Capabilities with Sterling Connect:Enterprise for UNIX Interoperability

The interface between IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling Connect:Enterprise® for UNIX enables efficient movement of business data and correlation of process activities for both products. You can use Sterling B2B Integrator to extend internal and external processes with the vast array of EAI and B2B adapters available with Sterling B2B Integrator business process flows.

Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise work together to enable your company to easily communicate internally between applications and externally with trading partners.

You can use Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise to securely exchange business documents and data between the two applications in a near seamless environment, and create automated business processes to interact with your back-end systems, eliminating the need for manually creating customized scripts to handle back-end processing.

In addition to having a more managed document exchange and business process environment, Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise provide the following key features:

• Tight integration with end-to-end file processing management and visibility
• A graphical process definition environment where process models include Sterling Connect:Enterprise interactions with Sterling B2B Integrator business processes
• Fault handling for error recovery

• Access to a broader set of business level protocols like ebXML, SOAP (Web Services), and RosettaNet

Before you can understand how Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling Connect:Enterprise work together, you must first understand the concepts and components involved.