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ECXpert

Presented By:

Nick Marchetti

ECXpert Product Manager

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Strategic Venture

Market leader in

developing and marketing

Internet and Intranet

software solutions

World’s leading provider

of business-to-business

electronic commerce

services

The Internet commerce application software company

“The extraordinary scope of Actra has huge ramifications for the rest of the eCommerce field… Forrester sees an unusual winning combination here.” - April 1996

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Actra Business Systems

Actra develops electronic commerce

software applications designed specifically

to run over the Internet protocols

Open, extensible and scalable software

Leverage and/or establish open standards

125 employees

Based in Sunnyvale, California

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ECXpert

Internet-centric electronic commerce

messaging software

A business document gateway

Secure business-to-business electronic

commerce over Internet protocols

Begin to harness the Internet’s high

return-on-investment (ROI) potential

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ECXpert

Enables an organization to do EDI over public (TCP/IP) and private networks

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Partner A

Trading

Partner B

Trading

Partner C

Trading

Partner D

IStore credit card processing

Internet

VAN ECXpert

Order

Management

Production

Management

Logistics

Management

Financial

Management

Service Manager

Meta

Data Store

TCP/ IP Interconnectivity

Comm

Server Translator

Browser Suite Spot Extended

Applications

ECXpert is the foundation of an

Internet commerce infrastructure

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ECXpert Components

Communications

Security

Document

Management

Data

Transformation

Services Manager

Browser-based

User Interface

Open Architecture

Web Forms Tools

Scalability

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Communications

Open, standard support of SMTP and

S/MIME

Point-to-point electronic commerce transfer

protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

and private TCP/IP

Connections to EDI VAN’s via FTP and

asynchronous outbound

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System Security

Employs certificates, encryption,

authentication, data integrity, and

digital signatures, MDN

Via the open, standard S/MIME,

established by the IETF EDI Working

Group

CommerceNet interoperability pilot

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Document Management

Mailboxing facility allows message data to

be retrieved on demand, or stored until a

scheduled time for processing

Tracking services that reconcile and

generate acknowledgments, and provide

reporting and event notifications

Supports Oracle relational database

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Data Transformation

“Any-to-Any” data transformation

EDI standards mapper/translator

Supports ANSI ASC X12, EDIFACT, UCS,

other public standards, and user-defined

formats

High-performance, easy-to-use, Windows

based mapping tool

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Services Management

Manages the execution of tasks performed

on a unit of work

Services include:

– Parse

– Translate

– FAGen

– Gateway

– User defined services

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Browser-Based User Interface

Universal client

System administration

Trading partner set-up

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Open Architecture

Open architecture

Integrate user written programs or

third party products

– Continue to use an existing EDI translator

instead of replacing it

– Existing communications software

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Web Forms Tools

Extend your EC program to the Internet

Forms-based EDI for small trading partners

Ability to create custom HTML/Java forms

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Scalability

Multi-threaded processes that can be

distributed across platforms

Designed to operate in environments

ranging from NT workstation to a

multiprocessor UNIX platform

Version 1.0

– Sun SPARC Solaris 2.5.1

– NT Workstation and NT Server

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Benefits of ECXpert

Leverage Internet technology to implement

a cost-effective, easy-to-use electronic

commerce program

Integrated system for communications,

membership, and data transformation

Address all of your data exchange

requirements with one system

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Benefits of ECXpert

Browser-based user interface for

installation, document management,

administration tasks, and reporting

Multi-threaded, distributable design, to take

advantage of today’s sophisticated

computing environments

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FTP Async

VAN

Trading

Partners

VAN

Trading

Partners

Internet

Trading

Partners

Internet

Trading

Partners

SMTP (S/MIME)

HTTP (SSL), FTP

Direct Connect

Trading Partners

FTP

Private

TCP/IP

Existing Business

Applications

ECXpert NT / UNIX

FTP TCP/IP

Traditional

EDI VAN

Internet

ECXpert

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ECXpert Architecture

Mapping/Translation

Parse

Services Manager

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Service

List(s)

• Identify Sender,

Receiver, Doc Type

•Establish Tracking ID

•Execute Service List

•Monitor & Control

Activity

•Update Audit Trail

Data Manager

Service

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Directory Audit

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Inbound

ECXpert

Outbound

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Actra’s Distribution Strategy

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Commerce

Master

Distributors

Portfolio