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Q

UANTUM

VS

N e x t G e n e r a t i o n S o f t w a r e

profit from

trading electronically

with

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

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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.

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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

the

XML

“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

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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

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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

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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

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