EXTOL Products Overview

EXTOL offers an affordable and highly flexible range of products that improve process efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize errors, by automating integration activities in companies like yours. Time savings of up to 70% are possible for projects that integrate many different document types.

EXTOL offers two core integration product sets with overlapping communications, platform, and EDI support:

• EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI): A general-purpose integration broker suite that supports multiple kinds of integration applications on multiple platforms. The EBI product family includes integration options for EDI, XML, database, flat file, and spreadsheet integration. It also integrates with optional AS2 communication and VAN services.

• EXTOL EDI Integrator for i (EEI): A native B2B integration solution for IBM System i that supports multiple EDI standards, as well as flat files. EEI also integrates with optional AS2 communication and VAN services.

The chart below summarizes the main differences between the two product sets. To adjust the amount of detail shown, click the "+" and "-" controls on the left.

Integration Application Scope

Cross-platform business integration

Native EDI integration for IBM System i

	Cloud Integration (SaaS, web services, hubs)
	B2B Integration (EDI and other)
	Application-to-Application integration
	Data Integration and Data Synchronization

Data standards and formats

	EDI
	X12
	EDIFACT
	TRADACOMMS
	XML Documents
	Flat files
	Spreadsheets
	Database

Application endpoints

	Infor MAPICS
	Infor BPCS
	JD Edwards World / OneWorld / EnterpriseOne
	Manhattan Associates
	Oracle E-business Suite
	SAP R3 / BusinessOne
	TMW Suite
	TMW IES
	In-house applications

DBMS endpoints

	IBM DB2 i
	Other RDBMS

Communications options

	Web services
	AS2	Optional	Optional
	FTP/S
	SMTP
	Messaging
	VAN

Platforms

	Windows
	Linux
	IBM i (System i)