-Trading Partners (TP) connect to enterprise through transport channels.
-B2B Product acts as a bridge between TP and internal applications.
Key Components
-Gateway for partner management, security.
-Translation for data mapping, error handling.
-Messaging & routing for store forward mechanism.
-Transformation for business rules, adapters.
-Components for monitoring, administration, process orchestration.
TIBCO BusinessConnect is :
- A B2B gateway that allows companies to engage in electronic commerce with their partners.
- Enables secure transmission of documents and messages between partners using disparate internal business systems.
- Supports multiple protocols (also called standards) for electronic commerce, such as EDI, RosettaNet & SOAP.
Major features:
- BC Server engine, which handles transport, messaging, and business message content
- User Access Control
- Trading partner management system and certificate store
- Non-repudiation database
- Audit log database
- Two deployment options: Single Server and Dual Firewall DMZ mode.
- BusinessConnect Palette for BusinessWorks
- Enhanced reporting, using an export interface for repository log and audit data for use by the external reporting system
- Ability to receive emails from multiple email servers
- EZComm, a transport oriented protocol
- BusinessConnect uses TIBCO Administrator as its graphical user interface
Important Aspects :
- BusinessConnect uses TIBCO Admin, its graphical user interface, making it especially familiar and easy-to-use for existing TIBCO customers.
- Business agreements, an essential component of any B2B implementation, can be easily constructed with BusinessConnect. A business agreement defines the protocol (or protocols) you will use to exchange documents with your partner. It defines the transport method (for example, HTTPS or email), and the operations that each partner will be allowed to transact.
- An operation is the sending or receiving of a business document. Each operation is associated with the type of document to be exchanged and the information needed to process the document or send and receive the document. When you set up operations at the system level for use with multiple partners, BusinessConnect gives you the flexibility to override individual aspects of an operation as needed for specific partners.
- Local hosts and remote partners are both participants with very similar requirements in terms of identifying information and technical specifications. For example, in configuring both types of participants, you will need to provide information about locations, contacts, available protocols, and security credentials. BusinessConnect makes smart distinctions between the two in the user interface (for ease of use).
