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trading electronically
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all
your business partners
XML Highway
the Low Cost, A2A Global Business
Document & Data Exchange Service
Regional Offices
SCOTLAND NORTH
Douglas House The Barns
Avondale Campus Stretton Road
Pochard Way Stretton
Strathclyde Business Park Warrington
Bellshill, ML4 3HB Cheshire, WA4 4NP
Telephone: 01698 842425 Telephone: 01925 732300
Fax: 01698 845166 Fax: 01925 730828
NORTH SOUTH MIDLANDS
Beauchief Hall Sunrise Parkway
Beauchief Linford Wood
Sheffield, S8 7BA Milton Keynes, MK14 6LJ Telephone: 0114 262 1621 Telephone: 01908 665522 Fax: 0114 262 1126 Fax: 01908 249798 SOUTH Maypole House Maypole Road East Grinstead West Sussex, RH19 1HU Telephone: 01342 313141
Fax: 01342 313181
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Via Systems Inc. Via Systems Inc.
660 Southpointe Court, Suite 300 383, 7th Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80906, U.S.A. Suite 1R, Brooklyn
Telephone: (719) 579 6800 New York 11215 U.S.A. Fax: (719) 576 7246 Telephone: (718) 788 6230
www.via.com Fax: (718) 768 4661
GROUP HEADQUARTERS Beauchief Hall, Beauchief, Sheffield S8 7BA Telephone: 0114 262 1621 Fax: 0114 262 1126
www.edp.co.uk
Sales enquiries: 01908 249797
www.xmlhighway.com
In meeting today’s trading partner demands, whether
they be customer or supplier, secure global electronic
business document exchange between organisations
of whatever size
through seamless system integration,
A2A, is now the
‘
must-have
’
demand.
Under increasing pressure to reduce costs by trading electronically with allpartners, businesses are being challenged to leverage existing IT systems without disruption, making core business processes available to customers and suppliers over the Internet. When business documents are exchanged electronically the resulting cost savings often translate into more favourable buying terms.
Quantum VS XML Highway is a secure managed service providing seamless back-office integration enabling organisations of all sizes to electronically exchange and archive business documents cost effectively.
Deal with an unlimited number of trading partners,
processing an unlimited number of business documents for a low annual fee.
Quantum VS XML Highway Benefits
● Secure electronic document & data exchange
with all trading partners of all sizes.
● Drives down document production & partner
processing costs, optimising business document exchange processes.
● Reduce operating costs eliminating
expensive manual data entry, stationery and postage.
● Greater business agility, quickly integrating
new partners.
● Easy systems integration following mergers or
acquisitions.
● Implementation of the XML International
Standard.
● Six + years document archiving meeting
statutory requirements.
electronically
with
all
your business partners
trading
Welcome to the Quantum VS XML Highway
In today’s challenging economic environment, those businesses that are the leanest, fittest, fastest, most well-connected and customer focused, are winners.
Organisations have invested in best-of-breed application software solutions, enjoy key business partnerships and employ talented people. The need is to harness these disparate resources to produce optimum business processes through which value added and improved customer service are created.
Integrating IT solutions improves business process efficiency, reduces operating costs and speeds business responsiveness.
Quantum VS, the XML Highway is designed to eliminate technology and communication barriers, Application-to-Application (A2A).
Refining electronic business document and data exchange processes improves business agility and strengthens trading partner relationships.
Freeing information from the shackles of proprietary EDI data format messages and the Value Added Network (VAN) provider, the XML Highway enables secure global document exchange in an open environment, Application-to-Application (A2A), delivering a fast, low cost capability to allbusinesses of anysize.
Worldwide agreement on the underlying XML Standard creates huge opportunities for all enterprises to simplify and integrate existing IT environments without disruption to existing business systems. The focus is on leveraging further automation, inside and outside, to extract maximum cost savings from existing IT investment.
The commercial availability of the Internet links the
global market place speeding all business processes.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is the International
Standard enabling technology for business document
and data exchange.
Key Drivers for XML Highway
● Adopted by Governments worldwide. ● Uses the Internet as the low cost, fast and
universally available transportation layer.
● Guarantees security and accuracy of document
data content.
● Simplifies the exchange and transformation of
electronic documents across boundaries.
technology
shockwave
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“XML has proven to be an incredible, effective
and easy way to get data back and forth between
trading partners over the Internet”.
James Utzschneider
Director of business frameworks, Microsoft
exchange
business documents
with
all
your business partners
The Quantum VS XML Highway managed service enables businesses to securely exchange documents including Orders, Order Acknowledgements, Invoices, Price Updates, Product Information, etc. The UK Government has adopted XML as its standard for document and data exchange. “Key policies of the e-GIF (e-Government Interoperability Framework) are the adoption of Internet and Web standards, with the emphasis on the use of XML for data integration and developing and providing XML Schemas for Government processes. Furthermore, XML is the standard for Governments worldwide” Source: UK Online Annual Report 2002
Employing the XML international technology standard to facilitate secure transmission, validation, transformation and delivery of business documents - including EDI
messages, Quantum VS XML Highway is transforming the way in which organisations operate their business processes, reducing operating costs and making it easy to connect with any trading partner, A2A, worldwide.
Trading partners using EDI technology for document exchange protect their existing investment but eliminate volume related VAN costs.
Revolutionising the mechanism through which
disparate applications ‘talk’
to each other,
Quantum VS XML Highway provides a secure
managed service, enabling global electronic
document exchange between trading partners of
all
sizes, including Government organisations.
● Reduce Operating Costs
Eliminate expensive manual data entry, stationery and postage costs, realising the Quantum VS XML Highway implementation ROI in a matter of weeks.
● Agile Trading Relationships
Set-up an unlimited number of trading relationships & exchange an unlimited volume of business documents.
● Transformation of Business Document Data
Securely send and receive business documents, transforming the data content into any message format and file format, suitable for you and your trading partner.
● Simplicity of Operation
Leverage existing IT investment without any disruption to existing business systems.
● Archiving & Retrieval
Archive all electronic documents for six + years, meeting statutory requirements, and render any archived document.
● Technology Transparency
Exchange business documents electronically with alltrading partners, irrespective of the technology they use.
● If the business document can be printed then it can be
electronically transmitted!
Quantum VS XML Highway - Key Service Benefits
Invoices Sales Or der s Pur chase Or der s Order Ac kno wledg ements Product Inf ormation Price Updates Proofs of Deliver y Large/Medium/Small Organisations UK Government Distributors Warehouses Customers Manufacturers Delivery Service Back-office system
profit
from the
of
QUANTUMVSTM
XML Highway
environment
“51% of UK businesses are now
online buying electronically”.
UK Online Annual Report 2002
Dynamically administer your electronic trading relationships, including your EDI-INT traffic, through the easy-to-use browser based
Administration Client interface.
The Quantum VS XML Highway solution delivers the performance, scalability, reliability and security necessary to manage your global electronic trading community.
Join the fast growing XML electronic
document exchange community, simply and
without disruption to existing business
systems and make immediate cost savings.
Manage the growth in your electronic
trading community bringing in
all
your
business partners, easily.
Open Environment Benefits
● Rapid deployment & rollout. ● Secure communications. ● Easy administration.
● Supports heterogenous configurations with
multiple operating systems.
● Document tracking controls. ● Automated reports & audit trails. ● Fast ROI.
● 24 x 7 operation.
● Meets statutory requirements.
connecting
to the
open
integration
“Research has identified that 95% of information
keyed into a computer system is generated by
another computer system”.
BASDA 5th May, 2001
The Quantum VS XML Highway Integration Client provides an easy-to-use WindowsTM
toolset automating your business document transmission and receipt securely and seamlessly with your back-office system.
As a Quantum VS XML Highway community user, the Quantum Integration Client software is a free distributable for allyour trading partners, eliminating trading partner resistance.
Leverage your existing IT investment by
integrating your back-office system with the
Quantum VS XML Highway business document
exchange engine, simply and without
disruption, for a fast ROI.
Integration Benefits
● AS2 security and reliability. ● Complete document auditability. ● Autorun features.
● Six + years document archiving. ● Find and render any document. ● Powerful database reporting. ● Preserve EDI investment.
● Eliminate volume related VAN costs. ● Bring allyour trading partners into your
electronic document exchange coommunity -easily.
seamless
back-office