nuBridges Exchange is a software solution
to secure, control, manage and view all your file transfer activity
through a centralized gateway.
The volume of eBusiness exchanges inside and outside organizational
boundaries is growing exponentially. With nuBridges Exchange you get
centralized control, secure transport, system-wide visibility and
guaranteed delivery – speeding supply chains, protecting your data
in motion, reducing transaction costs, and eliminating lots of
integration and file transfer headaches for your IT team.
Getting the right information to the right people faster and easier can
yield tremendous competitive advantage and squeeze out cost. nuBridges
Exchange is an ideal choice if you need to:
- Implement Managed File Transfer for centralized, secure control of internal and external file transfers between systems, applications and people
- Establish a complete B2B Gateway that supports structured B2B exchanges, a broad variety of protocols and robust trading partner management
Interoperable, Flexible, Blazingly Fast
nuBridges Exchange fits gracefully into your ecosystem. It supports
the protocols you need: sFTP (SSH), FTPs (SSL), FTP with PGP, HTTPs
and AS2. It runs on the platforms you want:
Windows, Solaris,
AIX, HP UX, Linux and OS/400. It supports any document type or size –
EDI (X12, EDIFACT, ASNI X.12), binary files (text, graphics,
spreadsheets), Rosettanet, XML and others. It handles transfers to and
from mainframe, midrange and workstation endpoints. It’s
designed to scale with your needs – even if you start small, support
for unlimited file sizes, high performance and high availability are
there when you need them.
nuBridges Exchange Highlights
Here are some highlights that illustrate the power and flexibility of
nuBridges Exchange:
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Elegant Implementation and Operation
For the IT user, configuring information exchanges, protocols, profiles, authorizations and certificates for individuals and groups is fast and accurate – for both internal and external file transfers
From an operational standpoint, nuBridges Exchange uses a completely Web-based user interface. It can be accessed using any standard browser, providing easy end-user access to business, administrative and operational information – assuming they have the proper credentials based on their role. This includes transaction tracking, exception management, scheduling and organization/resource configuration.
Defining document exchanges and schedules is quick and easy in a browser. Scheduling allows you to define tasks on a one-time or recurring basis within your sequencing parameters. One use of this ensures that documents are delivered within scheduling windows to meet SLA (service level agreement) requirements.
Intuitive, Centralized Trading Partner Management
Trading Partner Management is always an issue for companies. How do you
keep track of each business partner’s latest contact information as well
as all of the details about how they want to interact with you? What
communications protocols do they accept? What security mechanisms do
they utilize? Are there specific requirements they have for documents?
nuBridges Exchange provides a central intuitive console for all of these
important activities. Users are associated with roles and these
determine the abilities of users to access or not access certain
operations. The Web-based interface makes this easier so no software
needs to be installed locally on each desktop. The contact list feature
allows for configurable distribution lists for alerts and notifications.
Integration, Interoperability, Guaranteed Delivery
- Integrates with any hierarchical file system to transfer any type of document
- Supports exchanges among most platforms (mainframe, System i, Windows, UNIX, Linux and more) and databases (Oracle, DB2 and more)
- Multiple protocols:
- AS2 Client and Server (Drummond Group Certified interoperability)
- HTTP client and server with optional SSL
- FTP client and server with SSL or SSH
- FTP client proxy
- HTTP client proxy
- SSL2 and SSL3/TLS1
- SSH
- Ability to call out to any custom program or script at the beginning or end of a transaction
- Automatic session retry - if a transaction fails for any reason, delivery is retried based on your configuration options
- Store-and-forward mailboxing (files can be held in a mailbox until the next time the recipient connects – whether the recipient is an application or a person)
- PGP support (encrypt prior to transport or decrypt at the destination)
- Key and certificate management
- Encryption for all communication channels
- DMZ proxy—no inbound firewall openings
- Intrusion detection
- User name and password authentication
- No data stored in temporary storage
nuBridges Exchange provides document level encryption and decryption regardless if the document is at rest or in transport. All keys are managed for all protocols. And keys can be rotated as needed to support internal policies or external mandates.
No sensitive or critical information should ever exist in clear text and that means making sure that all communications channels are encrypted. Security profiles are set up so that each one is specifically configured and associated to a user and business partner.
Enabling intrusion detection and limiting the number of openings in firewalls is important from a security perspective as well. nuBridges Exchange allows no inbound firewalls to be open at anytime – this is the ultimate in security when dealing with external partners.
Control and Business Activity Monitoring
nuBridges Exchange puts business process control into the hands of business users, technical and non-technical alike. It provides dashboard visibility into all transfer activity for auditing, end-to-end tracking of every data transfer, monitoring and advanced search. Graphs and report views are easy to understand and ideal for compliance reporting.
At the transactional level, all actions are also recorded regarding
the business documents, who sent and received them, the batches in which
they were exchanged, and any scheduled activities which were executed.
You can also search the activity logs by date, priority, category, and
description to show only the information you are interested in.
- Designed for ultra-fast performance
- Supports data compression for much faster transfer times
- Handles any file size – 3 GB clinical trial data? 5 GB CAD/CAM file? No problem!
- Handles unlimited file transfer volumes
- Handles unlimited trading partners – from 5 to thousands
- Supports highly redundant, clustered configurations for 100%
availability, modular architecture automates dynamic scaling and
fail-over capabilities and eliminates single point of failure
- For failover: Self-promoting servers, notification of system failure by self-promoting servers
- For load balancing: Add servers where needed, run multiple instances on a server to leverage multi-core CPUs.
We’d
be happy to schedule a short online presentation where we can provide
more details and answer questions specific to your environment and
needs. Let us know how to reach you and we’ll call within one business
day.
