PartnerCommunity's Electronic Bonding Appliance (EBA) is a full-featured, high-performance intercompany business process integration server for service providers. It allows your customers and trading partners to quickly, securely and inexpensively interconnect their systems with yours.

You tell us what interfaces you want your customers and partners to use to transact with you and we will pre-configure and pre-test the EBA to your specification. The EBA has predefined application interface and adaptors to your customers' and partners' systems so it can be quickly integrated with their systems.

Features
PartnerCommunity's EBA has a rich feature set providing:

• Turn-key, reliable and secure connectivity between a specific service provider and its customer or partner with full auditability.
  
• Flexible data/protocol validation, transformation, and mediation based on an extensible XML architecture.
  
• Enforcement of business processes required for intercompany transactions.
  
• Easy-to-use APIs and adaptors for integrating with back-office enterprise applications in heterogeneous operating environments.
  
• A secure web interface for transaction logs, status and reports.
  
• Remote manageability and support for enterprise management applications.

Benefits
Certified and proven by leading global telecommunications carriers, the EBA provides important advantages over alternative methods of system and process integration. The most important of these are:

• Rapid, cost-effective integration: Because the EBA is preconfigured and pre-tested with the service provider, time and costs for integrating and testing with the service provider over the internet are drastically reduced. Its flexible APIs and integration adaptors allow rapid integration to the customer/partner's back-office application.
  
• Rapid Deployment: EBA offers a perfect solution for service providers with large numbers of customers and trading partners. Because it is pre-packaged with all the required hardware and software, as well as pre-configured with all the necessary capabilities, it can be deployed more rapidly - and with less effort from your staff - than any other integration server. EBA also maximizes consistency among your customers' and trading partners' integration environments. No longer will you have to put up with customers operating with one-off integrations while you struggle with maintenance costs and support issues.
  
• Increased manageability: EBA is significantly easier to operate and manage than alternative systems. It increases your control and minimizes complexity by providing a single point for monitoring, testing, upgrading and auditing, as well as encapsulating company-specific protocols.

Architecture
Like all PartnerCommunity products, the Electronic Bonding Appliance is designed to fully support both existing and emerging standards. Built on an XML-based architecture, it supports all standard protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, SOAP and other web service protocols. EBA also provides all format transformation and data validation for the exchange of messages between your system and that of your partner.

Results
PartnerCommunity's EBA is ideal for service providers who need to integrate with and manage a large number of customers and trading partners. Its pre-configured, pre-tested, remotely manageable design enhances your ability to deliver exceptional service, ensuring the loyalty of your customers and trading partners.

EBA's rapid deployment capability and consistent operating environment mean it's now feasible for large service providers to manage and upgrade thousands of interconnected system. And EBA's low operating costs will help you improve your bottom line while you secure your competitive success.