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3 Ways Partnet ePort™ Can Enhance Your Business Partner Network

1. Fast, Flexible System Integration

ePortePort is a powerful Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) tool providing real-time connectivity to enterprise systems throughout a business-partner network. ePort is a highly flexible and lightweight application based on the industry-standard XML platform, allowing it to efficiently interface with distributed systems on multiple levels, including ERPs, databases, and file-level interfaces. ePort supports HTTP and HTTPS, making it compatible with most highly-restricted agency firewalls.

ePort currently helps integrate and support the DOD EMALL — a distributed, Government eCommerce system containing over 50 million DOD-managed and commercial items.

Inexpensive and available without recurring licensing fees, ePort provides smart, scalable solutions that help enterprises create and manage connections throughout their globalized-product and service-delivery networks.

2. Secure, Reliable Messaging

ePort employs an open-messaging protocol that ensures safe, secure channels for information transfer, including EDI and cXML document formats. ePort is easily configured to support multiple communications protocols, including:

  • ebXML
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • SMTP
  • FTP/SFTP
  • AS2/AS3

ePort ensures data security and authenticity using FIPS-approved cryptographic algorithms; as well as providing capabilities for digitally-signed acknowledgment and non-repudiation of messages.

ePort also enables one-time translation of document formats. ePort converts all proprietary documents into a canonical XML format — eliminating multiple translations of documents distributed across the business-partner network.

3. Streamlined Supply Chain Inventory Management

ePort's lightweight and flexible integration framework help enterprises tighten their supply chains and eliminate data latency. Unlike most EAIs, ePort enables real-time connectivity throughout a business-partner network — ensuring optimal system visibility and supply chain inventory management.

By creating direct business-partner connections to supplier inventories, ePort helps government and commercial enterprises minimize ordering mistakes, streamline requisitioning, reduce delivery-lead times, and lower costs.