Trading Partner Integration and Management – Trade Server

Cactus Trade Server is the underlying technology which enables Enterprise Collaboration and B2B solutions. Built on Microsoft BizTalk Server, it provides all of the functionality required for trading partners to connect, trade and collaborate electronically. Trade Server supports tiered solutions enabling trading partners of various sizes to choose the level of connectivity and trading functionality that suits their business. These choices promote trading partner participation throughout the entire supply chain. Trade Server is built on Microsoft BizTalk Server.

The translation engine ensures that buyers can transform the chaos of formats, documents and protocols into a form that their internal systems can recognize. All basic business documents can be exchanged quickly, efficiently and at the lowest possible cost using multiple versions of XML as well as EDI and support for AS2. This makes IT planning more predictable and controllable which leads to operational efficiencies and higher margins. Further efficiencies arise from features such as traffic analysis hooks, which enable large trading partners to quickly assess their aggregate buying power. The resulting information can be used to negotiate future contracts more effectively.

Cactus Trade Server Trading Partner Management (TPM) enables organizations to reach out to their trading community and link their partners directly to their business processes. Trade Server TPM manages all aspects of a trading relationship such as:

• Definition of trading partners and extensible related data
• Message routing
• Flexible party resolution
• Abstraction of trading partner specific protocol support or custom extensions
• Advanced reporting
• Flexible analytics extracted from all messages exchanged
• Messaging status
• Process status and performance
• Channel metrics
• End to end transaction view
• Message and error recovery mechanism