Product uses for Sterling B2B Integrator customers

IBM Transformation Extender includes a transformation engine, a graphical map editor, and industry packs that provide pre-defined support for multiple document standards, and a range of technology adapters.

You can embed IBM Transformation Extender within an application or run it in parallel to an application. With different engine configurations, you can use the transformation capabilities of IBM Transformation Extender through:
  • Direct integration with specific IBM® products
  • The API
  • The command line
  • Event-based triggers
IBM Transformation Extender has these unique features:
  • Transformation of multiple inputs and multiple outputs in a single translation process
  • High throughput execution
  • Code-free design and deployment
  • Robust design and testing functions through the Eclipse IDE
  • Ontological data model for all data types
  • Support for industry standards such as HL7, SEPA, NCPDP, and ACORD
IBM Transformation Extender addresses the business needs that are common to both application-to-application (A2A) and business-to-business (B2B) integration. Integration with Sterling B2B Integrator adds these capabilities:
  • Trading partner management
  • Enveloping and de-enveloping or bulking and debulking
  • Document management and archive
  • Automated acknowledgment generation
  • Reporting
  • Managed file transfer with Sterling File Gateway

IBM Transformation Extender maps can run in existing or new business processes. Within a business process, Sterling B2B Integrator logging, alerts, and error messages are active. IBM Transformation Extender has additional logging and management facilities that can provide product-specific detail. If you have experience with either product, you can use the troubleshooting tools that you know.

Business needs determine whether to use the adapters that are available with IBM Transformation Extender or the adapters that are available with Sterling B2B Integrator.