Overcome multiple silos of information, disparate systems, fragmented business processes, and information exchange barriers to collaborate and compete effectively.

Many manufacturers have already made significant investments to streamline internal processes and squeeze costs from operations. To realize further improvements and be ready for new competitive realities they need to invest in solutions that help them collaborate with their customers and trading partners, seamlessly share information, and automate critical processes.

glovia.com Collaboration & Integration is a comprehensive set of applications and infrastructure technology that integrates systems and provides an open platform for true e-business and collaboration. The solution facilitates the rapid transfer of large amounts of data between glovia.com and other applications, synchronizes glovia.com with your other IT systems, and supports e-business initiatives.

glovia.com Collaboration & Integration Business Benefits include:

• Increases the agility and responsiveness of your entire business
• Reduces transaction costs
• Improves information flow
• Provides total information visibility
• Enables business process automation
• Links customers, suppliers and trading partners
• Decreases business cycle-times

Collaborative Business Integration Platform
glovia.com's proven collaborative business integration platform helps you support your most advanced e-business and collaboration strategies as it enables manufacturers to increase supply chain visibility and transparency, decrease response times, and automate key business processes.

Glovia's collaboration and integration platform, based on an open XML platform, allows manufacturers to exchange information easily across disparate systems, whether internal or external. The solution includes inbound and outbound XML transactions sets, XML data synchronization capabilities and, based on Fujitsu's proven Interstage products, functionality for trading partner management, workflow and transaction automation. The solution also supports the latest technology and industry standards, including J2EE, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML, CORBA and RosettaNet.

The following products are part of the glovia.com Collaboration & Integration solution:

XML Framework
XML has grown to become an open platform for manufacturers to share information internally and with their business partners. XML has become the key to extended ERP, providing manufacturers with the tools they need to integrate various internal applications — ERP, supply chain and more — as well as extend their reach beyond the "four walls" of the factory to automate information flows and streamline business processes between their customers and suppliers.

glovia.com XML Framework provides manufacturers with a way to send and receive XML documents and allows the seamless sharing of critical information internally as well as with business partners. XML Framework, in conjunction with middleware, creates collaborative business processes and provides open, standards-based connectivity between glovia.com and other systems. glovia.com XML Framework delivers lasting benefits by enabling manufacturers to:

• Increase supply chain visibility
• Improve responsiveness and agility
• Reduce costs by eliminating inefficient manual processes
• Increase customer service levels
• Improve information availability and accuracy
• Compress process cycle-times and reduce information latency
• Increase efficiency and productivity by optimizing business process and streamlining workflows
• Improve communication and relationships with trading partners and customers
• Automate critical business processes and information flows
• Decrease excess inventory levels

glovia.com XML Framework provides:

• An interface to any application that understands XML
• Event-driven capabilities
• Real-time and asynchronous communications
• Bi-directional transaction and information flows
• Support of File System and HTTP transports

glovia.com XML Framework comes with an ever-increasing number of XML documents to support the exchange of information between glovia.com and external systems. XML Framework supports three sets of standard data transactions, including Demand (customer facing), Supply (vendor facing) and Synchronization. For more information, please go see http://www.glovia.com/pdf/datasheets/XML_Transaction_0903.pdf.

The Interstage Suite
Fujitsu's Interstage suite is a broad family of modular, flexible, real-time software products that allows enterprises and their partners to design, develop, deploy and manage scalable, customized mission-critical applications securely and reliably. More than 8,000 companies in over 83,000 installations use the application suite worldwide.

The Interstage suite provides one of the broadest ranges of application infrastructure software products. These products are used to build applications that simplify and accelerate business processes, maximize revenue, lower operating costs, improve customer service and time to market and help businesses react quickly to changing market requirements.

Unlike large, complex, integrated platforms, Interstage allows an enterprise to pick and choose the specific modules, or combinations of modules, that can have the most immediate impact at the lowest cost. Customers can realize a measurable return on investment that is often in weeks, not months or years.

Electronic Data Interchange
The standardization of message-handling protocols, in combination with the abundance of secure, reliable, and low cost network solutions, has spurred a huge demand for electronic commerce in supply chain management.

glovia.com's EDI application provides a flexible, state-of-the-art solution designed to strengthen your position as a world-class manufacturer.

• Simple Implementation
  glovia.com's EDI solution can be easily implemented whether you already have a preferred Value-Added Network (VAN) or an internal Wide Area Network (WAN).
  
  
• Maximum Independence
  By separating the data transportation layer from the EDI messaging facility, glovia.com's EDI solution provides complete independence in the selection and implementation of an EDI protocol as well as in the selection of message sets that fall within the protocol.
  
  
• Built-In Flexibility
  Built-in flexibility linked with the very latest advances in communication technology ensures your ability to take advantage of new developments in electronic communications as they become available.
  
  
• Sophisticated EDI Message Handling
  glovia.com's sophisticated EDI message handling capabilities provide options for automated or manual processing-and incorporate advanced methods for change control management. Data mapping and cross protocol message conversion are easily accomplished through a series of elegant EDI message handling solutions.
  
  
• Global EDI
  glovia.com EDI has been specifically designed to work with EDI standards from around the world including EDIFACT, ANSI X12, CII, and EEI, among others.

Application Adapters
glovia.com Application Adapters are application programming interfaces (APIs) that provide services and functionality that supports your data migration needs. The rapid and accurate importing and refreshing of data files containing key information can be an invaluable time and resource saving tool. glovia.com provides a powerful tool-set of adapters for the transfer of information between itself and other applications or systems.

• Template Based Adapters
  The glovia.com Application Adapters are pre-defined templates that allow you to retrieve data rapidly from other applications or systems. The template design enables the precise mapping of data fields from a source file into an Application Adapter file. The glovia.com adapters take all the key table set-up and data input drudgery out of the process of importing information into, or updating, your database.
  
  The APIs are data modeled after the various glovia.com application products. APIs can be used for complete database migration from one system to another, or for application-to-application data exchanges such as updating your product catalog with a Product Data Management (PDM) tool.
  
  
• Simplified Data Transfer
  With glovia.com, you can use spreadsheet information from your PC application to quickly create or modify budgets, and then integrate the data to a glovia.com application. You can also move files from CAD/CAM systems on other platforms into Engineering to maintain the latest product configurations. The system also serves as an interface for batch data collection systems, and supports the flat-file structures required for Electronic Data Interface (EDI) transactions/sets.
  
  
• Open Systems Flexibility
  Designed with the flexibility to accommodate many different types of data transfers, Application Adapters truly provides an "open systems" architecture for your business applications.