Business Process Focus

Hubspan Extends Business Processes Across the B2B Cloud

All industries are faced with an increased need for end-to-end business processes with real-time exchanges, spanning multiple companies with disparate systems, inconsistent standards and legacy applications. Unlike traditional integration solutions, Hubspan focuses on the business process, going beyond point-to-point integration to extend business processes across the B2B cloud to your customer and partner communities. In doing so, Hubspan handles complex choreography and workflows, while defining and adhering to sophisticated business rules and policies. Hubspan enables enterprises to transact business smoothly and effectively up and down the value chain, and, in the process, differentiate themselves from their competitors.

Hubspan Connects Communities and Automates Business Processes

Hubspan provides a vast range of solutions to meet your needs across all of your business processes, partnerships and integration challenges – from managed file transfer to complex mediation of security policies to sophisticated eCommerce operations.  Hubspan brings a consistent, proven approach to creating the process flow and ensuring all members of the integration community achieve seamless connectivity, communications and collaboration.  No matter what your B2B integration challenge, you can be assured there is a Hubspan solution designed to fit your needs and budget.

Advanced Transformation and Professional Services

Hubspan moves beyond simple file exchange and data translation by providing customers with a full suite of advanced transaction processing services and professional services that operate at the business process level, including:

• Complex Choreography:  Complex transaction choreography allows an organization to define multifaceted business processes involving multiple data exchanges with one or many external companies or systems.  An example of this would be a Purchase Order that requires specific information within it to be passed to a third party, such as a logistics company, as the PO flows between buyer and seller.
• Multiple Data Transformation: Some of the greatest integration and processing challenges to enterprises revolve around the need to process many incoming data objects together, and resulting in many outputs. This challenge has resulted in companies building integration infrastructures that are nearly as costly as the systems which they integrate. Hubspan and the WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) technologies in the WebSpan solutions are able to process natively many data inputs together, with a “single read of the data,” and to provide these combined input processes to many outputs in a single process.
• Data Persistence and Correlation: The Hubspan solution is able to persist data within the system for later use. This may be data on a particular transaction or metrics associated with a particular set of transactions. Data can then be made available to downstream transactions, a process known as correlation, which allows an organization to create higher level business processes based on different transaction flows.
• Business Rules: Business rules are a means of implementing and enforcing business policy through the externalization of the business. With Hubspan, the business rules govern the logic, policies and actions behind the flow of data/information based on requirements and the business rules that underlie the integration transaction. Hubspan’s ability to create, define and follow basic to complex business rules is one of its differentiations in the integration market. Business rules can govern what data is tracked throughout multiple transactions.
• Event management: Event management provides the ability to create business workflows based on events other than the receipt or sending of a transaction. An example of event management is a supply chain manager wishing to be notified of abnormalities in a material replenishment process. Such abnormalities may include the absence of important transactions, or the presence of unusually low transaction flow.
• Security: Customers are ensured of the highest level of security throughout the transaction across the varying messaging models and data formats, including encryption of data, authentication utilizing digital certificates or other means, authorization rules, non-repudiation to prove identity of sender, and masking of censored information. This also includes security mediation across differing security policies or practices.