You are looking for What is SAP RFC? SAP is a common ERP platform. It is very large and complex and has very many uses to an enterprise business. An RFC stands for Remote Function Call and is the primary way that SAP communicates with external systems. RFCs can also be created between two SAP systems....
You are looking for What is HTTP? HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and it is the foundation of communication for the world wide web. Companies can leverage HTTP protocol connections to communicate with their business partners, beyond just accessing a website. For B2B integration purposes, HTTP servers and clients are a means to send...
You are looking for Email with B2B Integration Email is used very commonly in many business communication scenarios. The problem with email exchange however, is that the process of documents is usually very many. You may have customers that are emailing you documents of invoice or orders, yet that requires you to manually input that...
You are looking for What is a X.400? X.400 is a standard definition of data communication for messages used for email. During its creation, its designer thought it would become the global standard for email. However, it was overtaken by the SMTP standard for email communication. Even though it is not the primary form of...
You are looking for What is EDIFACT? EDIFACT stands for Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport. It is a widely accepted international EDI standard used by many organisations. EDIFACT defines the syntax to structure data for over 200 business documents (like invoices, orders, despatch notes, etc. ) such that they can be exchanged...
You are looking for What is X12? ASC X12 , also called ANSI ASC X12, is a standard definition for EDI document exchanges. Most commonly used in the US, it has grown to over 300 defined transaction sets for business communication in industries such as healthcare, transportation, government, finance and more. Most companies will have...
You are looking for What is UBL? UBL stands for Universal Business Language. It is a royalty-free library of standard XML business documents. It supports the digitizing of commercial and logistical processes for domestic and international supply chains such as orders and invoices. It can be thought of as a language that allows business applications...
You are looking for What is Tradacoms? It is an early standard for EDI, designed for domestic trade and primarily used in the UK retail sector. The Tradacoms standard encompasses 25 messages and each message is set out in a hierarchical structure. Unlike EDIFACT, Tradacoms does not use a single message format, but instead uses...
You are looking for What is XML? XML stands for Extensible Markup Language and is used for many data integration purposes. The basics of XML are built from lines of code that contain a tag and data. A tag is something that identifies what the data is, like a label. <invoiceNumber> for example would be...
