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Choosing the right electronic data interchange (EDI) solution provider is essential to creating a strong foundation for your enterprise B2B integration strategy. With over 66% of supply chain transactions supported by EDI solutions, selecting a reliable, scalable and extensible platform is critical to address your integration challenges. IBM’s EDI solutions support all major standards and offer industry-leading capabilities for seamless, any-to-any data transformation.
With IBM, you can extend B2B integration capabilities with APIs to support emerging customer mandates and real-time transaction processing. IBM’s EDI and B2B API solutions align with nearly any IT infrastructure strategy, offering on-premises software, containerized hybrid-cloud options and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models that can be self-managed, managed by an IT partner or managed by IBM. IBM’s business network (VAN) offers over 3.1 million pre-existing business connections to help accelerate growth and streamline onboarding.
Discover how secure customer connections yield a 383% ROI, whether through MFT, EDI or API integration.
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IBM offers modern and reliable B2B data exchange solutions built for demanding workloads, and EDI and API routing with document transformation for any-to-any data exchange.
A premier cloud-based B2B integration platform built to optimize your EDI and B2B API transactions. Flexible deployment options support self-managed, partner-managed or IBM-managed configurations. Includes IBM’s industry-leading VAN and additional features for enhanced integration.
This leading B2B Integration Suite of hybrid cloud software supports deployments either on-premise or in the cloud environment of your choice. Its four software components simplify your mission-critical EDI interactions with your customers, suppliers, distributors and other trading partners.
This reliable industry-leading business network automates the connecting, delivering and routing of your B2B EDI transactions. This offering can be a good complement to organizations using the IBM Sterling B2B Integration Suite, third-party EDI software or their own in-house EDI mapping software. This VAN is included as part of our IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS offering.
Reliable EDI and B2B API data transfers can be used to accelerate and streamline mission-critical B2B data exchanges.
Reliable transaction processing increases productivity, freeing up IT staff and keeping the business moving. By reducing the impact of unplanned outages on employees, organizations are losing less productive employee time.¹
Less time to onboard new trading partners and accelerate time to value, enabling full engagement 1.5 weeks earlier. You can scale your B2B activities to match the speed of your business.
Improvement in average customer satisfaction ratings from upstream and downstream partners—with faster resolutions helping drive customer retention and revenues.¹
Augmenting the power of EDI integration with API capabilities within the same system helps to mitigate risk and capture new opportunities. A unified hybrid solution that combines the power of EDI and API eliminates complexity and builds supply chain resiliency—for you and your trading partners.
APIs have emerged as a complementary way to further extend B2B transactions in a hybrid approach that drives additional business value.
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Learn how Formica boosted their B2B transaction volumes by nearly 40%.
See how Li & Fung is processing a peak of 1.5 million transactions an hour by standardizing their work using EDI.
Discover how Saint-Gobain saved 92% costs per line order by using EDI technology.