The ability to quickly, easily and securely exchange information with your trading partners is key to success. Efficient management of transactions such as purchase orders, advance ship notices (ASNs) and invoices is critical to expediting speed-to-market and growing revenue. These goals can often be more easily be achieved by leveraging your existing technology.

Leverage your IBM iSeries (AS/400) eServer.
BizManager400™ is a powerful solution for trading partner connectivity, built exclusively for the IBM iSeries platform. Using the Internet, industry standards and the iSeries-native Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it enables your entire community of trading partners to exchange business data quickly, accurately and securely. The resulting efficiencies strengthen trading partner relationships while decreasing costs.

Interoperability
One of the key benefits of BizManager400 is its interoperability with non–Inovis solutions that have passed AS1, AS2, AS3 and ebXML testing. All BizManager™ solutions have been certified as eBusinessReady™ by the Drummond Group for support of the EDI-INT AS1/AS2/AS3 and ebXML standards. So if any of your trading partners are using an eBusinessReady-certified solution, they can easily connect to BizManager400.

How BizManager400 works
BizManager400 is available as two components:

• BizManager400 Server: Runs on the iSeries server and processes all inbound/outbound transactions, as well as all encryption and decryption. BizManager400 uses the native IBM iSeries UDB2 (DB400) database to store all trading partner configuration and transactional data.
• BizManager400 Client: Runs on Microsoft Windows and provides remote access to manage BizManager400 Server through a web browser interface. Via a web browser, BizManager400 Client enables users to manage trading partners and track all transactions processed by BizManager400 Server.

Product highlights

• AS1/AS2/AS3- and ebXML-interoperable solution
• Integrated mapping and translation capabilities (with TrustedLink^®, Inovis' premier, award-winning EDI solution, or any mapper/translator)
• Powerful data tracking with detailed audit trail and archiving capabilities
• Setup wizards for ease of installation and configuration
• Advanced control over password configuration
• Certificate management and validation
• Authentication via digital signatures
• Document reconciliation
• Support for Internet EDI (AS1, AS2, AS3) protocols
• Designed to work with your existing EDI translator/mapper solution
• Secure routing of all data types (EDI, XML, ebXML, TXT, and binary)
• Integration with internal applications via FTP, IFS, file copy, JMS or IBM Websphere MQ (formerly MQSeries)