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API-enabled EDI solutions
An EDI solution with API capabilities allows external applications, such as customer portals and mobile apps, to
access all the EDI services using APIs. REST APIs expose EDI services and unlock new "EDI as a Service" capabilities,
giving users direct access to transfer-related information through a mobile app or access portal.
Benefits of API-enabled EDI:
• Offers a single point of user administration
• Provides flexibility to generate custom applications for improved customer interactions
• Simplifies and speeds up new business interaction implementations
• Brings self-service qualities to EDI interactions
• Reduces total cost of ownership through consolidation
• Exposes governance services and permits partners to build their own governance applications
• Centralizes security and simplifies identity and access management
• Provides visibility into onboarding status
The combination of EDI transaction processing and exposure of APIs provide supply chain companies new methods
to reach their global communities. The use of API technology supports mobile initiatives and takes the place of
telephone, fax or email orders. In this scenario, companies have the ability to build mobile applications to interact with
the suppliers or with the customers. An order can be placed with a supplier through traditional EDI technology, but the
order is received by the supplier via their mobile application and acknowledged with a functional acknowledgment
(FA) just like the rest of the traditional EDI orders are managed.
Such extensions of traditional EDI exchange patterns open new revenue opportunities for trading partners. They are
managed and monitored with the same transaction visibility and notification processes, enabling greater control and
data flow governance.
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EDI WS/API
Web Mobile Cloud Identity
Services
An API-enabled EDI solution lets external applications
access EDI services through APIs.
Any-to-Any Protocol Mediation
Data
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