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Solution Brief

Reduce the total cost of ownership of B2B integration

Highlights●● ● ●Leverage a community of over 300,000

preconnected trading partners.

●● ● ●Seamlessly automate and extend internal business processes to external partners.

●● ● ●Provide visibility into actionable informa-tion across key IT and business processes.

●● ● ●Accelerate the return on investment (ROI) of B2B projects and use internal resources where most needed.

Successful customer and partner engagement depends on agile business networks. However, companies across all industries are facing increasingly complex B2B integration problems, including protocols, governance, reliability, standards, data formats and integration technologies. Multiple integration platforms that do not scale, high cost of capital and personnel expense to own and operate B2B in house environment, and a lack of B2B skills, technology and processes represent additional struggles for organizations seeking to accelerate B2B collaboration and facilitate growth.

IBM® Sterling® B2B Integration Services enable companies to reduce the total cost of ownership of B2B integration, accelerate B2B collabora-tion and facilitate growth by managing the delivery and operation of part or all of their B2B integration infrastructure and processes. The IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network is a single secure connection for global B2B community reach. Seamlessly automate and extend inter-nal business processes to over 300,000 preconnected global partners and enable reduction of total cost of ownership for B2B projects.

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IBM Business Solutions on CloudIBM Business Solutions on Cloud reinvents business by trans-forming processes so that organizations can more effectively engage with employees, customers, citizens and extended com-munities. IBM has proven software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that can help you achieve the best out of cloud.

IBM Sterling B2B Integration ServicesHow do you currently find the resources you need to optimize and scale your B2B integration infrastructure to support the diverse ways your global trading partners want to do business and integrate business partner transactions with your back-end systems? Can you cost effectively prioritize the delivery of certain trading documents? And do you want to utilize your IT resources to optimize your B2B capability, or are there other business critical projects for them to focus on?

IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services are part of the IBM Business Solutions on the Cloud. The cloud-based services help companies reduce the total cost of ownership of B2B integration, accelerate B2B collaboration and facilitate growth managing the delivery and operation of part or all of their B2B integration infrastructure and processes.

Operating all or part of a company’s B2B integration infrastruc-ture and processes involves the following objectives:

●● ● Trading partner support. Multilingual and multitime zone support to meet the expectations of the extended global trading community.

●● ● B2B visibility. Trading partner connectivity requirements to eliminate manual processing errors and enable a single real-time view across the supply chain.

●● ● B2B process management. Skilled and experienced people required to optimize B2B business process.

●● ● B2B integration infrastructure. Secure and scalable to support the increasingly complex ways global trading partners want to do business.

IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services can help your enterprise improve business process efficiencies through visibility, auto-mate manual processes, reducing errors, provide visibility and control over collaborative processes, improve customer satisfac-tion, decrease trading partner onboarding times and reduce processing and transaction costs.

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How IBM supports youThe IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network is a global homogenous network supported by IBM’s history of innovation and research and development budget, and combines with IBM B2B Integration software products to provide a choice of on-premise, cloud, hybrid and managed solutions for seamless and secure integration with 100 percent of your business community. IBM’s innovation credentials, global breadth of solutions and domain expertise provide customers with the assurance of financial, product, service and market risk mitiga-tion. No other vendor has the combination of B2B integration, supply chain visibility, analytics and optimization capability, replenishment capability, and scale and global support.

About IBM Cloud ComputingIBM has helped thousands of clients adopt cloud models and manage millions of cloud-based transactions every day. IBM assists clients in areas as diverse as banking, communica-tions, healthcare, and government to build their own clouds or securely tap into IBM cloud-based business and infrastruc-ture services. IBM is unique in bringing together key cloud technologies, deep process knowledge, a broad portfolio of cloud solutions, and a network of global delivery centers. For more information about IBM cloud solutions, visit: ibm.com/smartcloud

For more informationTo learn more about IBM Cloud Services please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: ibm.com/smartcloud

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