The IBM Sterling® B2B Integration SaaS Essentials edition helps you to get started with electronic data interchange (EDI) and business-to-business (B2B) integration. It’s also helpful for organizations that lack the in-house skills to quickly onboard new customers or translate and route B2B data. Larger organizations may also find this edition useful as a tactical solution to quickly onboard a new customer or supplier.

Efficient EDI connection setup

• This platform supports a wide range of modern B2B protocols, including formats like EDI, X12, XML, JSON and direct connections through traditional protocols.
• Our robust mapping and translation capabilities enable seamless integration with customers or trading partners, regardless of the structured B2B format they use.
• You can establish EDI connections with customers, suppliers, distributors and other trading partners by leveraging access to over 3.1 million businesses connected through the IBM Sterling® B2B Integration Value-Added Network (VAN).

Scalable and cost-effective growth Begin with a single connection and scale up as needed. The cloud-based services of the B2B Integration SaaS platform allow your organization to expand its connections in tandem with growth, ensuring you only pay for what you use.

Features

Get started with EDI and B2B integration by applying the basic features available with the Essentials edition.

• **Large growing network: **Connect securely and reliably to over 3.1 million businesses using IBM Sterling B2B Integration VAN, accelerating your network expansion.
• **Track and trace visibility: **Gain analytic insights with dashboards that provide trend visibility and tracking capabilities.
• **Data-driven actions: **Enhance decision-making with accessible, real-time data and act directly from the dashboard based on predictions and recommendations.
• **Any-to-any data: **Transform and map data in the cloud, supporting translation from any structured data format to any other, with comprehensive functionality.
• **Flexible connection volume: **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.

Benefits

• **Connectivity: **This system supports a wide range of EDI standards and protocols, offers data translation and validation and allows you to start with as few as one connection.
• **Visibility: **It provides end-to-end document tracking and offers insights into transactions.
• **Partner management: **The platform enables rapid onboarding and efficient management of customers and partners.
• **Flexibility: **With its SaaS capabilities, you can start small and scale up to accommodate any number of partners, maps or data volumes.
• **Resiliency: **It is a secure, scalable and reliable solution, suitable for a diverse range of demanding workloads.