Data Sheet

Informatica B2B Data Exchange

A Modern Solution for Collaborative Partner Network
Data Integration.
Your IT organization needs to support many types of business processes, data formats,
Benefits
and communication protocols to address the specific needs of your company’s
• Out-of-the-box self- service customers and trading partners. To efficiently scale your inter-company data integration
partner portal for collaboration and manage it cost-effectively, you need tools for partner self-service and management.
and greater agility Informatica B2B Data Exchange empowers your IT organization to define processes and
transformation and lets business users configure these processes.
• Reduce implementation time
with comprehensive data The dynamic capability of Informatica B2B Data Exchange lets users designate
transformation capabilities to custom properties in any partner-specific data flow as configurable parameters in
handle unstructured data and trading partner profiles. Users can design and manage data transformation projects,
specialized formats along regardless of structure, all in a codeless and reusable manner. Users can upload and
with industry standard data download data to the partner network themselves with easy-to-use self-service tools.
Dynamic trading partner management then lets both your company and its partners
• Enhance productivity and create, edit, and manage partner profiles and define the specific data flows particular
ensure compliance with to a partner.
continuously updated
prepackaged data format Users can manage business events by viewing, monitoring, and reconciling them, as
standards and Accelerators well as diagnose and notify others of issues. Flexible, easily customized dashboards,
for EDI and other standards combined with out-of-the-box operational key performance indicator (KPI) charts, provide
a consolidated view of the partner data exchange. Allowed users can then monitor the
• Integrated Managed File data events for each partner and process and effectively respond to changes.
Transfer for secure, reliable
With visibility of the data throughout the exchange, your IT organization can successfully
and auditable file exchange,
implement, secure, track, and manage these highly complex data exchange activities.
utilizing automated server-
B2B Data Exchange lets IT:
to-server workflows
• Maintain the highest possible control and visibility around transactions and processes,
• Collaborate with trading ensuring compliance with regulations and service-level agreements
partners using web tools like
• Integrate external data with data within the firewall for a complete and comprehensive
Portal, Secure Email, Shared
view, improving decision making and increasing operational efficiency
Drive and Secure Folders.
• Leverage partner self-service to create collaboration and reduce the need for every
change to be implemented by your IT organization

• Gain end-to-end visibility with business event monitoring and audit trails

• Comply with data security policies and support encryption and compression

• Robust, versatile, and automated data transformation

Informatica B2B Data Exchange supports any-to-any data format transformations for
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data—all while complying with the leading
industry standards that govern those formats.
 Key Features
Universal data transformation monitoring, it pinpoint specific data format
Informatica B2B Data Exchange provides a discrepancies, validations, restrictions and
single, centralized, consistent, and reusable data enumerations, errors, failures, and exceptions and
generates relevant events and triggers. Its Event
transformation service that enables true any-to-any
Viewer enables you to see a list of events, search on
data transformation. It supplies unique support for
a specific one, and drill down to obtain information.
binary documents (e.g., PDF, Excel, Word) and large
Its web-based dashboards and analytics provide
batch file and real-time messages. It fully supports
diagnostics and analyses of business transactions,
complex flat files—including deep hierarchy, complex
enabling you to manage and monitor all aspects of
looping, delimited, and fixed- and variable-width
the data integration process.
data—and furnishes unparalleled support for complex
hierarchical industry standards (e.g., HIPAA, HL7, Partner and data source onboarding
NCPDP, ACORD, DTCC, EDI-X12, EDIFACT, SWIFT, With Informatica B2B Data Exchange, you can
FIX, NACHA, Telekurs). Providing native support for create detailed partner and partner data profiles
XML, the software enables enterprises to rely on and (including data sources, formats, and communication
leverage XML while integrating data. protocols). It lets IT define the data flow template with
configurable attributes or parameters in real time
Data event monitoring
and enables business analysts to define variables
Informatica B2B Data Exchange provides end-to- for the onboarding process. Informatica B2B Data
end visibility into data as it is integrated, plus deep Exchange provides a customizable checklist for
insight into data’s content as it changes with each onboarding EDI partners, enabling operations to
step of the process. Through field-level data events quickly see bottlenecks in the onboarding process
and proactively address these bottlenecks.
“Informatica [B2B Data Exchange] offered everything we were
looking for in terms of features, performance, stability, and long-
Quality-ensured data exchange
With Informatica B2B Data Exchange,
term sustainability. Together, these factors made Informatica a
comprehensive data quality processes can be
very easy choice.”
built directly into the data exchange process. This
– Peter Fliessgarten, Center for Information Technology, Deutsche guarantees that all data is complete, consistent,
Telekom
accurate, and current, regardless of where it resides.

Robust, scalable data integration

Informatica B2B Data Exchange lets you leverage
The Partner Portal Informatica PowerCenter to integrate customer and
Dashboard provides end- partner data from virtually any business system, in
to-end visibility into data
any format, with your company’s data and business
as it is integrated through
field-level data and event processes. It scales to support the integration of
monitoring. large data transactions as well as high-volume
data transactions, and it connects to virtually Its features include:
all databases and mainframes, plus flat files,
• File Transfer Portal: Person-to-person
messages, web services, and major connectivity
collaboration and file exchange browser-
systems. It provides common data services in a
based tool for employees, customers, and
service-oriented architecture that is interoperable
trading partners. Quickly and securely uploads,
with major connectivity, business process
downloads, and shares files with full audit trails.
management, and messaging systems.
• Shared Drive: An on-premises solution providing
Codeless, visual design and mapping Enterprise File Sync and Sharing (EFSS) for your
environment employees and partners.
Informatica B2B Data Exchange features a single, easy- • Secure Folders: Provides browser access to
to-use environment for designing, mapping, debugging, authorized files and folders on the server.
testing, and deploying to increase team collaboration.
• Secure Mail: Lets authorized users send
Secure connectivity through integrated messages and files as secure “packages” on
Managed File Transfer (MFT) an ad- hoc basis. Recipients get an email with
Informatica B2B Data Exchange provides a unique link to each package, allowing them to
enterprise-grade, security-ensured data/file download the message and files through a secure
transfer and support for common communications HTTPS connection.
protocols. The intuitive interface and extensive • Gateway: Reverse and forward proxy gateway
workflow featured in Informatica MFT helps to keep sensitive files out of the DMZ while
eliminate the need for traditional file transfer protecting the private network.
scripts, single-function tools, and manual
processes. Seamless integration and enhanced “Using Informatica [B2B Data Exchange], Zyme
features include integrated user and partner is onboarding EDI feeds faster than before—freeing
management, MFT templates and custom projects, up development resources to address other important
and integrated Tracking and Logging functionality— tasks.”
all with no additional license burden. —Ted Dimbero, Senior Vice President, Operations, Zyme Solutions

Protocols and Connectivity

MFT Protocols Message Queue Files Compression Database Servers
AS2 Websphere MQ Excel 2
SQL Server
FTP SonicMQ XML Oracle
FTPS ActiveMQ Delimited text files DB2
HTTP SwiftMQ Fixed width text files Derby
HTTPS Informix
SFTP Encryption Network Shares iSeries
SCP Open PGP SMB PostgreSQL
SSH GnuPG (GPG) CIFS Sybase
SMTP AES 256-bit encryption UNC
POP3 SSL NFS User Authentication
IMAP SSH Generic LDAP
Informatica MFT Servers ZIP with AES encryption Windows Active Directory
Informatica HTTPS
Servers SAML 2.03
ICAP1
1
For Antivirus & Data Loss Prevention
2
Microsoft Excel 2007 document (.xlsx) or previous Excel versions (.xls)
3
Web users SSO for File Transfer Portal
 Key Benefits
Reduced operational costs
Informatica B2B Data Exchange lets you make better, faster business decisions by
basing them on a complete view of all your data regardless of format, type, or where it
resides—inside your corporate firewalls or with your trading partners. It allows you to
respond more quickly and effectively to changing business needs with a complete and
About Informatica accurate view of corporate performance. The comprehensive transformation capability
reduces IT operational costs by automating the integration of all forms of data with less
Informatica is 100 percent
or no custom coding, streamlining multi-enterprise collaboration, and protecting and
focused on data because the
increasing revenue streams by conducting new business through broadened channels.
world runs on data. Organizations
need business solutions around
Streamlined management of interactions
data for the cloud, big data, real-
time and streaming. Informatica Informatica B2B Data Exchange streamlines the management of multi-enterprise
is the world’s No. 1 provider of interactions by enhancing visibility into and control over transactions with customers,
data management solutions, vendors, and trading partners. It enables you to find and fix problems in your multi-
in the cloud, on-premise or in a enterprise environment quickly and meet all service levels. It accelerates time to
hybrid environment. More than revenue by onboarding new customers and partners faster and at lower costs. It also
7,000 organizations around the accommodates the diverse and dynamic nature of all partners within a business
world turn to Informatica for
ecosystem to promote multi-enterprise operational efficiencies and collaboration.
data solutions that power their
businesses. Enhanced productivity and ensured compliance
Informatica B2B Data Exchange automates the integration of all forms of data with
prepackaged transformations for most industry and governmental standards and with
a prepackaged industry-specific workflow. This lets you eliminate custom code, reduce
implementation time by 50 percent to 80 percent, and decrease maintenance costs.
With a complete and regularly updated library of industry-specific data format standards
for banking, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, Informatica B2B Data Exchange
helps you ensure compliance with the most current industry and regulatory standards.
Frequent updates allow you to adapt to new requirements as soon as they emerge,
avoiding regulatory penalties and loss of data.

Secure management and tracking of B2B file exchange

Informatica B2B Data Exchange comes with integrated MFT capabilities that enable
organizations to securely manage and track all file exchange activities with their
trading partners.

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