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Send and receive EDI transactions with your customers and partners using a reliable, secure,and proven SaaS platform

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Simplify and Scale Your B2B Integration

IBM Sterling® B2B Integration SaaS Essentials helps businesses quickly adopt electronic data interchange (EDI) and streamline B2B integration, even without in-house expertise. It supports a wide range of modern protocols and formats like EDI, XML, and JSON, enabling seamless data exchange with customers, suppliers, and partners.
Connectivity

Wide range of EDI standards and protocols, data translation and validation. Start with as few as 1 connection.
Visibility

End-to-end document tracking and transaction insights.
Partner management

Rapid onboarding and efficient management of customers and partners.
Flexibility

SaaS capabilities start small and scale up to any number of partners, maps or data volumes.

Real clients. Real results.

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59% Fewer unplanned outages

Boost productivity by freeing up IT staff and streamlining business processes with reliable EDI transaction processing. This reduces the impact of outages, which results in less lost employee time.1

 55% Faster partner onboarding

Onboard new trading partners more quickly, accelerating time to value and enabling full engagement 1.5 weeks sooner. Scale your B2B activities to match your business's pace.1

 49% Higher customer satisfaction

Enhance customer satisfaction ratings from both upstream and downstream partners. Faster resolutions in order processing drive customer retention and increase revenues.1

 48% Faster document delivery

Deliver documents twice as fast. Given the tight timeline, speed can have multiplied positive business outcomes.1

One solution for all

The platform offers robust translation tools and access to over 3.1 million partners, with a scalable, pay-as-you-grow model that supports efficient, cost-effective expansion.

 

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Expand your business ecosystem

Connect securely and reliably to over 3.1 million businesses using IBM Sterling B2B Integration VAN, accelerating your network expansion.
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Monitor trends in real time

Gain analytic insights with dashboards that provide trend visibility and tracking capabilities.
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Make smarter, faster decisions

Enhance decision-making with accessible, real-time data and act directly from the dashboard based on predictions and recommendations.
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Seamless data transformation

Transform and map data in the cloud, supporting translation from any structured data format to any other, with comprehensive functionality.
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Scale at your own pace

Start with as few as one connection, one map and 4,000 documents per year, with the option to incrementally add connections, maps and k-documents to minimize costs.

 
Woman Technician inspecting machines
Expand your business ecosystem

Connect securely and reliably to over 3.1 million businesses using IBM Sterling B2B Integration VAN, accelerating your network expansion.
Two office colleagues standing at filing cabinet, looking at laptop, discussing work
Monitor trends in real time

Gain analytic insights with dashboards that provide trend visibility and tracking capabilities.
Back rear view of young asian woman, freelance data scientist work remotely at home coding programing on Big data mining, AI data engineering, IT Technician Works on Artificial Intelligence Project.
Make smarter, faster decisions

Enhance decision-making with accessible, real-time data and act directly from the dashboard based on predictions and recommendations.
Person working at whiteboard
Seamless data transformation

Transform and map data in the cloud, supporting translation from any structured data format to any other, with comprehensive functionality.
Businesswoman discussing with female colleague over coding on computer
Scale at your own pace

Start with as few as one connection, one map and 4,000 documents per year, with the option to incrementally add connections, maps and k-documents to minimize costs.

 

Words That Work

In our selection process, we found IBM Sterling to be the most reliable solution. Also, we were moving to the cloud, so we found their SaaS solution to be very attractive.
Source: IDC Business Value of IBM Sterling Data Exchange Study; September 2023, Simon Ellis, Mathew Marden
Read the IDC Business Value of IBM Sterling Data Exchange Study One of the big advantages of IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS is the maintenance, which we don’t have to do. We’re a manufacturing company, so we don’t have the expertise to maintain an on-premises solution.
Source: IDC Business Value of IBM Sterling Data Exchange Study; September 2023, Simon Ellis, Mathew Marden
Read the IDC Business Value of IBM Sterling Data Exchange Study In addition to time savings on partner onboarding and being quicker to revenue with IBM Sterling B2B Integration, we also see higher quality because of automation. This means that there’s less chance of people making mistake.
Source: IDC Business Value of IBM Sterling Data Exchange Study; September 2023, Simon Ellis, Mathew Marden
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