Overview
  
 

 

EnterpriseEC® is an Internet-based Electronic Trading Network (ETN). An ETN is a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce network that combines secure electronic document delivery with a web-based interface to manage trading partnerships and document control. EnterpriseEC® leverages the Internet to reduce cost, increase visibility, and maximize the benefits of conducting business electronically.

For Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), data has traditionally been sent and received using proprietary, private networks. These networks, known as Value-Added Networks (VAN), provide e-Business trading communities with a secure, store-and-forward method of conducting Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce.

Many organizations that have historically used VAN services are now leveraging the Internet as a platform to cost-effectively conduct EDI with customers, suppliers, and other business partners. They are finding that in addition to lowering the cost of EDI, the Internet offers increased control and visibility of managing EDI relationships.

EnterpriseEC® exemplifies the benefits of leveraging the Internet to Connect, Integrate, Manage, and Expand e-Business trading communities.

 

 

Connect electronically to all of your business partners, cost-effectively and securely using the Internet.
 

Manage your partners and documents using a Web-based interface.
 

Save up to 70% vs. private networks. No long-term contracts, no monthly minimums.

 

Connectivity

Regardless of how a company wants to connect to EnterpriseEC®, or the myriad of ways its business partners prefer to send and receive data, EnterpriseEC® eliminates the complexity of supporting and managing multiple connectivity methods. Customers connect to EnterpriseEC® the way they want, and EnterpriseEC® handles connecting to all of its trading partners.

EnterpriseEC® supports all Internet-based communications protocols, including EDI-INT AS1 and AS2. In addition, EnterpriseEC® supports other non-Internet protocols, such as Async and Bisync dial-up communications.

An additional option is a Secure-FTP connection with software that is provided at no cost. Our EnterpriseEC® IP Connect software runs on any Microsoft® Windows® platform to automate and manage data communications with EnterpriseEC®.

  

 
 
 
 

Connecting to EnterpriseEC® is fast, flexible, and easy. Existing in-house systems require little or no change to leverage the benefits of EnterpriseEC®.

 
 

One of the many connectivity options to EnterpriseEC® is our free EnterpriseEC IP Connect software. This software provides a secure, economical way to connect to EnterpriseEC® using the Internet.

Built-in features to manage and automate sending and receiving data provide optimal communications visibility and ease-of-use.

The only requirement is a Windows-based system and a connection to the Internet.

 

    

Traditional VAN Inter-connectivity

One of the major benefits of using a traditional Value-Added Network is the fact that all major VANs interconnect with one another. This allows a customer of one VAN to send and receive data to business partners on other VANs without requiring accounts on multiple networks.

EnterpriseEC® accomplishes this same ability via a secure connection to IBM Business Exchange Services (BES). IBM is a leading provider of both traditional and Internet-based Value-Added Network services. EnterpriseEC® customers gain access to thousands of potential trading partners with the knowledge that traditional VAN inter-connectivity is being handled in the background by IBM.

 
 
 

Management

EnterpriseEC® provides a Web-based interface to easily manage your entire e-Business trading community. Multiple users gain access to a wide variety of information about trading partners and the data that they send and receive.

The EnterpriseEC® interface provides tools for monitoring the successful receipt of data by trading partners and the ability to automatically e-mail messages to trading partners who have not acknowledged receipt of data in a timely manner.

Technical personnel can view "raw" EDI data via the web, while other business units can access readable interpretations of the data with our EDI-to-XML conversion feature.

  

EDI-to-XML Conversion Feature for Readable Reports of EDI Data

View "Raw" EDI Data

Extensive Search Capabilities

Detailed and Summary Activity Reports

Account Access Control by Document Types

Automatic Acknowledgment Reconciliation
 

Multiple personnel can access an Easy-to-Use interface with user accounts controlled by account administrators.

 

  
 

 

EnterpriseEC® has summary and detail activity reports as well as overdue acknowledgment reports to monitor and verify that business partners have received and processed data that has been sent.

 

Extensive search capabilities allow personnel to search by EDI-specific information, such as Control Numbers, as well as relevant business criteria like Purchase Order Numbers and Invoice Numbers.

Personnel can utilize the search results to reprocess documents, access trading partner contact information, monitor document status, view "raw" EDI data, and verify whether documents were acknowledged.

For EDI data, our unique EDI-to-XML conversion feature provides accounting and other personnel with access to the contents of EDI data in a readable, printable report format.

 

  
 

 
EnterpriseEC® was designed to provide management of e-Business trading communities. By leveraging the economy of the Internet for communications, and providing a web-based interface to increase control and visibility of e-Business activity, our customers gain the maximum benefits inherent in electronic trading relationships.
EnterpriseEC is a service of Edict Systems, Inc. which has been in the business of providing Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce solutions since 1990. To learn more about us, please visit www.edictsystems.com.

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