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Reliable B2B data exchange with IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS

Here in this blog, we will learn about reliable B2B data exchange with IBM sterling B2B integration SaaS.

Sterling B2B Integration SaaS

To succeed today, your supply chain needs to be dynamic, responsive, and interconnected to your ecosystem and processes. Many organizations are:

• Missing opportunities because they can’t transact today with a customer with specific connection requirements.
• Struggling to meet a customer or trading partner mandate to automate(digitize) their connection or meet a new customer or partner connection requirement.
• Overpaying for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) software platforms that don’t have incremental pricing tiers, or platforms that overcharge for establishing an EDI or API connection with only 1 (or a few) key customers, suppliers, distributors or trading partners.
• Have skills or staffing shortages making it difficult to keep any B2B integrations current with:
  • Complexity
  • Security
  • Growing transaction volume
  • Routine maintenance

Industry Business Challenges include:

• B2B Integration complexity (Many EDI formats, Increasing use of B2B APIs
• Skilled and reliable resources availability
• Lack of end-to-end visibility & Lack of operational flexibility
• High costs with legacy systems and solutions, Desire to move to the cloud

Why Sterling B2B Integration SaaS

• B2B SaaS gives you access to more than 3.1 million pre-connected trading partners exchanging billions of EDI and API documents, globally.
• As a leader in API and EDI technologies, IBM is uniquely positioned to help you simplify your B2B connections, reducing supply chain risk.
• B2Bi SaaS’s Premium Edition allows you to rest easy as we do the heavy lifting to establish and maintain real time connections.
• The platform offers a range of integration options to help businesses connect with their existing systems and applications, and a range of security and compliance features to protect data and comply with industry requirements while meeting even the most demanding service level agreement (SLA) requirements

Customer results it creates against that need

• 383% 3-year ROI
• $7.68M Annual benefits per organization
• 55% faster to onboard new customers, suppliers, distributors or other trading partners
• 49% improvement in customer satisfaction

Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Benefits

• Connections Simplified
  Rapidly onboard and connect with new customers and partners taking advantage of our 3.1M+ business in our network. API and EDI connections on the same platform greatly simplifies your B2B operations.
• Visibility
  Natural language AI queries gives business users visibility to data and transaction status. Customizable automated alerts allow your business to manage by exception saving time.
• Partner management
  With the managed service (Premium) option, IBM will onboard and maintain customer and partner connections so you can focus on your business.
• Flexibility
  The IBM managed, or self-service options provide the flexibility to customize the platform to best align with your available IT resources. New IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS „Essentials Edition“ has a very low price point starting at $2800/12 months with the abiity to scale to any number of partner gconnections or maps.
• Resiliency
  As a SaaS offering, modernization is built in. IBM keeps you up to date with the
  latest security protections, scalability, and reliability capabilities

The digital communications you have with your customers and suppliers is the lifeblood of your business. Now any size organization can easily connect with large corporate enterprises that do business via EDI or APIs. A single SaaS platform for data exchange can accelerate revenue now and
position you to rapidly pursue marketplace opportunities.

What partners can act as trusted advisors for software decisions?

They add value by assessing client’s needs and defining the best approach to meet them. They can provide services to implement and help customers decrease time and resources associated deploying and managing Sterling B2B Integration SaaS solutions.

Recommended Business Skills:

• Ability to develop ROI according to Customer needs.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams.

Recommended Technical Skills (beyond IBM solutions)

• Knowledge of B2B Integration, EDI and API capabilities for data exchange including:
• EDI Data Format transformation / mapping
• EDI Protocol communication management
• API communication management
• EDI VAN technology familiarity
• Knowledge of Supply Chain processes

Recommended Technical Sales Skills

• Ability to connect insights to  actionable outcomes
• Understanding of customer use cases in industries such as:
  Automotive, Manufacturing/Industrial, Transportation & Logistics, Retail, CPG, Energy and Utilities
• IBM Proficiency badges available (see product enablement section)

Recommended Skills todevelop Services Practice

Certification for implementing customer maps and code lists including: – Detailed process guide outlining roles and responsibilities – Map Training outlining map development and Best Practices

Sterling B2B Integration SaaS is a Modern and reliable B2B data exchange solutions built for demanding workloads

EDI and API routing with document transformation for any-to-any data exchange

• B2Bi SaaS Premium Edition Self serve capabilities to attract more ecosystem resellers
• B2Bi SaaS Starter Edition(New) PLGE Targeting SMB