This is the first of a series of posts on enhancements BIT has made to EME, our enterprise messaging engine, for the upcoming release of EME 3.0. This post discusses the features and functionality we have added to the component of EME that manages the actual business documents that are sent and received between an enterprise and their suppliers, customers, and service providers.

Business Integration Technology’s customers believe an enterprise messaging engine needs to do more than transmit and transform messages. It needs to extend business processes to suppliers, customers, and service providers. And it needs to make those business processes accessible to real business users - with the tools they need to ensure they get the real business benefits of B2B integration.

For EME 4.0, BDP stores and displays business documents as before. But now, users can utilize user-friendly filters to retreive just the documents they want. They can view the document as a business document - suitable for use by business users - as well as print it, forward it and save it to a file. An "action icon" lets a user see details about sender, receiver, transaction type, message transmission and acknowledgment. Using BIT's "Business Process Intelligence," another action icon lets the user see all the related business documents in the business process. And since B2B integration involves the real-world challenges of trading partner systems unavailability, action icons let BDP users retry message transmission or even cancel an entire business process.

Click on the image for screenshots and more details on BDP for EME 4.0: