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  • B2B trading hubs
  • Logistics service providers
  • Distribution service providers
  • Outsourcing organisations
  • PGG Wrightson streamlines internal business processes
  • OfficeMax integrates with its largest customer

Fusion: service-orientated architecture for open, real time communication.

Highly scalable and incredibly robust, Fusion is testament to our heavy investment in research and development to support technology standards, the application framework and our business solutions. It’s this commitment that leads us to participate in – and adopt – many of the core standards linked with the requirements of supporting business solutions…

Operating systems

  • Microsoft Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/2003
  • Linux (Redhat, Suse and others)
  • Mac OS X
  • Other platforms that run the Sun JDK 1.4 and above

Java virtual machines

  • Sun JDK 1.5
  • Sun JDK 1.6

Messaging systems

  • IBM MQ Series
  • Sonic MQ
  • Any JMS compliant

Web standards

  • SOAP
  • HTTP/S
  • SMTP, IMAP, MIME, POP3
  • XML schema
  • XSLT

J2EE compliance

  • JDBC
  • JNDI
  • JMS
  • JAAS
  • JSP
  • Servlet
  • Connector architecture
  • JavaMail

Data formats

  • Fixed format text files
  • Delimited text files (CSV)
  • Hierarchical text files
  • XML
  • XML DTD and Schemas
  • JDBC/ODBC databases
  • EDI (ANSI/EDIFACT in standard formats and XML versions)
  • Telnet terminal sessions
  • Spreadsheet (Excel formats)
  • COM objects 

Transports

  • Local file system (read and write)
  • FTP (send/ receive, active/passive modes)
  • HTTP (get and post)
  • HTTPS (get and post)
  • JMS message queuing
  • SMTP (send)
  • POP3 (receive)
  • SOAP (client and server over HTTP/S)
  • Web services

Trading partner registry

  • Registration web application
  • Trading partner approval workflow
  • Maintenance web application
  • In process registry lookup (authorisation, document and transport requirements)

 Security

  • Registry security framework
  • User login and authorisation
  • Transport authentication
  • Document encryption
  • Data encryption