Business-to-Business Gateway

Business-to-Business (B2B) Gateways integrate data from back-end systems enabling information exchange across trading partners. B2B Gateways also provide a centralized point for transformation of multiple data sources through interoperability standards such as XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

(Extensible Markup Language), cXML

CXML

cXML is a protocol, created by Ariba, intended for communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers...

(Commerce XML) and EDI

EDI

EDI may refer to:* Efficient Drivetrains Inc.* Electronic Data Interchange, a particular set of standards for computer-to-computer exchange of information* EDI, Extended Destination Index...

(electronic data interchange). B2B Gateways provide businesses an e-commerce platform for integrating with key suppliers and customers quickly and easily. The platform often is a component of a company’s Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-oriented architecture

In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

(SOA) architecture. Other capabilities of the B2B Gateway include trading partner management and security control. B2B Gateways help to bridge the collaboration gap across the supply chain partners and transform the data flow between companies from a batch oriented manner into a real time process. This streamlines the processing and enables for business activity monitoring

Business activity monitoring

Business activity monitoring is software that aids in monitoring of business activities, as those activities are implemented in computer systems....

(BAM) systems to be implemented which provides the enterprise with greater visibility and pro-active control over the applications. B2B Gateways continue to be in high demand for organizations of every size.