Overview

Trading Manager is a Business to Business (B2B) management environment that uses the IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender to integrate trading partner transactions with enterprise applications.

It includes two components: Partner Manager, a graphical administration component, and Message Manager, a runtime subsystem that uses trading profiles maintained by Partner Manager to automate document exchange among EDI partners. Electronic commerce data flows from external sources to internal destinations and from internal sources to external destinations, and possibly to other internal organizations.