EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI) is platform-independent business integration middleware, with seamless support for “lights-out” business-to-business (B2B), Software as a Service (SaaS), internal application (A2A) and data integration.

It is designed to replace – and bridge the gaps between – conventional EDI translators, data integration tools, business process automation tools, web services toolkits, XML transformation toolkits and spreadsheet integrators. EBI spans this broad range of capabilities by providing a flexible set of integration services that can be combined and configured to suit a variety of business purposes, without programming.

EBI targets wide-ranging business integration requirements, including:

• B2B Integration: Automated processing and integration with trading partners, based on X12 or EDIFACT EDI, standard or non-standard XML, flat files, or spreadsheets, with business applications and data
• SaaS Integration: Integration of internal applications and data with hosted applications “in the cloud”
• Service-Oriented Integration: Creation and consumption of standard web services and REST (Representational State Transfer) services, for internal or external integration
• Application Integration: Automation of business and application processes, through non-invasive integration of application inputs, outputs, and events
• Data Integration: Extraction transformation, and delivery / syndication of business data in support of business intelligence applications, trading partner processes, application migration, and other data-centric activities

With EBI, you can handle these and other business integration problems individually or in any combination required by your business. You can use EBI to implement simple, point-to-point solutions that automate parts of larger business processes, or to implement longer, more complex business processes that connect applications, trading partner connections, services, and business data resources.

EXTOL Business Integrator includes a powerful and highly flexible set of business integration services, including process automation, data transformation, messaging and communications, event management, scheduling, and adapter-based connections to internal and external sources and targets, as well process monitoring, auditing, and governance tools. It integrates seamlessly with your existing applications and business processes, through business events, schedules, application actions, or explicit process invocations.

The companion EXTOL Integration Studio (EIS) is a highly productive, model-driven, design-time environment for creating, testing, and maintaining integrated systems that run on EBI. EIS is designed to enable IT staffs with limited skills to tackle the full range of supported integration capabilities with a consistent set of core concepts and basic skills that can be reused over multiple, dissimilar projects.

EBI complements and integrates with other EXTOL products to provide additional capabilities in support of specific business integration needs, including:

• Integration with customers, suppliers, and other external partners, using X12 or EDIFACT EDI (EXTOL EDI Integrator)
• Integration with mySAP ERP (EXTOL Enterprise Adapter for SAP)
• Integration with Oracle e-Business Suite (EXTOL Enterprise Adapter for Oracle)
• Global Data Synchronization with the 1SYNC data pool (EXTOL Data Synchronizer)
• Secure AS2 communications (EXTOL Secure)
• Internet-based VAN services (EXTOL Portal)

Additional applications and integration options are supported directly by the EBI product.