Unlimited possibilitiesxTrade Business Hub is the communication and integration platform that converts data to/from arbitrary format as well as transports the information swiftly, securily and flawlessly over WAN/LAN/Internet. You can rationalize the administration throughout your entire company or use the xTrade Business Hub as your core system when you operate as a VAN service on the Internet. Sell services such as conversion or broking of CAD, prices, transports etc.

Expandable and flexiblexTrade Business Hub is a communication- and integration hub that easily can be expanded when needs grow. By using xTrade Business Hub in a company or an organization the message handling will be rationalized to a central point which manages the external communication and necessary conversion. This results in major cost and resource savings compared to other solutions. Thanks to the billing functionality in xTrade Business

No matter if you already are an exisiting xTrade user or new to the Xtrade Business Communications Suite, Swedwise can assist you with using this powerful business integration and communication tool.

Hub you can create a VAN (Value Added Network) in which all communicating parties can benefit from xTrade Business Hub’s flexibility and functionality, but only pay for the actual traffic. The flexibility in xTrade Business Hub gives the VAN operator unlimited possibilities to build new business concepts where different systems are connected to each other, independent of formats and ways of communication.

Cluster and connect front-end systemsxTrade Business Hub uses symmetrical multiprocessing and load sharing between clustered systems. xTrade Business Hub can use all processors in a cluster optimally, which results in very high performance. To further increase the performance level xTrade Business Hub can also be distributed over an arbitrary number of back-end/front-end systems. Front-end systems handles external parties/protocols and forwards the

xTrade Business Communications SuiteGive your clients fast and uncomplicated access to secure point-to-point communication.

Our in-depth knowledge of xTrade empowers you to cooperate with your partners over various networks, different technologies, ERP systems and other applications.

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traffic to back-end systems for processing. This possibility also meets the high security demands by placing the front-end systems in a separate net, “DMZ”.

xTrade Business Hub

• All settings are configurated in graph-ical interfaces, no programming is needed.

• Advanced party handling for simple configuration of “many to many” relations.

• Optimally uses the available system capacity and bandwidth

• Co-exist with arbitrary firewalls• Send private information securely over

public nets • Easily integrated with your existing

systems • Format independent, can tranfer

binary data Offers fast and interactive troubleshooting Data conversion with Message Mapping Toolkit to/from EDIFACT, XML, X.12, HIPAA, HLF, NCP-DP, NHS, NSF,UB92, flat files, inhouse format, etc.

• Homogeneous logging and event con-trol throughout the system.

• Delivers receipts/notifications for all your sent messages

• Authentication and encryption • Handles most commercial protocols • Can be remotely monitored • Support for clustering Has support for

PKI • Support for replication and distributed

front-end andback-end systems• Billing possibility

Processing functions

Examples of available processing functions:

• Character conversion • Command line execution • Compression • Encryption • Signing • SMIME handling • COM-processing • Data Conversion (Mapping)

Service products

Xware offers the following service products:

• Alarm Server • Remote Manager • Resource Monitor• rocessing Host • Message Mapping Toolkit

Technical

Client platform: Unix, IBM, Windows NT4/98/2000/2003/Me/XP, Linux etc.

Client connection: ONC-RPC, DCE-RPC, Java-RMI, DCOM, ActiveX, File-API:s, etc.

WAN-protocol: xTRM/SSL (TCP/IP), FTP-Client/Server, OFTP (support for X.25, TCP/IP, ISDN), SMTP (support for SMIME, AS1, AS2, EH3), HTTP(S)-Client/Server (support for AS2, SOAP, ebxml-MSH), IBM MQ, X.400/X.435.

Programming interface: The system can easily be increased through a large number of accessible interfaces.

Built-in parser for interpretation of: EDIMGR, EDIFACT, ANSI X.12, BizTalk v1 & v2, ebXML.

Server platform: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP. Support for BizTalk and multiprocessor systems.

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Solutions can easily be created regardless of what IT systems, platforms or standards your communication partners use.

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Effective communicationxTrade Communications Gateway is a communication solution for businesses and organizations who want to give internal systems the possibility to communicate with other parties over WAN. xTrade Communications Gateway enables applications to communicate with your partners, efficiently and flawlessly.

Independent of protocolxTrade Communications Gateway communicates over optional protocol, for example X.400, SMTP, HTTP(S), OFTP, xTRM, IBM MQ, or FTP. All protocols can be used simultaneously. xTrade Communications Gateway has complete logging and traceability, regardless of which protocol is used.

Conversion possibilityxTrade Business Communications Suite’s data conversion modules converts your messages to/from any data format; e.g. EDIFACT, XML or ANSI X.12, inhouse format etc. This way you will obtain great flexibility in your communication. You can send an invoice from your business administration system straight into the recipient´s ERP system or transfer CAD drawings between the company´s local offices.

Increased security and overviewYou and your communication partners will never lose any information, since xTrade Communications Gateway controls every step of the communication. xTrade Communications Gateway also delivers acknowledgements (receipts) for every message you send.

xTrade Communications Gateway

• Handles over 2.000 messages/minute• All settings are configurated in

graphical interfaces, no programming is needed

• Optimally uses the available system capacity and bandwidth

• Co-exist with arbitrary firewalls• Send private information securely

over public nets• Easily integrated with your systems• Format independent, can tranfer

binary data• Fast interactive troubleshooting• Data conversion with Message

Mapping Toolkit to/from EDIFACT, XML, X.12, HIPAA, HLF, NCPDP, NHS, NSF, UB92, flat files, inhouse format, etc.

• Homogeneous logging and event control throughout the system.

• Delivers receipts/notifications for all your sent messages

• Authentication and encryption• Handles most commercial protocols

and are fully integrated into the system.

• Can be remotely monitored • Has support for clustering • Has support for PKI

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A fast, simple, safe and cost-effective B2B collaboration tool with all the data processing power you’ll ever need.

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xTrade Business Connect

Integration advantagesxTrade Business Connect is easily integrated with your ERP-systems and provides low cost, fast and secure connection to xTrade Business Hub or Communications Gateway over the Internet. The integration with the ERP-systems is compatible with the other members of xTrade Business Communications Suite, which makes it very easy to upgrade if increased needs arise.

Satellite systemxTrade Business Connect is intended as a satellite system to xTrade Communications Gateway or xTrade Business Hub. xTrade Business Connect is suitable for client systems that need a simple and reliable connection to one WAN-connected party.

xTrade Business Connect works as a satellite system connected to xTrade Communications Gateway or xTrade Business Hub. xTrade Business Connect is perfect for local offices in a larger organizations who centrally use xTrade Business Hub, or for connection to public messaging services.

In xTrade Business Connect the connectionwill be established using the xTrade Business Communications Suite’s own WAN protocol xTRM. You can communicate with all parties that are connected to the hub and you will also be able to take advantage of functions such as format conversion and encryption, etc. The protocol has built-in PKI-based VPN, which further reduces the cost for connection.

xTrade Business Connect

• Handles over 1.000 messages/minute• Optimally uses the available system

capacity and bandwidth• Co-exist with arbitrary firewalls• Format independent, tranfer binary

data• Send private information securely over

public nets– does not VPN (Virtual Private Network)

• Easily integrated with your existing systems Delivers receipts/notifications for all your sent messages

• Offers authentication and encryption• Uses xTrade Business

As an xWare certified and recognised partner, our certified expertise in xTrade enhances in-and-out data management, improves processes, and integrates systems in the most value-adding way.

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