Key Features of GridTalkTM
Integration & Process Automation
GridTalkTM can be interfaced with back-end systems, allowing companies to become Web-Enabled quickly and to jump-start on collaborating with their business partners. GridTalkTM also enables automatic routing and mapping of documents for to back-end systems. GridTalkTM allows customers to link processes electronically with trading partners, reducing cycle time, enhancing operational efficiency and minimising error rates resulting from manual entry of data.
Document Management
GridTalkTM enables easy management of transactions by providing the user with transaction visibility and enables tracking of all document exchange activities, as well as auditing, logging and transaction reports. GridTalkTM enables reprocessing and resending of failed documents. Users will be notified for any document transmission/conversion failure via the email alert function. The Archival function enables users to housekeep the data in the system while the Search function facilitates the user to locate particular transaction.
Flexible Adoption of Different Business Document Formats
GridTalkTM caters to businesses that have different document formats. GridTalkTM accepts document in any format, such as Excel, XML or Word and supports business semantic standards such as Rosettanet, UN/EDIFACT and ANSI X12.
Supports Different B2B Protocol and Industry Standards
GridTalkTM enables document exchange over a large number of protocols and leading industry standards:
Transport Protocols | Document Exchange Protocols
| Industry Standards |
HTTP HTTPS SMTP FTP FTPS | AS2 RNIF | UN-EDIFACT ANSI X12 Rosettanet |
Ease of Deployment
GridTalkTM is fully developed using Java, which means that it can be readily deployed on all commonly available operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Solaris. GridTalkTM is designed based on open standards, providing extensibility and ‘plug and play’ functionality which is cost-effective to deploy and use.
Security and Authentication
GridTalkTM uses RSA Security’s globally recognised PKI infrastructure as well as Secure Socket Layers (SSL). It also provides automatic acknowledgement and time-stamping of documents upon receipt, based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). GridTalkTM also works in conjunction with corporate firewalls to allow the secure flow of business documents beyond the enterprise without requiring changes to established security infrastructures.
Supports Enterprise Scalability & Availability
GridTalkTM enables transaction and event monitoring, as well as transaction reporting, giving users visibility to the transaction events and data on a real time basis. The clustering function of GridTalkTM improves performance as loads are shared, ensuring high availability with automatic failover.
