Collaborate with Customers and Partners

Multiple information silos. Disparate systems. Fragmented business processes. Information barriers. To compete, companies must overcome the technology and process hurdles that prevent them from collaborating.

Glovia Collaboration & Integration:

• 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

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

Glovia Collaboration & Integration is a comprehensive set of applications and infrastructure technology that integrates systems and enables your operations for e-business. The solution enables the rapid transfer of large amounts of data between Glovia and other applications, keeping your Glovia system fully synchronized with your others. It also supports e-commerce initiatives with EDI functionality as well as provides a platform for true e-business and collaboration.

Collaborative Business Integration Platform

Glovia now includes a proven collaborative business integration platform to help you support your most advanced e-business and collaboration strategies. The new solution, based on Fujitsu's proven Interstage products, enables manufacturers to increase supply chain visibility and transparency, decrease response times and automate key business processes.

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

Glovia's solution includes the following Interstage applications:

• Interstage Integration Manager – is the conductor for business-critical systems, controlling and consolidating business transactions and data – both inside and outside the organization – via its systems-centric integration capabilities. Providing a server, adapter kit, and a suite of more than 200 adapters, Interstage Integration Server is based on XML and supports Web Services. (previously called Interstage CollaborationRing)
• Interstage Portal – lets enterprises integrate a variety of disparage systems and services, quickly and easily, presenting users, employees, customers, and partners with one streamlined, consistent visual interface. It provides highly personalized, relevant and timely content, collaborative workspaces, and role-based tasks tied directly to business processes. (previously called Interstage Portalworks)
• Interstage Application Server – is the foundation of secure, reliable and effective Internet and Intranet applications. It provides fully compliant J2EE application-hosting capabilities, as well as all the necessary low-level services, fail-over protection, clustering, and other J2EE features for building turnkey applications and packaged solutions.