Even with the advent of Service Oriented Architectures and the hype of fully-integrated packaged applications, the need for integration inside and beyond the firewall is still a mandatory requirement. The overwhelming majority of companies will continue to have a heterogeneous application environment for years to come. The reality is that business executives will have to continue to support existing legacy or best of breed components. This may not be forever, but remember that replacing these applications is a long and expensive process. Even if they are replaced, integration technology will be necessary to bridge this transition. Today, the ability for an organization to extend their core processes housed in internal applications out to their functional business units, divisions, suppliers and customers becomes extremely important.

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B2B Gateways-Optimizing Business Integration & Trading Partner Enablement

You often hear the term Integration "Spaghetti" to describe an organization's IT infrastructure. The truth is that most organizations implement a multitude of solutions instead of one to meet customer and business demands. The reality of this environment is that it is extremely costly to maintain. Costs associated with maintaining this environment arise from multiple annual maintenance fees as well as internal support costs every time there is an error and every time there is a new upgrade in any of the systems. SEEBURGER's integration solutions eliminate multiple point to point connectivity.

Organizations have always been challenged when trying to integrate customers and the extended supply chain. Smaller organizations faced technical and economic barriers to enter this collaborative environment in the past. Today, SEEBURGER is the only business integration solution which provides 100% partner integration under ONE PLATFORM.

These trading partner enablement solutions include:

• Paper-to-ERP, enabling faxes and other paper documents to be processed electronically to reduce the time and error risks of manual data entry.
• XMLMail, offering two-way interactive e-mail integration that automatically converts pre-configured populated forms sent by e-mail into XML documents.
• WebForms/Portal, permitting electronic data exchange via Web browsers with automatic generation of responses, bar codes and other documents.
• Hub & Spoke, a centrally managed add-on component installed by smaller partners that integrates with the SEEBURGER B2B Gateway as well as the supplier's back-end application for seamless collaboration.
• EDI, XML & Web Services, accommodate all industry and regional-specific data standards used for trading partner integration