B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

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communication protocol, XML/EDI standard, delivery channel and
security requirements) unique to each trading partner relationship. Storing
all this information would greatly increase the speed of conducting
business and would enable companies to offer personalized services to
each customer, supplier and distributor.
Usually integration brokers provide a graphical administration tool,
which lets the users define and manage relationships (i.e., adding or
removing a new partner, granting and revoking access to privileges,
etc.) with each trading partner.
9.4.8. Security
Integration brokers should provide a complete security solution, using
encryption, PKI, digital authentication, digital certificates SSL and S/
MIME encryption. They should also maintain a transaction audit trail,
through which data privacy, data integrity and transaction non-repudiation
(i.e., non-repudiation of origin and non-repudiation of receipt) can be
ensured.
9.4.9. Scalability
Integration brokers should provide a scalable platform that can support
a company's business today and for years to come. They should be
optimized for multi-processor systems and enable load balancing and
failover solutions through a clustered architecture.
9.4.10. Transactional integrity
Integration brokers must provide transactional integrity (event-based
processing, exception handling and built-in recovery) at every step,
activity and node for each transaction and business process that flows
through them.
Typically, a business transaction is composed of several logical units
of work and each unit of work must be completed successfully in order
for the transaction to be committed. If even one unit of work fails, the
whole transaction fails and all completed units of work have to be
rolled back (reversed).