»B2B Router
»Advantages for using B2B Router
The installation of B2B Router facilitates the management and maintenance of:
- Profiles of exchange to identify trader partners, with the protocol of transport and the supported formats required by each of them.
- Plugins that allow to manage transformations between formats, to facilitate the transformation of business documents to the format expected by each receiver.
- Electronic signature of documents in different formats, XADES, XMLDsig or PDF.
- Submission of documents directly to the corresponding partner, by means of the corresponding protocol, being able to adapt the B2B Router to any IP protocol.
- Reception and validation of instances, both for the structure and/or business rules.
- Verificación of the signature of the sender.
- File electronic documents.
Installing the above functionality in the B2B Router, facilitates his maintenance and avoids incorporating all this complexity in the user systems.
»Hardware
B2B Router requires a specific hardware. B2B Router can be sold with different hardware.
The models recognized at present by Invinet are the following:
- EPATEC eTC
- Shuttle K45
- Asus Barebone
»Configuration of the B2B Router
The configuration of the B2B Router is done by means of an web interface. The main advantage of this exclusive system of configuration is that it keeps a backup of the configuration of the B2B Router, so that in case of need, we can resetup the system within a matter of minutes.
The main features of administration of B2B Router are the following:
- Allows definition of input and output channels, establishing the sequence of steps for each channel (transformations, signature, validations, transport).
- Allows to define customizations, using user's resources such as logotypes, special transformations, etc.
»Functionality of B2B Router
B2B Router allows to define profiles for exchange with your trader partners. It can establish the protocols of communications, mechanisms of security, formats of documents and choreography of processes for each one of them.
B2B Router has a big number of adapters and converters of documents ( FACTURAE, UBL, UN/CEFACT, CODICE, EDIFACT, OAGis, HL7, GS1, PDF) that make it more flexible. If you need to implement any other format, the B2B Router allows the development of adapters and plugins.
For specific cases you can implement new formats developing plugins and additional adapters to the B2B Router that allow him to communicate with other systems to transform or convert his models of documents to the requested by his trader partners.
B2B Router can transport by means of safe channels with protocols like SSL/TLS that avoid the intercepción of business documents.
Can sign documents in different formats: PDF, XMLDsig, XADES, avoiding manual interaction in the process of e-Business.
Receiving documents process in B2B Router allows to verify the validity of those that are signed before system integration with the ERP.
Main functionalities of B2B Router are the following:
- Allows to establish input and output channels to the customer ERP. For each channel you can define different steps for the treatment of documents. These steps can be transformation, validation, signature, or transport.
- Conversion of formats using XSLT transformations, to convert between standard formats or to transform XML to PDF.
- Signature of electronic documents, both in XML and PDF, can create advanced signatures or electronic signatures.
- Transport of documents in different protocols , email, ftp, http, WS, ebMS or AS2 amongst others.
- It allows to keep a backup of the documents issued and received in the own B2B Router. This system of local backups can be integrated with other systems of external copies.
- It allows the verificación of the signature of a received document.
- Validation of rules of business documents received.
