Enterprise Integration
Easily integrate your selling systems with enterprise and partner business processes
BuyDesign provides advanced tools for integrating with your existing systems environment, including:
- Enterprise level systems, such as your ERP order processing, manufacturing, and financial applications.
- Shop floor and other departmental document management systems.
- Collaborative demand chain and supply chain partner systems.
A single point of control for enterprise data and business process integration
BuyDesign Integrator makes it easy to integrate BuyDesign into your existing systems environment. It provides a single point of control for integration with all back-end manufacturing and business systems, as well as shop floor and product support document management systems.
BuyDesign Integrator provides a powerful, but easy to use Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) toolset employing:
- Open industry standards such as XML, SQL, and text layout formats. Also provides extensive connectivity options to a variety of database and unstructured formats.
- Compatibility with both Microsoft and IBM messaging services.
- Interoperability with other integration toolsets such as Microsoft BizTalk®.
Leverage the Internet to integrate enterprise and partner business processes
BuyDesign Web Services supply an infrastructure for extended functionality available to distributed BuyDesign users when they are connected online. For example, web services may include the ability to:
- Automatically submit orders once a BuyDesign user has placed them in their desktop system
- Check for inventory availability
- Perform a credit check
- Request specific content that may not be available on the local installation
BuyDesign Web Services also delivers the infrastructure for a service oriented architecture (SOA) to support your business processes with security and performance features such as user authorization, data encryption, and data compression.
The BuyDesign Web Services architecture is extendable with plug-in objects to incorporate functionality that is specific to your organization.
