As companies in every industry expand the number and variety of their Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) remains at the center of Electronic Commerce.  But EDI is also changing, in ways never envisioned by its original architects. 

Today's businesses confront new requirements to integrate EDI more effectively with business processes and applications, support heterogeneous communication channels, exchange new kinds of business documents and transactions, and implement complex, multi-partner collaborations, while continuing to reduce errors and turnaround time. 

Meeting these requirements is more than a technical challenge; it is a business necessity.

	Integrate EDI and non-EDI connections seamlessly with internal business processes and IT systems.
	Solve complex EDI problems without costly, error-prone, and time consuming programming.
	Respond faster to partners by automating EDI processes, based on business events, schedules, and data flows.
	Extend your integration reach to include non-EDI processes, using common middleware, tools and skills.
	Deliver results faster, with fewer resources, by exploiting platform-independent specification and reuse.

EXTOL EDI Services is an integrated software extension of EXTOL's Business Integrator product.  It provides a combination of services, tools, and metadata needed to create, deliver, manage, and extend EDI collaborations, based on the same integration services and tools foundation used to support non-EDI collaborations and business integration.

With EXTOL EDI Services, you can:

	Deliver EDI collaborations that integrate with applications and IT resources across platforms
	Process mixed inbound batches containing EDI, XML and other data
	Automate generation and reconciliation of functional acknowledgements
	Activate EDI processes based on events, schedules, data flows, or applications CALLs
	Rapidly create or extend EDI collaborations by reusing existing integration components
	Choose from multiple deployment options, with identical capabilities on all platforms

Platforms Supported:

Windows IBM i Linux