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How to Plan for Trading-Partner Integration Using Identity-Enabled Business-to-Business
Sun Microsystems Deploying new projects to improve business processes and performance is a hallmark of IT today. Successfully delivering on these initiatives frequently involves not only the enterprise, but also its trading partners. This necessitates connecting enterprise and trading-partner systems so that the parties involved can easily and efficiently exchange products, services, and information. However, as the number of trading partners grows, this becomes increasingly challenging. Attempting to establish a one-off connection for each partner and project quickly becomes financially and practically untenable. To scale to accommodate hundreds of thousands of projects and partners, the enterprise needs to:
Replace one-off connections with a single shared interface for multiple partners;
Incorporate connectivity-related capabilities, particularly identity management; and
Establish repeatable processes that can be applied to an infinite number of projects.
Todays enterprise can be expected to have a growing number of projects that demand real-time connectivity with trading partners in order to exchange business-level document messages over the Internet. Many of these messages will require authorized interaction with legacy system code interfaces within enterprise firewalls. An identity-enabled business-to-business (B2B) integration solution promotes:
Security, by providing a centralized means of authenticating, authorizing, and auditing business document messages;
Ease of use, by minimizing the number of solutions required to achieve secure connectivity with trading partners; and
Scalability, by streamlining the processes associated with establishing and maintaining partner connectivity.
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