B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

When you think about system integration, we bet that one of the first things that come to mind isn’t how much value you can deliver to your customers. Yet, system integration can deliver enormous value to customers.

This article explores the critical role of electronic data interchange and business-to-business integration in electronic commerce. EDI/B2B integration – the exchange of structured documentation between parties in the supply chain – allows for the easy, fast, and accurate communication of key data between trading partners. E-commerce, the purchase, and sale of goods over the internet has revolutionized business worldwide.

Executive Summary:

B2B data integration is the automation of transactions between two or more computer systems. It allows for the standardized formatting of data among trading partners, suppliers and customers so that business processes can flow smoothly and accurately.

Traditionally, most companies deployed digital integration solutions in an enterprise-centric manner that prioritized connecting business units to internal applications and business partners through standard EDI technologies. As a result, integration happened from the "inside-out", with internal systems dictating the level and extent of connections with external systems.

Data offers you a competitive advantage, but only when it’s integrated properly. Hybrid integration platforms allow seamless and secure data and application integration across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.