What BIT Does

Business Integration Technology (BIT) can help you address your business process challenges by creating a complete integration solution.: Do you need to connect to your Customers?; Speed up the pay cycle by sending electronic invoices.; Reduce errors in order processing by receiving electronic purchase orders.; Do you need to connect to your Suppliers?; Reduce errors in order processing by sending electronic purchase orders.; Get order status in real-time without having to make phone calls.; Do you need to connect to your Service Providers?; Streamline your transportation process by sending electronic bills of lading to your logistics companies or carriers.; Process EFT transactions with your bank or other financial institution.; Do you need a Managed File Transfer (MFT) capability?; Achieve a higher level of security and control than plain FTP.; Obtain global visibility of your messaging data, in addition to monitoring and enhanced reporting, non-repudiation, auditability, and performance metrics.

BIT is focused on the business value of integration

With deep roots in transportation, supply chain and logistics, BIT brings innovative value to shippers, carriers, 3PLs, and any firm looking to improve cycle time and reduce cost.
BIT’s customers extend their business processes - like order-to-cash and procure-to-pay - to their suppliers, customers and service providers (their "trading partners") through direct electronic collaboration or B2B integration.
These collaborative business processes provide business value by ensuring that both sides have information that is accurate, complete and timely - no errors, no re-work, no lost opportunities.

Direct electronic integration enables you and your trading partners to:

Exchange information securely and reliably.
Process the information that is exchanged to make the content and format match technology and business processes.
Integrate the information into enterprise applications.

BIT creates solutions based on our Enterprise Messaging Engine (EME).

Security - Protocol Proxy protects your enterprise network while EME protects the content of information sent to and received from trading partners.
Exchange - BIT provides two tools to facilitate the exchange of information:

Protocol Proxy provides a secure Internet "point-of-presence" or "hub" that trading partners can send messages to and receive messages from.
EME connects Protocol Proxy to enterprise systems and also sends and receives information directly to and from trading partners that have their own hubs.

Process - BIT’s EME enterprise message engine processes information to adapt for format and content:

EME encrypts and decrypts messages.
EME transforms message formats - X12 EDI, XML, CSV, and flat files into and from enterprise message formats that match enterprise needs.
EME notifies trading partners when messages have been processed or if an error occurs.

Integrate - EME integrates the documents exchanged with trading partners to enterprise applications:

EME connects trading partner messages to enterprise systems so the business process can be completed.
EME also integrates internal applications so that there is a uniform single view of information across the enterprise.

Reliability and Scalability - EME and Protocol Proxy can operate as multiple loosely coupled redundant systems or can be clustered and load balanced at each tier.