CSI's Business Document Exchange -- Takes VPN to the Next Level -- Enterprise software provides document level security, tracking, and transport.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1999--

CSI USA Inc., a leading international supplier of secure document mailing software and services, demonstrates its Business Document Exchange - BDE enterprise software elevates and extends Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to operate at the document level.

BDE adds document-level management needed for industrial strength file transfer, to the simple infrastructure-level operations performed by a VPN. Acting on the document object, BDE enhances VPN operations when users not only need secure connections, but need to exchange documents in large quantities, with many partners, frequently, and/or automatically. BDE guarantees a document will arrive, and provides complete tracking, digital signatures, and signed return receipt.

Furthermore, BDE extends the reach of a VPN when one needs to transfer documents with non VPN-enabled partners. Using unprotected IP networks like the Internet, BDE's built-in encryption will be enabled, securing each document through the entire course of its transfer from sender to receiver.

"Document tracking and data logistics is a much larger problem than what virtual private network solutions offer," says Mr. Roberto Giungato, of the Fiat Group in Italy, one of the world's largest car and truck manufacturers. BDE successfully links several hundred external suppliers for Fiat, augmenting the EDI penetration into small business partners.

VPN's cannot understand the concept of a "document". VPN technology only deals with a meaningless sequence of IP packets, and diligently encrypts, compresses and signs bunches of them. But business is based upon documents: an invoice, a purchase order, a contract. BDE secures documents not only through encryption, but enforces digital signatures. BDE also provides,

-- authentication of the partners of the exchange (through digital certificate based log-in);

-- transportation of the documents (regardless with their size; unlike e-mail BDE doesn't use SMTP for transportation but FTP, which is perfect for file transfer);

-- tracking of the documents and transactions (logging every exchange which took place and all data necessary for years-long non-repudiation proof; all data are stored on a standard SQL server).

For more information about solutions for enterprise document exchange and business to business transactions, contact CSI USA by phone [phone] or by email [e-mail]

About CSI

CSI (http://www.csiusa.net) is a leading supplier of Business Document Exchange software and services for business-to-business transfer of critical documents and data over the Internet. CSI's Java-based communications software and services focus on eCommerce, virtual networking, and bridging of information applications over the Internet. CSI USA Inc. is headquartered in the "Silicon Alley" in New York City, NY.