Enabling business process automation with an integration solution that is affordable, flexible and scalable
WebSpan Integration Platform Combines Best-of-Breed IBM WebSphere and Hubspan Technologies
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• Simplified business process automation to address your critical integration needs • Scalable solution that easily expands as your needs grow with a cost-effective subscription pricing model • Industry-leading SaaS platform for on-demand integration that is reliable and secure • Any-to-any connections and integration, supporting all major protocols, standards, document types and applications Simplified Business Process Automation In today’s business world, it’s increasingly important to work closely with your business communities, including partners, customers, suppliers and colleagues. This requires an ability to share information and documents and to automate critical business processes. The benefits of business integration are many, including faster time to market, increased competitiveness, higher revenues and improved customer satisfaction, to name just a few.
However, business integration can be challenging and costly. In many cases, achieving crossenterprise collaboration and data exchange involves working with different IT systems, protocols and applications. Traditional approaches often require companies to purchase new hardware or software and employ internal resources to manage that infrastructure. WebSpan offers a powerful alternative, with an industry-leading SaaS integration platform that is flexible, scalable and cost-effective. With WebSpan, companies can easily address a wide range of integration challenges, from basic to complex, with minimal upfront cost, no management overhead and an assurance of interoperability.
Industry-leading SaaS Integration Platform and Technologies WebSpan is an enterprise-class integration platform that offers you the best of two worlds: Hubspan’s cloud-based platform, built on a solid foundation of proven technology and expertise, combined with IBM WebSphere integration software, with proven industry leadership and global implementations. The combined solution enables cost-effective, secure business integration and ease of scalability while optimizing the sharing of resources across partner communities.
WebSpan provides business process automation for the extended enterprise
WebSpan leverages a Software-as-a-Service model to reduce the cost and complexity of integrating collaborative processes within and between enterprises. As a cloud-based solution, WebSpan enables on-demand integration between companies, applications and business processes.
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WebSpan Packaged Integration Processes to Solve Your Business Challenges WebSpan streamlines integration across multiple business processes, from supply and demand chain to financial integration to Web commerce and more. Whether you need to improve the connections between you and your customers, enable a marketplace-commerce application with multiple vendors, integrate logistics automation, automate invoicing or any other business process, WebSpan has a solution that works for you.
• WebSpan iSupplyChain: Enables integration and collaboration with all businesses in the supply chain process, managing information exchange and automation of related processes • WebSpan iDemandChain: Provides seamless integration and document / message exchange between companies and their customers • WebSpan iLogistics: Simplifies the management and integration of flow of goods and resources and improves processes with third-party logistics (3PL) providers • WebSpan iCommerce: Mediates transactions and integration between e-commerce operations and their suppliers and customers • WebSpan iFinancial: Improves integration across financial institutions and their customers with the highest level of security
WebSpan enables interoperability across business communities and heterogeneous environments:
Protocols
• HTTP/S • FTP/S • SFTP • SMTP • AS2 • RNIF • VAN • REST • SOAP
Message Formats
• EDI (ANSI, X12, EDIFACT, Spec2000, Tradacoms, etc.) • Flat
Application Types
• On-premise (such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, WebSphere, etc.) • Web-based • SaaS-based • Legacy • Custom
File (CSV, FixedWidth, MultiRecord, etc.) Forms Specific (OCI, CIF, iDOC, etc.) Standards (PIDX, CIDX, AIA, etc.)
• XML (cXML, OAGIS, UBL/ebXML, RosettaNet, customized, etc.) • HTML
• Vendor
• Industry
• Custom (may require additional services)
Rather than a point-to-point or applicationto-application solution, WebSpan is an “Any to Any” platform for connections and integration. You can think of WebSpan as a “neutral” territory in this world of proprietary standards, as the platform works with just about everything.
Scalable and Cost-effective Solution to Meet Your Integration and Budget Requirements WebSpan is designed and priced for ease of deployment and scale. Customers have minimal up-front cost and no additional hardware or software requirements. Its subscription-based pricing allows companies to pay for the solution as an operating expense versus a capital expenditure. In today’s demanding economy, this
“pay-as-you-grow” model helps you tackle integration challenges by offering an affordable starting point. You can start with one business process or integration project and then easily add new processes and communities. Whether you are launching a new integration project, already have an existing solution or need to extend an existing integration process, WebSpan can help you vastly improve your overall automation and integration results. With WebSpan, you can lower your costs, raise your operational efficiencies and increase the positive impact integration has on your business.
WebSpan helps businesses reduce the cost, complexity and risk of integrating across internal and external communities:
Any-to-any Connections for Optimal Interoperability and Integration The goal of business integration is to make disparate business systems and processes interoperable. WebSpan is designed to work with a diverse set of standards. You benefit from the platform’s ability to resolve complex integration challenges and facilitate true interoperability. All members of the integration community can send and receive the exact information they need to process transactions through their backend systems in a frictionless manner.
Customer Integration Challenges
Limited IT budget: unable to budget capital costs for software Lack of integration and management skills in-house Feel enterprise class software is unattainable: complex and expensive Need fast time to value and quick deployments Need flexible model to start small and scale; prefer starting with one project and expanding as needed Have legacy systems and cannot afford updating infrastructure
WebSpan Customer Benefits
Cost-effective with zero capital expense required Simplified cloud-based solutions with integration services Enterprise-class solution designed for the mid market Rapid deployment in a matter of weeks with fast ROI Pay-as-you-grow subscription model ties cost to value with easy scalability Leverages existing infrastructure with no rip and replace
About WebSpan WebSpan is an enterprise-class SaaS integration platform that combines the Hubspan integration platform and IBM WebSphere integration software. WebSpan provides a cost-effective and scalable approach to integration while optimizing the sharing of resources across business communities. Thousands of companies, from small enterprises to the Fortune 500, successfully use the platform every day to achieve greater business collaboration. WebSpan is available in packaged integration processes focused on supply chain, demand chain, logistics, e-commerce, and financial integration, as well as custom integration solutions. For more information, go to www.hubspan.com/webspan or email webspan@hubspan.com.