Strengthen & Standardize Your B2B Communications Security

As an integral interface to your customers and partners, and a strategic foundation for supporting your sources of income, MFT and B2B connections play a vital role in the success of your business. But in many cases, gaining control over file transfer chaos is like herding cats – it’s nearly impossible.

A wide variety of MFT patterns and use cases handled through a combination of point-to-point processes, vanilla FTP sites, hastily-assembled quick fixes and expensive legacy mechanisms, such as leased lines, frame relay connections and modem pools has created virtual anarchy for many companies, especially with the increasing volume of data and number of partners and processes, and continually evolving standards. In addition, emerging interaction patterns, such as human-to-human and human-to-system, are compounding complexity with requirements for new systems, management and governance.

Disjointed connections not only place strain on your infrastructure, your budget and your staff, but also open up security holes that put data at risk and undermine compliance with government and industry regulations. What’s more, because they are hard to manage, they can’t adequately support your business process requirements or give you the visibility you need to track communications and transactions, and quickly deal with issues when they arise.

Now is the time to move from the reactive projects that have fuelled the chaos to a strategic approach. Axway B2B gateways bring order to chaos with the industry’s most comprehensive business MFT solutions. They enable you to create manageable, secure and auditable two-way communications channels over the Internet and private IP networks — with anyone you do business with.

With an Axway B2B gateway providing centralised governance for your entire file transfer infrastructure, you can:

• Automate the flow of information with customers, suppliers, distributors and partners — without the high cost of VANs, additional infrastructure or proprietary software,
• Upgrade and consolidate connections with a multi-tiered, business-class architecture that easily scales to support increasing data volumes, expansion across multiple business units and growing customer and partner communities,
• Ensure that your data is secured in transit, in the DMZ and at rest on the server, regardless of the underlying transport network. All user connections are strongly authenticated, and data integrity and guaranteed delivery are ensured — whether the user makes infrequent transfers via a Web browser or EndPoint client such as Axway Secure Client, or uses client automation for batch and scheduled transfers,
• Align and reinforce your compliance efforts thanks to internal efficiency and automation initiatives that reduce costs,
• Use industry-recognised standards such as ebMS, EDIINT (ASx). For many years, Axway has been the reference standard for Drummond Group’s eBusinessReady™ programme, allowing companies to migrate their partners and customers from expensive EDI VANs and async/bisync, dial-up connections to a low-cost, Internet-based MFT solution with comprehensive security, management and reporting,
• Offer automated file delivery to complement interactive Web portals for partners, customers and employees,
• Reduce transaction turnaround times and significantly reduce error rates,
• Gain comprehensive end-to-end visibility into all process and data flows.

Axway Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions are optimised to enable secure, auditable and easy-to-manage Business-to-Business (B2B), Application-to-Application (A2A), and ad hoc information exchange within your existing infrastructures.

Axway gateways include:

• Interchange, a high-performance B2B gateway, ideal for organisations that need to create and manage sophisticated B2B communities with hundreds of business partners and multiple business units in distributed geographic locations.
• SecureTransport, a secure, multi-protocol, directory-based solution for integrating processes, data and workflows into your global business infrastructure.
• Gateway, with built-in support for industry-specific protocols, including ETEBAC and EBICS.
• Specialised B2Bi gateways for financial services, life sciences and automotive markets.
• Robust DMZ Security gateways that secure data as they flow into your company from the Internet and out of your company through your firewall.

Learn more about Axway MFT solutions:

EndPoints. Manage large communities and make it easy for everyone in your business ecosystem to communicate with you.

Application-to-Application (A2A) MFT. Securely transfer and track files within your organisation between distinct hardware and software platforms, without application rewrites.

Ad hoc MFT. Establish the same levels of security, visibility and traceability for unscheduled file transfers via email as you do for automated B2B and A2A file transfers.