ERP Extension

Can you relate to these issues?

• You’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on your ERP system
• You need to exchange data from your application to internal and external systems
• You’ve implemented a services oriented architecture but struggle to streamline processes with external partners
• Demanding everyone send purchase orders in your data format is no longer practical
• Your community of customers and partners leverage a myriad of disparate applications, formats and protocols
• It’s no longer cost effective to manually send invoices, PO’s and other related documents

Application Integration is the First Step

Most organizations have focused on internal or behind the firewall application integration solutions and have achieved reasonable success in connecting their various business applications to one another. Certainly this is the appropriate place to start in enabling a cohesive business infrastructure. However, many companies then want to extend those business applications to key external communities outside the firewall, like trading partners or customers, in order to exchange procurement information or other critical data. Or, companies are faced with needing to synchronize data across new divisions resulting from a merger or acquisition.

Businesses often find the external integration challenge too daunting to pursue. With a lack of clear integration standards and a lack of control over the technology direction of external entities, enabling and maintaining connectivity is too burdensome for most organizations to undertake by themselves. Due to these challenges, many organizations fail to realize the potential value business-to-business integration delivers.

Extend Your ERP Beyond the Firewall with Ease

It is possible to leverage your existing investment in critical applications without having to manage every connection and data transformation yourself.  Hubspan takes messages and documents from your ERP system and manages the connection, transformation, business rules and mediation for you. Through a single point of integration with the Hubspan service, you can communicate with your customers and partners regardless of the processes, technology and protocols they use to do business electronically.  For example, Hubspan supports all procurement processes, including PunchOut, Round Trip and Tap Out systems and all technologies such as Ariba, Commerce One, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, to name only a few. 

Building each connection with an on-premise solution is no longer necessary. Hubspan moves integration to the cloud with a highly flexible, scalable platform matched with service professionals who are experts in ERP integration, business processes, B2B integration and community management.

Hubspan solutions extend your ERP systems to vast integration communities

Mediating Between ERP Standards and Formats

Hubspan mediates transactions between ERP systems, for both critical processes, such as punchout, and for documents or data. In doing so, we are able to adhere to formats specific to each ERP application, such as SAP and Oracle.  Each ERP system has specific formats and standards they understand and utilize, and we enable each side to communicate in the standards and formats native to that system.  The features that enable this strong integration support for all ERP systems is our translation, choreography, mapping and business rules, as well as our client services professionals, who draw from strong experience working with multiple ERP systems across specific industries and business processes.