities, and how the IBM B2B integration solutions (including IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM Transformation Extender, IBM Transformation Extender Advanced, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Sterling Control Center, and IBM Sterling Secure Proxy) can help. You'll learn how these solutions work together to address a wide range of business, industry and technology needs today.
3. Consumerization of
technology setting new
expectations for business
operations
• Real-time response
• Always available
• Always connected,
regardless of location
or device
Business in the cloud
• Systems are no longer
centralized
• Business processes are
spanning on-premise and
cloud-based transactions
• Communities in the
cloud, directly
connected or hybrid
Competing demands
for cost reduction and
marketplace expansion
• Automate processes
to improve efficiency
• Processes span
multiple enterprises
Partner Communities and Operational Processes
Partner Communities and Operational Processes are Rapidly Changing
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4. Industry mandates and
government regulations
• Basel III
• Dodd-Frank Act
• Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Electronic invoicing
• Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
• AS4
Increasingly complex and
diverse global business
communities
• Supplier consolidation in
North America
• Supplier expansion in
emerging markets
• Integrating technically
challenged partners
Partner Communities and Operational Processes
Partner Communities and Operational Processes are Rapidly Changing
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10. Why Modernize?
An IT Point of View
• An outdated technology stack
• Multiple integration gateways
• Lack newer capabilities
• Leverage new technologies
(Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social)
A Line of Business Point of View
• Accommodating the demands of
my B2B community and industry
• Inability to offer new
differentiating services
• A desire to lower operational costs
• The need to improve decision
making
• Address governance risk and
compliance requirements
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12. Modernize your B2B Platform
Why modernize? What’s driving the need? Where’s the value?
An outdated
technology stack
• Hardware cant scale to meet growth
requirements
• OS and DBs are EOS or EOL
• Hardware no longer supported
• A scalable B2B platform
• An extendable architecture
• Vendor supported
Multiple integration
gateways
• Separate islands of automation (B2Bi vs.
MFT vs. EDI)
• Acquisitions resulted in multiple,
disparate gateways
• Lack of process automation
• Consolidating B2B integration
patterns on a single vendor’s
gateway
• Automating extended
processes
• Lower cost of IT operations
Modernize your B2B platform – The IT perspective
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13. Modernize your B2B Platform
Why modernize? What’s driving the need? Where’s the value?
Lack newer
capabilities
• Custom built B2B integration capabilities
are difficult to upgrade
• Reliance on the capabilities of an older
B2B integration platform
• LOB wants new services IT cant deliver
• Security capabilities failed an audit
• Difficult to comply with industry
standards
• The capabilities to support my
operational requirements
• The flexibility to offer new
services
• Staying current with relevant
industry standards
• Leveraging the latest network
and data security technologies
Leverage new
technologies
(Cloud, Analytics,
Mobile, Social)
• Existing technology stack cannot
support
• Business has not funded the projects
• Turn the data flowing thru the
B2B platform into actionable
information
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14. Modernize your B2B Platform
Why modernize? What’s driving the need? Where’s the value?
Accommodating the
demands of my B2B
community and
industry
• Consumer expectations drive faster
cycle times
• Adding new partners or
transactions takes too long
• Improved cycle times
and customer service
• Faster time to revenue from B2B
relationships
Inability to offer new
differentiating services
• IT needs too much time to respond
to the request
• We don’t have the capabilities
• Quickly offering new revenue
generating services
• Lack of capabilities is no longer an
obstacle to offering new services
Modernize your B2B platform – The LOB perspective
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15. Modernize your B2B Platform
Why modernize? What’s driving the need? Where’s the value?
A desire to lower
operational costs
• Too many manual processes &
redundant data entry
• Reduce Fax, email and phone to
exchange business documents
• Responding to customer questions
• Processes operate with minimal intervention
• Increased use of eBusiness transactions
reduces operational costs
• Offering customers self-service
The need to improve
decision making
• Lack of meaningful customer insight
• The inability to measure operational
performance
• Analytics provide market intelligence
• More oversight of day to day operations
and issues
Address governance,
risk and compliance
requirements
• My company’s a target
• We failed a security audit
• Pressure to keep current with industry
standards
• Reduce the risk and cost of a security breach
• Compliance with security best practices
• Compliance with legal or industry standards
Modernize your B2B platform – The LOB perspective
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21. Suppliers
Carriers
Banks
Customers
B2B Cloud
Retailers
Government Agencies
Health Providers
CRM/ERP
Databases
Custom Apps
Messaging
Your Company
Multi-enterprise B2B Gateway
IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator
• Robust & highly scalable
• Integrates with Sterling B2B
Collaboration Network, ITX,
WebSphere MQ and Message Broker
• Strategic foundation of Sterling
File Gateway, e-invoicing, B2B
Integration Services
Enables multi-enterprise process through orchestration, transformation and secure
routing between internal systems and diverse partner communities
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22. Suppliers
Carriers
Banks
Customers
B2B Cloud
Retailers
Government Agencies
Health Providers
CRM/ERP
Databases
Custom Apps
Messaging
Your Company
Holistic B2B Integration Foundation
IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator
• Accelerates growth & productivity
• Allows for better & faster
decision making
• Makes it easier for customers to do
business with you
• Increases customer satisfaction
• Reduces TCO
Enables multi-enterprise process through orchestration, transformation and secure
routing between internal systems and diverse partner communities
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40. ITX Universal Transformation
ITX for Integration Servers For workloads within IBM ESBs / Sterling B2B Integrator
ITX Hypervisor Edition
Deploy in private clouds with IBM Pure Systems, IBM Workload
Deployer or VMware Tools
ITX with Command Server For stand-alone workloads in command driven environments
ITX with Launcher
For stand-alone workloads in file, database and message driven
environments
ITX for Application
Programming
For embedded use, called via API — WAS, CICS, 3rd party
products, etc.
Single Universal ITX Core with Editions Tailored for Various Deployments
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47. Key capabilities:
• Modular, scalable document mediation
• Consistent capabilities across industry
standards
• Automated processing that adheres to
industry practices
• Support for ITX, Sterling, and XSLT
transformation maps
• Integration with multiple IBM products,
including Integration Bus, B2B Integrator and
IBM Transformation Extender
IBM Transformation Extender Advanced
ITXA provides a modular, comprehensive solution for
transforming documents in key industry verticals.
DesignRuntime
Bulk/Debulk Transformation Response
Ack
Validation Biz. Rules
ITXA
SBI
Map Editor
ITX
Design Studio
Sterling
MDB
ITX
Type Trees
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72. Why IBM?
• Deployment choice:
on premises, cloud or managed service
• Modular architecture:
buy for ITXAcific project or
enterprisewide
• Platform choice:
desktop, midrange or mainframe
• Experienced in building integration
centers of excellence
• Provides guidance in B2B best practices
from assessment to implementation
• Global deployment experience across
industries
Customer flexibility—
right solution, right away
Superior consulting
and professional
services expertise
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