Embedded EDI Communications

making EDI perform at code level is a good thing.

Presented by:Todd Gould, President

Loren Data Corp.

Sector Research by:

Alan Wilensky, Analyst
bizQuirk

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 Overview

Loren Data Corp. is a 23 yr. veteran of connected e-commerce

Operates ECGrid®- Since 2001, a trusted provider of interconnect

management services between VANs, e-commerce hosts, and
major supply chain hubs.

ECGrid® - Provides internetwork management and messaging

reliability service enhancements to 65 VANs and e-commerce
networks.

A Total of 80 major interconnects, and 14,000 unique trading

partners rely on ECGrid for traffic routing services.

The traffic of 600,000 Trading partner QID’s traverse ECGrid®

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Loren Data Corp Introduces:

ECGridOS - the programmer’s API gateway to ECGrid®.

With ECGridOS, any program, SOA / ESB/ SAAS / PAAS, can control every aspect of
EDI communications.

Every Aspect

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 API Now !

✓ ECGridOS EDI API

✓ WSDL / SOAP

✓ Superior Integration

✓ 78 Functions

✓ More robust than FTP / AS2

✓ Ideal for Hosted Platforms

✓ Ready Now

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 Better than FTP, AS2, better code level
integration than VANs

78 API functions to control every aspect of EDI communications

function, creating the potential for new and innovative services.

Manage mailbox and user accounts, trading partners, networks,

interconnects, upload /download messages, tracking with
message manifests, and detailed reports.
Bring full administrative control to the desktop (and back-end) for
configuration, test, and production. Make EDI communications
integral, rather than relying on external systems.

ECGridOS encompasses the benefits of both hubs and VANs, with

routes to over 600,000 partner QID’s, 80 Major commerce
networks, and integrated trading partner lookup via the API.

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 Old Way / New Way
Improve the End User Process with ECGridOS
VAN Limitations:
➡ No Programmable interfaces
➡ Manual Administration via
arcane process (external web
page)
➡ Each VAN Uses Different
Conventions.
➡ Status Reporting Relies on
External Web Page.
➡ No Customization,
Integration, or interoperability.
➡ Limited or No Automation.
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ECGridOS:
➡ Powerful, Programmable, Configurable, and Integrated
➡ Code-Level control of All Administrative Functions
➡ Code Level User Account and Mailbox Administration
➡ Code Level Handling of Errors and Delivery Exceptions
➡ Network Owner Level of Admin Authority
➡ Reduced complexity with one interface
➡ Send, Receive, Track, Report End-to-End
➡Years of Network Ops Experience, delivered as a configurable
and customizable EDI communications tools suite
➡Build EDI into your products - don’t bolt it on!
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 Hot Button VANs
Integration and Very Limited, Uses External
Programability Web Interfaces
Admin Functions (Users, Almost always external web True Integrated Admin
Mailboxes, Trading page or phone support, forms, functions. Role-Based
Partners etc. access.
By Request to Netops, via
Interconnect Management
email, forms, phone,
Tracking Limited to Success
Traffic Management or failure, arcane data
retrieval
Closed Routing, Opaque Rules,
Routing Transparency
no Lookup
Reporting after the fact,
Reports and Stats fixed formats or inflexible
source data
ECGridOS API Notes
Integrates via any IDE Provides a Unified
Logical Program
or Web Services
Interface for
consumer
Customization
Use ECGridOS to define
delivery of admin
functions to your specs
API based Expert Fast response to
System. Rapid interconnect requests
Interconnects.Rich via API, most return
Control and Status Data ‘Completed’ status
End-to-End tracking via ECGrid Live Data.
detailed manifests, Status, Traffic . Use
message status at each for alarms, alerts, and
waypoint Data Feeds
Extensive Directory
Total Control over
service, lookups,and
routes and interconnects
listings.
Rich reporting in any
format, rapid
Entire API Class for
compilation and
Reports, Data, Message
integration of live
Stats, create your own
statistics with capital
line of business systems
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 Embedding EDI Communications Services 
What’s in the WSDL?

WSDL= A Description of API Services. Not for light reading ...it is for Integrated Development
Environments or Integration Platforms to Import functions. API Families:

System Access & User Management

APIs for control of login/logout and other basic system access functionality.

Network/Mailbox Management
APIs to create and maintain Networks and Mailboxes

Trading Partner ID Management

Add, edit, delete and manage Trading Partners assigned to a specific Network/Mailbox.

Interconnect Management
Create and manage Interconnects between IDs throughout the ECGrid Network.

Carbon Copy Management

APIs to manage Carbon Copy interchanges for Trading Partner pairs.

Parcel Management
APIs to send and receive mailbags, interchanges and other payloads over the ECGrid Network.

Reports
Various system reports.

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 Case: Adding A QID to ECGrid &
Establishing an Interconnect to a VAN-based Trading Partner

Host Program Calling and Return Param Example

Session API Function Params Returns

Login() LoginName -Password SessionID string (GUID)

TPAdd() (Self)1 SessionID (GUID) User Defined QID Description ECGridID

TPSearch()2 SessionID (GUID) QID ECGridIDInfo Collection3

InterconnectAdd() SessionID (GUID) ECGridID Source/Dest Reference InterconnectID

Logout() SessionID (GUID)

Notes:

1 - Not required if owner’s QID has been previously mapped to ECGridID

2 - Example assumes QID exists in ECGridID routing table
3 - A TPSearch() that returns a (null) result is handled with a simple routine using NetworkList()(to find VAN
NetworkID)and TPAddVAN()to acquire ECGridID

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 ECGridOS Network Advantages

➡ 23 Years of Network Operations Experience Carefully Distilled into 78 powerful

functions.

➡ Callable by any code asset, IDE, Web Services Consumer, ESB, SOA
➡ Confers the power of a VAN upon your application. Create users, mailboxes,
interconnects.

➡ Loren Data Corp Network Operations is the e-commerce industry’s most

experienced interVAN operation team.

➡ Trusted by Electronic Commerce Service providers to manage and migrate

QID’s, interconnects, and perform certificate maintenance.

ECGridOS is the only API to offer complete control of trading partners, ubiquitous
routing to any QID, single program attachments via SOAP, and more to come for
certificate management and canonical commerce documents.

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 Contact Loren Data Corp for Developer Accounts

Interested in Getting Started? Questions about applications, partnerships, co-ventures,

industry trends and topics:
Get a Developer Account:
Contact Alan W.
developers@ecgrid.com
partners@ld.com
(412) 353-9269
API Docs on Line
Loren Data Corp
ECGridOS.net
Call:
ECGridOS.com Website
(813) 426-3355
(800) 745-6736

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