TIBCO BusinessConnect Remote is a light-weight and very easy-to-use software application that allows you to participate in business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce with a larger trading partner. Large enterprises typically have B2B software, allowing them to transact with their large partners over the Internet eliminating the need for these companies to send and wait for purchase orders, invoices, and other business documents by mail. They also don’t need to place phone calls, leave messages, return calls, sometimes making mistakes in the process, just to place or receive an order. Their systems are typically highly automated, checking inventory and customer credit in a fraction of a second. Not all companies are in a position to pay for automated B2B systems, though.
One of your partners has a top-of-the line B2B solution in place your partner uses TIBCO BusinessConnect software to trade with their business partners over the Internet. And they want to include you in their community of trading partners. That’s why they offered you this copy of TIBCO BusinessConnect Remote software.
Figure 1 illustrates B2B ecommerce between a large company using TIBCO BusinessConnect and its small trading partner using BusinessConnect Remote. While the large company has powerful servers with many integrated applications and tons of data, the small company requires minimal space on a basic Windows or Linux desktop system to run BusinessConnect Remote software.
TIBCO BusinessConnect Remote allows you to send business documents, for example, purchase orders, invoices, requests for quotes, and acknowledgements, over the Internet to the partner that supplied you with this software. This partner is the BusinessConnect host. The software also allows you to receive these documents from the BusinessConnect host.
Sending and receiving documents using BusinessConnect Remote software is as easy as sending and receiving email. Place outgoing documents those you wish to send to the BusinessConnect host in the outbox. Look for documents coming in from the BusinessConnect host in the inbox.
In addition to sending and receiving business documents, BusinessConnect Remote allows you to watch the processing of these documents in real-time by viewing the real-time logs.
TIBCO BusinessConnect Remote software automatically generates reports detailing document-exchange activities for archival purposes. You can review document history at any time using the BusinessConnect Remote console, limiting the results you see, if desired, by time period.
Before you can begin using BusinessConnect Remote software, your TIBCO BusinessConnect host company must have a BusinessConnect partner profile set up for you. There are two ways to set up a partner profile:
Also consider security components before you begin. Both the host and the partner have needs for securing the information that moves between you, and you both have a roll in ensuring that security. More than likely, the BusinessConnect host will want you to have at least one security credential for signing and encryption. The BusinessConnect Remote deployment wizard gives you the opportunity to upload one or more security credentials. To learn more about signing and encryption certificates, see If You Want to Know More about Document Security.
The first time you use BusinessConnect Remote software, your experience should go something like this:
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