Simple, Secured Integration for a Distributed Enterprise with Vordel B2B Client

On-boarding a new trading partner or remote location requires sorting out interoperability issues with security, policy, and technology. For third-parties and independent business units, this can also involve integration to another identity management infrastructure. On-boarding and supporting a large number of partners and remote locations on a one-off basis is not scalable. Vordel API Server provides enterprise IT a simple way to on-board and support partner integrations using a pre-configured appliance. Vordel API Server greatly simplifies tasks such as: identity federation, policy negotiation, identity management integration, key and certificate management. Vordel recommends virtual or hardware appliance form factors for convenient deployments on-premise or in the Cloud.

Pre-built Integration with Client-Side Identity Management System

When integrating with business partners, one of the major challenges is identity and access management integration. Business partners like to authenticate locally using their on-site enterprise directory, enforce their own access policies or single sign-on to your services. This often results in deploying fragile custom code on the client side or adding complicated schemes on the provider side. Vordel API Server offers out-of-the-box integrations to all the leading identity management products. Vordel API Server can translate a proprietary browser security cookie to a SAML security token and insert the token into the service request. Using Vordel’s tested and supported integrations will improve your overall system management and reliability.

Packaged & Pre-Configured Integration with Vordel B2B Client

Securing service calls and data exchange across the Internet involves working through many details, such as authentication token format, port configuration and certificates. These tasks can be more difficult if the client-side system has limited ability to support security standards and protocols, and be fault tolerance. When deployed as a B2B client, Vordel API Server fills client-side system deficiencies and provides the necessary transformation and protocol support so service provider can deploy a standardized implementation across all clients. Vordel API Server offers pre-configured integration protocols, security policies and artefacts; plus required logging and traceability to enable on-going administration.

Distributed Processing To Maximize System Performance with Vordel B2B Client

Vordel API Server as a B2B client operates as an extension of the provider-side API Server. The client-side API Server has full operational and security capabilities that can be leveraged to offload many tasks from the provider-side infrastructure. In certain scenarios, this distributed architecture can greatly improve overall system performance and reliability by reducing traffic volume across the network, eliminating unnecessary transmission of sensitive data, and simplifying provider-side infrastructure.