Inovis’ Managed Services is a cost-effective alternative to licensing and implementing your own solution onsite. We've built our outsourced services on our solid expertise in helping companies gain accelerated electronic trading capabilities at low cost and high return.
Leverage the time- and cost-saving benefits of an externally hosted solution
Managed Services provides a convenient, single point of access, and can be tailored to meet your specific requirements. It enables business partners to securely exchange transactions, even with disparate data, business process and network and connectivity standards. Best of all, Managed Services relieves you of the burden of managing complex technology and trading partner hand-holding by letting Inovis do it for you.
Our Managed Services offerings provide flexible connectivity and routing options to meet your business requirements:
Batch. By simply connecting to your mailbox, you can easily initiate a session to send and receive data. This highly familiar—and least expensive—approach provides for asynchronous messaging like EDI.
Event-driven. This is the option of choice for companies with timing issues imposed by their business needs. With event-driven integration, you or Inovis can quickly initiate a data transfer session. Typically, the presence of data (the “event”) triggers a connection and the transfer of information, although it can be based on a schedule or other events.
Real time. For many new interfaces like Web Services, you're providing a request/response interaction with your trading partners (e.g., an available-to-promise (ATP) Web Service would require a real-time inventory look-up). We can handle this for you via application-direct integration. With this type of integration, a provided adapter resides next to your back-end application. It handles real-time dialog with that application and communicates securely with Inovis’ Managed Services.
Mailbox access. With this service, your business partners are responsible for initiating sessions to send and receive data. And simply by connecting to their mailbox, they'll find initiating these sessions a snap. Your trading partners may even already have a mailbox with Inovis or another service provider Inovis connects with.
Dial-out connectivity. This fast and easy service connects Inovis and your business partners over a dial-up phone connection. A session can be triggered by a schedule or the presence of data. Trading partners with this methodology in place that want a secure point-to-point method to handle any level of traffic volume choose dial-out connectivity.
Peer-to-peer connectivity. Business partners and even data can initiate these important connections. Once the session begins, they can both send and receive. Business partners opt for this method not only because it's the industry standard, but also because it's secure, reliable and provides a synchronous connection to support request-response interactions.
Web commerce. This simple yet far-reaching service helps you dramatically increase the adoption of e-business in your community, while giving smaller partners that lack the appropriate infrastructure an easy-to-use B2B service. With Internet access and a standard web browser, your trading partners can log in to a custom web interface to access and trade documents via forms tailored for you.
