ACTRA ECXPERT
INTERNET ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
MESSAGING SOFTWARE
Actra ECXpert, the foundation of Actra CrossCommerce application solutions family, is the electronic commerce software solution for business-to-business electronic data interchange (EDI) over the Internet and non-Internet networks. Actra ECXpert enables companies to build an Internet-based electronic commerce program. Key advantages include secure communications, standards-based, interoperable technology, wide accessibility, reduced implementation and operational costs, and investment protection of legacy systems.
ECXpert provides numerous benefits for your organization:
- Leverage internet standards while providing practical tools and features designed to work with your existing systems.
- Obtain a total, integrated system for communications, membership, and data transformation, rather than a system that is nothing more than loosely assembled components.
- Maximize today's computing environment by using processes that are designed specifically with a multi-threaded, distributable architecture without throughput bottlenecks.
- Address all of your company's data exchange
requirements because the system is especially
designed to handle broad data types such as:
- EDI
- non-EDI
- objects
- binary files
- documents
- HTML forms and many more - Use the browser-based user interface for installation, document management, administration tasks, and reports.
- Tackle simple and complex data transformation tasks with state-of-the-art, drag-and-drop, graphical mapping.
- Leverage sophisticated membership access controls based on user roles and responsibilities
THE INTERNET COMMERCE CHALLENGE
Actra ECXpert is a messaging and application integration software product for businesses that face the challenge of effectively sharing data across applications, both within and outside the enterprise.
ECXpert embodies a powerful underlying framework that efficiently handles secure data communications over private and public networoks, as well as EDI mapping and translation. Furthermore, ECXpert can handle a broad range of object range or object types, not just traditional EDI data.
Whether your company is experienced or new to electronic commerce (EC) programs, you are confronted with the following problems:
- How do I realistically leverage the Internet's potential to extend the reach of my company's EC program?
- Is there a more efficient way to establish new trading partners and applications on EDI?
- How do I gain control over my EC program's on-going, internal and external costs?
- When should I migrate my EC program to the Internet/intranet technology platform, which I'm told is an enduring platform that has a quick payback after deployment?
- And finally, how can I protect my current investment in EDI translation software, application integration,and system monitoring?
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
ECXpert uses leading edge technology and know-how to raise the standard for messaging and application software products. Actra has designed ECXpert to address the following needs in today's business world:
- Support of traditional EDI between trading partners who use public EDI standards over private value-added networks (VANs)
- The processing of a broad set of data types
- Direct, conversational exchanges between applications, such as Web storefront and a supplier's inventory system
ECXPERT COMMUNICATIONS
- Provides secure and reliable communication through Actra's open, standards-compliant support for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) according to IETF EDI Working Group Specifications, EDIINT.
- Supports interoperability as part of the CommerceNet EDI Task Force Pilot
- Offers support for an open, industrial-strength, point-to-point HTTP electronic commerce transfer protocol optionally over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Provides legacy connections to EDI Value-added Networks.
- Offers File Transfer Protocol (FTP), asynchronous, 3780 BSC (planned), and SNA (planned) support
- Supports the Message Disposition Notification for Signed Receipt and Non-repudiation of Receipt Notice
SECURITY
- Employs X.509 self-issue certificates or VeriSign Digital ID certificates, Encryption, data integrity, authentication, and digital signatures.
- Uses RSA Technology's S/MIME standards and Netscape's SSL for encryption, data integrity, and authentication
SCALABILITY
- All processes are multi-threaded and designed to scale across platforms.
- Designed to operate in environments ranging from an NT workstation to a multiprocessor UNIX platform
DATA TRANSFORMATION
- Translates data to and from EDI standards as well as "any to any" mapping
- Supports ANSI ASC X12, EDIFACT, UCS, and many other public standards, and as well as user-defined proprietary standards
- Allows businesses to pre-load executable map programs into memory for high-performance processing
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
- Includes a document storage facility or "mailboxing," which allows message data to be retrieved from the ECXpert environment on demand by other applications, or stored until a scheduled time for later processing
- Provides tracking services that reconcile and generate acknowledgments, track a unit of work through its complete life cycle, and provide reporting and event notifications
- Offers archiving interfaces and audit file functions
- Supports Oracle7 Server relational database
SERVICES MANAGEMENT
- Manages the execution of various tasks that are performed on a unit of work, such as validation and registration to the system, translation, communications, mailboxing, and archiving
- Allows you to add new services such as execution and control of a non-ECXpert process, for example, your existing EDI translator
JAVA USER INTERFACE
- In keeping with today's "universal client" orientation, provides a Java user interface for management and administrative functions stet
- Implements an innovative design for performing such traditional, time-consuming tasks as troubleshooting for missing documents or adding trading partnerships stet
PUBLISHED, OPEN APIS AND UTILITIES
- Provides published APIs that increase ECXpert's flexibility
- Using these APIs, ECXpert can send and receive data using a proprietary, internal, corporate file transfer protocol, or a user can easily continue to use an existing, installed EDI translator instead of replacing it.
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
- Sun SPARC™, Solaris Version 2.5.1, 256MB RAM
- Intel Pentium, NT 4.0 Workstation/NT 4.0 Servers, 256MB RAM
SOFTWARE INCLUDED WITH ECXPERT
- Netscape FastTrack Server™
- Netscape Navigator™ Gold
- Netscape Messenger Server™
- Seagate's Crystal Reports™
- Oracle7 Workgroup Server™ Release 7.3.3.3 (optional if customer already has applicable Oracle license)
- TSI Mercator™ Authoring System
HOW TO REACH US
Web: http://www.actracorp.com
Email: info@actracorp.com
Phone: (888) 706-2600 or (408) 542-3183
Mail: 601 Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA