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EDI Accelerator for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004:

The Product

    The EDI Accelerator has been implemented as a fully integrated Adapter within the BizTalk Server 2004 architecture. The EDI Adapter surfaces as a Transport on both Send Ports and Receive Locations.

    This integrated approach means that configuration and management is mainly done from within one toolset. The design time tasks are done from within the Visual Studio.Net hosted applications like the Schema Editor and the Mapper. All mappings for either XML or EDI are done with the BizTalk Mapper. The run time management is done using the standard BizTalk Server tools like BizTalk Administration Console and Health and Activity Tracking.

Features

Covast understands the integration issues businesses are faxing today. That's why Covast EDI Accelerator for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 was designed to provide the most robust combination of functionality of any EDI to XML solution available.

Some functionality highlights are:

• Customizable outbound batching
• Inbound de-batching
• Syntax validation
• Semantic validation
• Functional Acknowledgment handling on Document and Group level
• Timeouts for acknowledgments due
• Control number enforcement
• Custom control number generation
• Full end-to-end tracking and audit trails
• Archiving of exchanged transactions
• Access to EDI Envelope information from within a mapping
• Detailed error information on the element level
• Visualize error details with exact error positions
• Interchange or Document error levels
• SQL Repository driven
• Document versioning
• Standards import facilities
• Full compliance checking
• Customizable standard document definitions
• Implicit XML to EDI and vice versa conversation support
• Trading partner specific handling (separators, numbering, implementation guide)
• Scheduling of EDI Batches
• Customizable EDI Envelopes

The following EDI formats and standard are supported:

• X.12 (U.S.)
• TA1 (X.12 Interchange Acknowledgment Support)
• VICS (U.S. general merchandise retail)
• WINS (U.S. warehousing retail)
• UCS (U.S. grocery retail)
• EDIFACT (Worldwide)
• EANCOM (Europen retail)
• Tradacoms (U.K.)
• VDA (German automotive)
• Odette (Automotive)
• XML
• Cargo-IMP (Airfreight)
• Gencod (France)
• Name/Value Pairs
• Proprietary
• Other (user configurable)

The following Value Added Networks are supported:

• Atlas 400 (France)
• BusinessMail (Germany)
• GEIS EDI*Express
• IBM Information Exchange
• ICC.net
• Inovis
• Kleinschmidt
• SITA
• Sterling Commerce
• Tradanet (U.K.)
• Transettlements
• Uniplus 400 Net (Netherlands)
• Worldcom EDI*Net

The following peer-to-peer communication protocols are supported:

• AS2 (optional)
• OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol)
• FTP
• POP3/SMTP
• MSMQ
• IBM MQSeries
• HTTP and HTTP/s