Gentran Integration Suite. (E-Commerce).The Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite, is a modular software See modular programming. suite designed to put Gentran customers on the path to a strategic integration platform. Gentran:Server is Sterling Commerce's translation software designed to handle high-volume messaging in a distributed computing environment See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks Customers will receive a base version of Gentran Integration Suite as a free maintenance upgrade. This includes enhancements to Gentran:Server such as improved document tracking and thin client administration. The Gentran Integration Suite is powered by Sterling Integrator, a next generation integration broker software solution built on J2EE-based architecture and supported by a BPML-based business process engine. Additional options of the suite, which are available for licensing separately, include Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. integration, an integration broker, business process management, real-time cross-application event monitoring In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signalling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. , integrated human workflow, partner self-service and support for sophisticated B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business protocols such as ebXML, EDI-INT, RosettaNet and UCCNet. Gentran Integration Suite modules address four key areas of enterprise integration needs, allowing customers to initially implement modules that meet immediate needs and add new functionality as those needs expand. Features include: * Enterprise application integration, including a range of adapters, which are available for licensing separately, to enable flow of information between business applications, as well as data source management capabilities * EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. trading community management, encompassing all widely used EDI standards * B2B commerce community management, allowing the integration of trading communities based on emerging Internet-based standards such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and RosettaNet, available through separate licensing * Web enablement, supporting community enablement features that expedite and simplify the, participation of trading partners in electronic commerce communities; available through separate licensing www.sterlingcommerce.com |
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