Operate Efficiently and Grow with a Scalable, Proven Solution for Multi-Enterprise Data Integration

To be successful in today’s business environment, enterprises must manage more than data originating inside the firewall. Multi-enterprise data integration—collaboration across enterprises with vendors, customers, and other business partners—is critical.

By definition, multi-enterprise data integration involves many data formats. Because the enterprise cannot dictate to partners the format they should use or control the changes they make, IT is forced to respond quickly to unexpected data events.

And with partner requirements becoming more diverse and complex, market forces driving up transaction data volumes, and concerns growing about the quality of exchanged data, businesses are facing new challenges.

To support such B2B processes as data aggregation, data harvesting, business process outsourcing, data hubs, and data gateways, enterprises need to integrate a large variety of data formats from external sources with internal systems in both batch and real time. They need to go beyond traditional B2B capabilities, such as managed file transfer and trading partner management, to deliver full multi-enterprise data integration capabilities.

Multi-enterprise data integration capabilities include:

• Empowering business users and reducing impact on IT with a source/partner management environment that allows business users to configure external data sources and monitor data events, and minimizes IT involvement so they can focus on improving the processes
• Transforming any data, in any format, from any source, enabling your company to reduce costs and increase revenue by removing barriers that prevent doing business with a specific entity
• Detecting data quality problems early so you can detect content problems early in the process and ensure that only valid, trusted data enters or leaves the enterprise
• Providing visibility into the entire data exchange process with capabilities that permit end-to-end management and monitoring of data moving from outside of the enterprise into internal application

Informatica can help

Informatica B2B Data Exchange lets IT organizations define processes and transformations and allows business users to configure these processes per partner and source. Both IT and business users can monitor the data events for each partner and process, and effectively respond to changes. Visibility of the data throughout the exchange enables successful implementation and management of a highly complex process.

Informatica B2B Data Transformation and Managed File Transfer (features tab) capabilities ensure IT can effectively scale with growing business requirements to support more partners, more data formats, and more protocols.

With powerful partner management and business event monitoring capabilities, Informatica B2B Data Exchange can help your company collaborate efficiently and cost-effectively with its extended network of trading partners and customers. As a result, your company can reduce costs and protect and grow revenue streams.