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Chapter 1 Introduction : Product Overview

Product Overview
TIBCO BusinessConnect is a business-to-business (B2B) gateway that your company can use to engage in electronic commerce with your partners. It enables secure transmission of documents and messages between partners using disparate internal business systems.
TIBCO BusinessConnect supports multiple protocols (also called standards) for electronic commerce, such as TIBCO BusinessConnect™ EDI Protocol powered by Instream®, TIBCO BusinessConnect™ RosettaNet Protocol, and TIBCO BusinessConnect™ SOAP Protocol.
TIBCO BusinessConnect includes the following major features:
TIBCO BusinessConnect uses TIBCO Administrator as its graphical user interface, making it especially familiar and easy-to-use for existing TIBCO customers.
Business agreements, an essential component of any B2B implementation, can be easily constructed with TIBCO BusinessConnect. A business agreement defines the protocol or protocols that you use to exchange documents with your partner. It defines the transport method, for example, HTTPS or email, and the operations that each partner is allowed to transact.
An operation is the sending or receiving of a business document. Each operation is associated with the type of the exchanged document, the information needed to process, receive, and send the document.
When you set up operations at the system level for use with multiple partners, TIBCO BusinessConnect gives you the flexibility to override individual aspects of an operation as needed for specific partners.
Local hosts and remote partners are both participants with very similar requirements in terms of identifying information and technical specifications. For example, in configuring both types of participants, you have to provide information about locations, contacts, available protocols, and security credentials. For ease of use, TIBCO BusinessConnect makes smart distinctions between the two in the user interface.

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