B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

144 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce
Business
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Man Jig* mn nt Process Mod eli ng
Automato:
Workflow
Process Automatio r
Figure 5.13. — Vitria automator connects EAI, B2B processes
ongoing business processes as per user-defined rules based on the
feedback received from the real world live process execution.
BusinessWare allows a separation of business process definition
from back-end integration and system issues, which is a key feature.
The business processes are best understood by businesses and the
people running them, hence the processes should be left to them to
design and manage.
5.3.3. Extricity B2B Alliance Manager
Extricity B2B Alliance Manager provides an integrated development
environment for modeling graphically inter-company business processes
and defining business objects (the data that is exchanged). The resulting
workflows define the sequence of events, the partners and the logic. The
development environment supports event triggers, threaded conversations,
timing control, conditional logic, alternative and parallel routing of
documents and more.
Extricity offers B2B Process Paks, which are packaged process
solutions that enable organizations in specific industries to fast track the
development of business with their trading partners. Process Paks make
implementation faster and easier by delivering unique best-practice B2B
processes that work the way organizations want them to work. One can
modify and customize the Process Paks, working in the intuitive dragand-drop
environment provided by the software solution.
Presently, Extricity provides Process Paks for the following industries:
Consumer Packaged Goods, E-retailers, Logistics Services, Net Markets,
RosettaNet and Semiconductors.