Business Integration Communities

It’s no longer enough to communicate and share information with the guy down the hall. You need to collaborate with people and businesses across many geographies and industries. Those companies make up your business community. But is your community working well together? While you may not need to sit around a camp fire together singing Kumbaya, you do need to be sharing information and optimizing your mutual operations for the success of your businesses.

Cloud-based B2B integration helps you build business community networks that share information in real time, increase time to market for new goods and collaborate quickly and seamlessly.

You need to build business integration communities if you:

• Share information with business partners or customers
• Have a B2B eCommerce operation or online catalog
• Sell goods or services via a marketplace or supplier network
• Have partners, customers or divisions with different applications and standards than yours
• Rely on external partners to build, market or sell your products or services
• Have outsourced strategic operations
• Want to improve and automate business processes
• Need a more streamlined and cost-effective EDI process

Beyond Traditional Integration to Community Collaboration

If you are still using a point-to-point B2B gateway or EDI VAN, you should consider moving to a more agile and scalable integration approach. With cloud-based integration solutions, you remove the need for hardware, software and complex management, while gaining easy on-boarding, connectivity and interoperability.

With B2B integration in the cloud, you can build business community networks across:

• Customer communities
• Supplier communities
• Industry communities