The ePortal EDI Integration Solution from eBRIDGE

The eBridge ePortal is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that enables for the remote exchange and viewing of EDI business documents with a webfriendly interface.

Available at a low monthly subscription fee per trading partner, ePortal provides you with the ability to view inbound and outbound EDI documents from any remote station that accesses the internet. Documents are displayed in a user-friendly format for quick and easy viewing. And with print capability in ePortal, these documents can be printed in either the userfriendly or raw format.

ePortal provides web-friendly interface forms to enter data for the EDI documents, which are then sent to your trading partner in the required EDI format. With an ePortal account, setting up a trading partner to exchange documents with involves only making an online purchase of the Trading Partner Kit on the eBridge web site. Once subscribed, all trading partner maps residing on the remote ePortal platform are associated with your company to allow for the immediate exchange, viewing and printing of documents.

Any upgrades to a new EDI version by the trading partner will be automatically reflected in the maps on ePortal, which is covered as part of the Trading Partner Kit subscription fee.

Benefits
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for document exchange and tracking
• Low monthly subscription fee per trading partner
• Handles translator, mapping, and communication functions
• View and print documents in user-friendly or raw formats
• Web forms for data entry and "on-the-fly" corrections/modifications
• Reprocessing capability
• Buy "off-the-shelf" trading partner kits for quick setup
• Upgrades to new EDI versions automatically reflected in maps
• Large volume document storage
• Storage and viewing of non-compliant business documents
• E-mail notification of received documents
• E-mail notification of unacknowledged outbound documents

Translator functions and communication responsibilities through the established and secure
channel with the Trading Partner are also assumed by ePortal, thereby negating the need to install and maintain on-premise communication and translator software. E-mail notifications are sent upon acceptance of documents or when an outbound document has not been acknowledged within a specified time.

ePortal stores inbound and outbound documents that have not passed EDI compliancy checking. The noncompliant error(s) for these documents can be viewed to enable the document to be corrected "on-the-fly" using web forms, and then reprocessed.

Archiving of documents is also offered with ePortal, providing less clutter on the screen and allowing for easier navigation.

ePortal utilizes the powerful Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 R2 to orchestrate and optimize the document exchange process. With its capacity to process and store large volumes of document transactions, BizTalk Server offers enterprise features to smaller organizations and is the ideal platform for B2B document exchange.