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Benefits and Features

Key Benefits

  • Exchanges and translates messages in real-time, to and from any format
  • Provides excellent value by facilitating the exchange of information electronically between small, medium and large companies, no matter the individual level of EDI or e-Commerce sophistication
  • Reduces internal programming requirements and costs with an integrated solution that easily and quickly connects you with your trading partner
  • Removes need to purchase separate or expensive software to integrate with trading partners
  • Replaces and renders messages in real time, in any format and Internet protocol
  • Maximizes your existing e-Commerce ROI by electronically enabling your non-EDI suppliers’ and trading partners’ entry into your existing trading community
  • Interconnects with all major Value Added Networks (VAN)
  • Allows you to easily retrieve stored messages

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Key Features

  • Real-time messages in any format (EDI, XML, & Internet protocols)
  • Connects with all major value added networks (VANS) such as Kleinschmidt or Sterling
  • Allows easy retrieval of stored messages
  • Provides a totally integrated solution that eliminates the need to convert your proprietary formats

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Saving Time, Money and Resources

Agilink manages your transactional data:

  • bills of lading
  • purchase orders
  • requisitions
  • invoices
  • location messages
  • shipment information
  • ETA's
  • inventory levels

Agilink helps to alleviate distress within your business, and enables you to focus on the business' core. Its innovative messaging connects you with your trading community by allowing transactional data to be exchanged with any partner in any format or protocol.

It works with your existing systems, with quick, non-invasive implementation, requiring no software to installation or maintenance. It gives you the information you need to make quick management decisions and lets you stay focused on your core business instead of on-going data management and integration issues.

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How Agilink Can Save You Time, Money and Resources

To learn the true cost of using a VAN, you must add the cost of the VAN to the cost of transmission, while also including the cost of translation software and maintenance. Agilink, however, is a complete solution, offering both transmission and transaction functions within our network with minimal cost to your organization. For less than the cost of a VAN and transformation software, Agilink provides you with a complete solution. An in-house solution is also possible, but requires extensive resources and process commitments.

If your business does not utilize electronic messaging at all, you may have a whole staff dedicated to managing phone and fax messages and manually entering the data, which adds time and expense along with an increased probability of error.

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The Flexibility of Agilink

Agilink gives you the ability to link with trading partners, regardless of the message format or message volume of sender to receiver. Messages are accepted in any format and transmitted over any protocol – from flat files, to EDI, to XML. This is particularly beneficial when customers require a change or update to your existing messaging formats in order to maintain a business relationship with them.

Any change you make – from upgrading your computer system, to switching trading partners, to altering the way you want to send or receive information – can easily be managed. Transentric does the work for you by maintaining maps and business rules specific to your needs. This makes you incredibly responsive to your trading community. In real-world terms, it means you won’t be in a crisis mode all the time. Agilink easily adapts to every situation.

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Transmission Formats

  • EDI X12 (any version of the EDI ASC Standard)
  • EDIFACT (any version of the Western European EDI Standards)
  • Flat Files
  • XML (Extensible Markup Language)
  • IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
  • Web site Data Entry

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Transmission Message Protocols

  • AS2 (Drummond Certified)
  • HTTP/HTTPS (Web)
  • Web Forms
  • SNA Networking
  • Frame Relay
  • VAN Interconnects
  • Dial-up (Modem)
  • FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
  • FTPSSH (Secure FTP)
  • VPN (with triple DES)
  • IBM MQIPT Series™
  • SMTP (e-mail)