OpenText Business Network 16
Ensure compliance and accelerate time to revenue with digital, agile business ecosystems of interconnected trading partners, systems and things
OpenText™ Business Network enables the seamless, secure flow of information across an extended business ecosystem of partners, systems and devices. Business Network ensures customer requirements are complied with and suppliers are managed so organizations can focus on delivering on their core business objectives. Comprised of multiple solutions, Business Network simplifies inherent complexities with information exchange and insights to drive efficiencies, speed time to revenue and improve customer satisfaction.
From B2B integration, community management, procure-to-pay, fax, secure messaging and notifications to complete managed services solutions, OpenText offers the broadest portfolio available for digital business ecosystems. With the addition of Covisint to the Business Network portfolio, Release 16 also introduces a complete Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution for cybersecurity, and an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for new digital service delivery.
What’s new in Release 16
Unparalleled opportunity for digital transformation across extended business communities
Business Network offers managed services and software to facilitate efficient, secure and compliant collaboration between people, systems and things to provide the necessary digital foundation for automating and optimizing business processes across the extended ecosystem.
With the acquisition of Covisint, Release 16 introduces a complete IoT platform to manage trusted information sharing and interactions across complex ecosystems of people, systems and devices. Covisint also adds industry leading IAM to manage and secure user-based access to backend information and systems, enabling trading partner collaboration beyond transactions alone. Release 16 also delivers more B2B self-service capabilities for improved user control and flexibility, and auto-provisioning for trading partners that email invoices as PDF attachments, improving speed and data accuracy. A new offering in EP4, OpenText™ RightFax™ Managed Services, augments OpenText’s market-leading enterprise fax technology with implementation services that let customers focus on other IT initiatives and their core business.
Business Network solutions also feature improved user interaction and experience, such as a complete rewrite and interface of OpenText™ Intelligent Web Forms (IWF). These changes make it easier than ever for non-EDI trading partners to collaborate digitally with their customers. Also extending our reach in EP4, Business Network introduces expanded support for regional communications protocols to ensure customers can collaborate seamlessly around the world, adding Zengin to support Japanese financial institutions and Ryutsu BMS to support the Japanese retail industry.
Digital fax as a managed service
Organizations can eliminate the challenges of internally managing their digital fax infrastructure with RightFax Managed Services to enhance agility, increase speed and improve scalability to meet business goals. Leveraging the experts at OpenText to implement, manage and maintain RightFax, this managed services solution provides an extension of IT resources, shielding the organization from complexity and allowing it to reallocate internal resources to focus on what they do best.
Rich supply chain analytics
OpenText Analytics Suite, embedded with OpenText™ Trading Grid™, gives customers the ability to collect, store, combine, analyze and visualize data from sources outside Business Network, providing a more complete 360-degree view of supply chain risk and opportunities. And, it now has expanded support for more industry and regional protocols.
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Analytics for enterprise fax and omni-channel messaging solutions
Apply rich analytics to OpenText™ RightFax™, OpenText™ Fax2Mail™ and OpenText™ Notifications implementations for a comprehensive view of transactions to easily access, analyze and identify system performance, volume statistics and message delivery information.
Trading Grid web services
Trading Grid Shared Message Gateway now includes custom web services for rapid onboarding of web services-based integrations and applications support.
Anywhere, anytime access
Supporting mobile workers on the go, OpenText™ Active Documents Mobile interface provides end-to-end document lifecycle visibility for mission-critical supply chain transactions. The Active Orders Mobile app allows suppliers to receive new order notifications, search, view status and accept or reject orders. Buyers can search and view order status anywhere, anytime.
Advanced service orchestration
Business Network, now featuring integrated OpenText Process Suite, supports advanced workflow and service orchestration to meet today’s complex integration requirements. Business Network process orchestration also enables automated provisioning for trading partners who email invoices as PDF attachments. This simplifies and speeds trading partner setup, while extending the benefits of digital B2B to partners who are not capable of deep integration today. Trading Partner Graph offers a visualization of how trading partners are connected across the supply chain. Organizations can quickly see what type of B2B transactions are being exchanged and which communication protocol is being used to connect with each and every trading partner across their supply chain network.
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Business event notification
A new business event notification service provides realtime alerts of events, or non-events, within your business applications such as ERP, allowing you to quickly identify issues with any mission-critical transactions and improve responsiveness to time-sensitive process requirements.
Trading partner self-service
Continued expansion of self-service capabilities for trading partners that wish to self-provision their connections and integrations to Trading Grid and Active Applications. Innovations provide greater flexibility to buyers and suppliers.
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Business Network portfolio
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OpenText™ Trading Grid™ Messaging Service
Exchange business documents electronically, in both XML and EDI document standards, with any trading partner, anywhere.
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OpenText™ Trading Grid™ Analytics
Gain deep, rich, 360-degree insights into B2B transactions to enable more informed business decisions across the supply chain.
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OpenText™ B2B Managed Services
Leverage technical infrastructure, program management and OpenText expertise to deliver a B2B electronic commerce solution that meets current and future needs.
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OpenText™ SWIFT Service Bureau
Get a secure gateway for business-to-bank document exchange to reduce the time, costs and risk of maintaining SWIFT connectivity.
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Intelligent Web Forms
Enable small- to medium-sized businesses to utilize electronic documents using a web browser.
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OpenText™ Fax2EDI, OpenText™ Email2EDI
Automate order management with any trading partner, regardless of technical capability, with solutions that convert fax and email attachments to EDI.
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Active Applications
A suite of cloud solutions that extend supply chain processes to the organizations’ entire trading partner ecosystem.
- OpenText™ Active Orders—order, invoice, and logistics management
- OpenText™ Active Invoices with Compliance—global e-invoice compliance
- OpenText™ Active Community—trading partner community management
- OpenText™ Active Intelligence—retail deductions management
- OpenText™ Active Catalogue—data synchronization and product information management
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OpenText™ BizManager™
Offers a complete B2B communications gateway for managed file transfer (MFT), messaging, mapping, transformation, tracking and auditing B2B transactions.
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RightFax Fax Server
Send and receive faxes from desktop, email, back-end applications and MFP devices, delivering enhanced security and compliance.
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OpenText™ Fax2Mail™
Allow employees to send and receive faxes as electronic messages directly from their existing email accounts–anytime, anywhere. The cloud-based faxing service eliminates the need for fax servers, fax machines and related infrastructure, reducing fax costs while improving productivity.
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OpenText™ Fax2Mail™ for Healthcare
Leverage an integrated platform to exchange patient information, streamlining patient care while optimizing clinical workflows with a cloud-based fax solution built specifically for US healthcare providers.
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Notification Services
Increase customer loyalty and improve visibility of communications with integrated email, SMS, voice and fax messaging in a single solution with powerful omni-channel messaging capabilities.
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RightFax Managed Services
Offload the complexity of an on-premises RightFax deployment to the experts at OpenText to implement, manage and maintain the organization’s digital fax infrastructure to enhance agility and improve flexibility and scalability of IT resources with a trusted partner.
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OpenText™ Covisint Internet of Things platform
Securely manage access, lifecycle and relationships across extended business ecosystems from people to systems to things.
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OpenText™ Covisint Identity and Access Management solution
Create and manage user accounts, roles and access rights for individual users, systems and things within an organization, and across an extended B2B ecosystem. Information is the currency of the digital economy. Protect and manage it with Covisint IAM.
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ANX Portfolio
Digitize trading partner ecosystems and supply chains for greater efficiency and agility. ANX addresses industry specific B2B requirements to provide organizations with reliable, secure and compliant information exchange that meets their distinct needs.