Business-to-business relationships have rapidly advanced three stages, from web-based interactions that solely provided information, to basic transactions (e.g. web-enabling ERP applications), to the explicit management of B2B processes between multiple organizations.
At the beginning, expected gains in operational efficiencies were as simple as electronically delivering a purchase order or a catalog to a customer and receiving an acknowledgement. As an organization's experience and capabilities grow, these B2B processes that link an enterprise with its customers and suppliers can become more sophisticated-providing even greater value and enhancing interactions, such as collaborative planning and forecasting, or advanced logistics.
Extricity for Enterprise, which is based on Extricity B2B™, a complete, flexible platform for powering and managing the full spectrum of business interactions over the Internet, provides you with the capabilities to help manage your rapidly changing business environment.
Extricity for Enterprise adapts to meet the needs of your company's business processes. Not the other way around.
Learn more about the attributes of our exciting solution for your enterprise.
Open
Rapid
Scalable
& Reliable
Process-based
Open - Extricity for Enterprise is interoperable with other B2B tools. It allows your organization to use HTTP, FTP, email, web browsers or EDI to integrate to its trading partners. Extricity is based on open standards, such as
XML, for describing the information moving between trading partners. It is also able to integrate into diverse internal systems, such as SAP, Oracle,
PeopleSoft, Baan, files, COM, CORBA, etc.
Rapid - New customers or suppliers can be added in minutes after initial setup, which is usually only a matter of a few days or weeks depending on the scope of your project. Plus, Extricity's pre-packaged adapters and application integration wizards make integration to your ERP or other internal systems a snap-without the need for additional point-to-point
customization.
Scalable & Reliable - Companies such as Bourns and Celestica use Extricity for Enterprise to manage their mission-critical B2B processes. It's a complete platform that is designed to be scalable as the needs of your organization evolve. Extricity for Enterprise contains rich administration functionalitythat allows your organization to reconfigure its systems and business processes without significant changeover costs or downtime. In addition, Extricity for Enterprise contains sophisticated checkpoint and restart capabilities to recover gracefully after network failures-capabilities that set us apart from our competitors.
Process-based - Extricity is defining the concept of inter-company business processes. "Public" processes (those B2B processes such as order management and collaborative forecasting) that run between your organization and its customers and suppliers are kept separate from internal-or "private" processes (such as integrating to internal systems or performing internal approvals), to give unmatched flexibility. Both types of business processes can be modified quickly and easily through Extricity's graphical management environment.
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