What are the business benefits of implementing interoperable products based on todays messaging standards such as AS2, AS1 and ebXML?
Secure, reliable transport of data over Internet protocols is a primary benefit to companies in today’s global marketplace, and the use of the AS2 protocol can lower costs for companies and their suppliers. For example, the AS2 standard grows out of work in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to build a more reliable and secure way of moving messages — not just EDI transaction sets, but any sort of message — via the Internet. It includes built-in support for public key encryption (PKI), which secures every transaction sent over the network, not just the communications channel itself. “AS2, ebXML and SOAP: Which Messaging Standard to Select for Your Supply Chain and Why” report provides an introductory overview of these messaging service standards, offers guidelines for making business decisions about these messaging technologies, compares AS2 and ebMS (electronic business using XML Messaging Services) to each other, and compares them to SOAP, in a balanced, vendor-neutral fash
