Integrated Control & Security for all B2B traffics

File transfer and EDI solutions are well established B2B infrastructure in many enterprises. In the last ten years integration architecture has expanded into Cloud, mobile, and SOA, prompting enterprise architects to rationalize how to consolidate existing B2B platforms into an enterprise-wide infrastructure to improve efficiency and governance. Protocol translation, message transformation, authentication, authorization, message routing are examples of common integration tasks applicable across all integration channels. Vordel API Server operates as a single B2B gateway for all trading platforms and B2B servers, with interoperability across all enterprise data traffics over HTTP, FTP, JMS, MQ and TCP.

In Depth Security Across All Levels with Vordel B2B Gateway

Vordel API Server as a B2B gateway provides B2B servers with multiple layers of protection. Starting with transport level security, Vordel API Server provides SSL termination and port level protection. Vordel API Server is a policy enforcement point for authentication and authorization policies. Vordel provides out-of-the-box integrations with all the leading identity and access management platforms. The API Server can mediate security tokens and other form of credentials to simplify authentication of partner, user and machine. At the message level, Vordel API Server scans and prevents message level threats in real-time; preventing attacks such as denial-of-service and executable attachments. Vordel API Server performs encryption, signing and certificate validation to ensure data integrity and non-repudiation.

Traffic Management & Acceleration with Vordel B2B Gateway

Vordel API Server manages traffic going to B2B servers. This includes message routing based on document type, protocol, partner profile, and service agreement. The API Server can enrich message header and content with data fetched from repositories of partner profile and master data. Vordel API Server can throttle, block, and divert traffic to maintain service level, as well as to prevent a malfunctioning partner service from overloading the B2B server. The API Server can also improve overall system performance by offloading CPU intensive tasks from the B2B server, such as XML parsing, schema validation, signing, and encryption.

Protocol Translation & Message Transformation with Vordel B2B Gateway

B2B communication protocols and message types are extremely diverse, with many industry specific standards. Vordel API Server supports popular standard protocols such as FTP, SFTP, ebXML and EDIINT (AS2/AS3/AS4). The API Server’s flexible policy framework can integrate easily with third-party protocol libraries. Additional protocol support can be added using Vordel's powerful Policy Studio and SDK. Vordel API Server offers organizations a flexible B2B gateway capable of wire-speed transformation, improving an enterprise's ability to accommodate protocol requirements from a diverse trading partner ecosystem.