EXTOL EDI Integrator (EBE) is an integrated software extension of EXTOL’s Business Integrator (EBI) product. It provides a combination of integration services, tools, and metadata needed to create, deliver, manage, and maintain EDI collaborations, extending the services and tools foundation used in EBI to support non-EDI collaborations and business integration.

In conjunction with its EBI foundation, EBE enables you to rapidly create, test, and deliver inbound and outbound EDI integration processes, including “lights-out” synchronization with your enterprise applications and data. Using a combination of automated tools, built-in EDI collaboration logic, and object reuse, EBE lets you implement processes that send and receive orders, invoices, shipment notices, or use any other standard EDI message type faster and easier than with competing integration products.

With EXTOL EDI Integrator, you can:

• Automate “lights-out” integration between external partners and internal applications and data
• Install in minutes and produce custom EDI integration processes in hours, without coding
• Integrate with external partners using X12 or EDIFACT EDI, including their subsets
• Integrate directly or indirectly with ERP and other enterprise application systems
• Process high volumes of EDI data in narrow time windows
• Implement collaborations using mixed syntaxes (EDI, XML, flat file) and communications *
• Automate generation and reconciliation of functional acknowledgements
• Send notifications to alert relevant personnel about EDI processing status and exceptions
• Activate EDI processes based on events, schedules, data flows, or application CALLs
• Rapidly create or extend EDI collaborations by reusing existing integration components
• Choose from multiple deployment options, with identical capabilities on all platforms

* Note: B2B integration using non-EDI syntaxes (XML, flat files, spreadsheets, web services) is supported by optional EXTOL Data Integrators that integrate seamlessly with the EBE product.