TDM slide deck The following slides are intended to be for a more technical audience (Solutions Sales Specialist, MCS etc.)

– EDI and AS2 Solutions for 2004

Where does EDI fit in BizTalk Server?

Architecture

Stack Chart of EDI Functionality What is needed to “do” EDI? –EDI Auditing, managing & monitoring –End-to-End acknowledgements –EDI formats and document types support –Control numbering –Syntactic and Semantic validation –Batching facilities –Communication Protocols Auditing Acknowledgements Formats and Types Control Numbering Validation Batching Communication

Native EDI – What Can It Do? Auditing Acknowledgements Formats and Types Control Numbering Validation Batching Communication Auditing Acknowledgements Formats and Types Control Numbering Validation Batching Communication Native EDIEDI Accelerator

Native EDI – What Can It Do? BizTalk Native EDI will suffice when: –You only use a limited number of standard X12 or EDIFACT messages –Don’t need batching –You don’t need VAN or other EDI specific communications

BizTalk “out of the box versus Covast EDI Accelerator summary FeatureBTS 2004 EDI out of the boxCovast EDI Accelerator ANSI X 12 versions and transaction sets Specific versions and documents supported: 2040: 810, 832, 846, 850, 855, 856, 861, 864, 867, : 810, 832, 846, 850, 852, 855, 856, 861, 864, 867, : 810, 832, 846, 850, 852, 855, 856, 861, 864, 867, 940, 944, : 810, 832, 846, 850, 852, 855, 856, 861, 864, 867, 940, 944, 997 ALL versions and transaction set of ANSI X 12 (as well as subsets such as VICS, UCS, WINS) UN/EDIFACT versions and messages Specific versions and documents supported: D93A: DESADV, INVOIC, INRPT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, PARTIN, PAYEXT, PRICAT, SLSRPT D95A: APERAK, DESADV, INVOIC, INVRPT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, PARTIN, PAYEXT, PRICAT, SLSRPT D95B: APERAK, DESADV, INVOIC, INVRPT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, PARTIN, PAYEXT, PRICAT, SLSRPT D97B: APERAK, DESADV, INVOIC, INVRPT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, PARTIN, PAYEXT, PRICAT, PRODAT, RECADV, SLSRPT D98A: APREAK, CONTRL, DESADV, INVOIC, INVRPT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, PARTIN, PAYEXT, PRICAT, PRODAT, RECADV, SLSRPT D98B: APREAK, CONTRL, DESADV, INVOIC, INVRPT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, PARTIN, PAYEXT, PRICAT, PRODAT, RECADV, SLSRPT ALL version and messages of UN/EDIFACT + standards used with Europe such as EANCOM, TRADACOM, ODETTE, VDA, GENCOD Functional Acknowledgments Not supported BatchingNot supported VAN – Communication support Not supported Validation Very limited validationExtensive validation according to the standard

EDI Accelerator - Communication Value Added Networks –Atlas400, BusinessMail –GXS EDI*Express –IBM Information Exchange –ICC.Net –Inovis –Kleinschmidt –SITA –Sterling Commerce –GXS Tradanet –Transettlements –Uniplus 400 Net –Worldcom EDI*Net Peer-to-Peer –AS2 –OFTP –FTP –POP3/SMTP –MSMQ –IBM MQSeries –HTTP –HTTP/s

EDI Accelerator - Batching EDI Interchanges consist of multiple documents or even document types to be sent to one recipient –Cut communication costs –Group logical batches of documents Batching can be configured on the Send Port level from within the BizTalk Explorer It can also be influenced from within a BizTalk Mapping

EDI Accelerator - Validation All EDI Interchanges and Messages are validated agains the specification stored in the EDI Repository. The following is validated: –Syntax –Mandatory elements and composites –Segment repetition –Separators –Maximum and Minimum lengths –Types –Code sets –Semantics (inter-segment and element relationships)

EDI Accelerator - Validation

EDI Accelerator – Control Numbers Each EDI transaction is treated as a unique business document exchanged with a Trading Partner This means that the transactions need unique identifiers Control numbers can be generated per type of message and/or per Trading Partner They can also be Transactional – meaning that no gaps will occur in the numbers and therefore the remote party can check if ALL transactions have been received Inbound duplicates are NOT allowed

EDI Accelerator – Formats and Types Supported formats: –X12 (U.S.) –VICS (U.S. General Merchandise Retail) –WINS (U.S. Warehousing) –UCS (U.S. Grocery Retail) –EDIFACT (Worldwide) –EANCOM (European Retail) –Tradacoms (U.K.) –VDA (German Automotive) –Odette (Automotive) –Cargo-IMP (Airfreight) –Gencod (France) –Name/Value pairs –Proprietary –Other (User Configurable)

EDI Accelerator - Acknowledgements Full End-to-End handling of Functional and Technical Acknowledgments –X (Functional) and TA1 (Technical) –EDIFACT CONTRL (Functional) Interchange, Group and Document level acknowledgements Time-out handling Full reporting via Health and Activity Tracking (HAT)

EDI Accelerator - Auditing All EDI documents passing through the EDI Accelerator are recorded in the database (metadata) and on disk (the EDI files themselves) Timestamps for Receive, Translate and Hand-off to BizTalk MessageBox on the inbound Timestamps for Receive, Translate and transmission to the EDI Partner on the outbound Archive & Delete scheduler – prepare for storage on Tape or CD for legal purposes

EDI Accelerator - Auditing