Perceptant B2B Exchange
Introduction
Generic B2B messaging hubs have their place with many established vendors including Sterling Commerce, GXS and Inovis providing solutions that enable companies to roll-out electronic trading to its supply base.
To tailor traditional hubs though for specific vertical markets frequently requires a high degree of bespoke customisation and professional services. Customers are often left with “black boxes” that initially meet their requirements but are inflexible, costly to maintain and troublesome to update.
Perceptant B2B Exchange addresses these concerns and is rapidly becoming the Vertical Market Hub of choice for many leading trading communities. Fully branded if you wish, our products, services and staff can assume your corporate identity, safeguarding your market position and customer relationships.
Customer success
Take for example COINS-ETC a state of the art B2B Exchange for the construction industry. Bringing together Europe’s leading construction companies, including their suppliers and customers, COINS-ETC facilitates flawless electronic trading across thousands of users as well as the exchange of industry specific data, business rules and workflow.
Innovative approach
Due to the solutions innovative topology, state of the art architecture, open framework and unique “vertical market logic” library & development environment, Perceptant’s B2B Exchange can be quickly configured to service specific supply chains, including those in Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals , Logistics , Manufacturing, CPG, Retailing , Financial Services and Electronics
Addressing your specific regulatory, compliance and industry business logic, B2B Exchange is a fully-managed service that includes:
- Hosting
- Solutions externalised via SaaS and Cloud Computing
- Ongoing, support, maintenance and live running
- Trading partner recruitment, testing, live running, support and account management
- Fixed price integration across your supply chain
In detail
Perceptant B2B Exchange is an on-demand vertical market exchange that includes any-to-any messaging (EDI, XML, flat files etc) and transport protocol (VAN’s, HTTP, FTP, AS2 etc). By simply plugging in to the B2B Exchange cloud, all trading partners have access to its sophisticated functionality and fully-managed integration services.
The solution was designed from the ground up to remove all of the limitations found in competitive products and services, including:
- “Vertical Market oObject” configuration and development environment that facilitates the rapid implementation of business logic, rules, and workflow that’s specific to your market and it’s trading, regulatory and risk requirements.
- A simple annual usage fee for the software vendor, consulting company or hub, which is volume agnostic (VAN usage dependent)
- Unique revenue sharing models between Perceptant and the host
- No cost and fixed timescale integration with host’s core computing systems (up to three messages)
- Any new messages mapped to core computing systems for a fixed fee and timescale
- Full suite of promotional campaigns to announce the new service, including branded literature, website templates, webcasts, internet based training programs and email marketing
- Full account management services across your community including regular branded updates, branded hospitality, user forums and on-site account updates
- Any-to-any transport protocols including VAN’s, HTTP, AS2 and FTP
- Fixed price and timescale message mapping for ALL trading partners, immaterial of size and complexity
- All software exclusively available on-demand via SaaS, which we host, scale, support and maintain
- No additional software or hardware required at the hub
- No additional software or hardware required at the trading partner
- Roll-out costs are part of the service and fully inclusive
The markets we serve
Designed for Enterprise Software Vendors, Consulting Companies and Vertical Market Trading Communities, B2B Exchange will empower you to:
- Enterprise Software Vendors – Build a business within your business. Integrate B2B Exchange into your applications and comprehensively address your vertical markets electronic trading and supply chain requirements. Perceptant can promote, brand and rollout the new service with as much or as little interaction as you wish. The new service will give you a competitive advantage, make it virtually impossible for customers to decouple your software, improve their satisfaction levels and in turn build a substantial revenue stream for you through our unique revenue sharing model.
- Consulting companies – Do you have specific customer requirements to address or are you looking to build and offer a new vertical market exchange or discrete industry service? By partnering with Perceptant, your branding and corporate identity is secured, we share the revenue and all our products and services are fixed cost and timescale. Furthermore, we’re immensely proud of what we do, the service we offer and the satisfaction we generate. This initial project therefore should be viewed as the first stepping stone towards a long and mutually beneficial relationship between us, especially when you consider that vertical market exchanges are only one of a number of our core capabilities.
- Vertical Market Trading Communities – Have you dabbled with a competitive product or are you yet to join the party due to the limitations of current solutions or prohibitive costs? For communities that use competitive products we can slash your running costs, implement a platform that’s capable of so much more, become an integral part of your own organisation by branding the applications and assuming your corporate identity, free up valuable resources and rapidly increase your communities adoption and satisfaction of your vertical market trading service. For communities or hosts who are sitting on the sidelines, take a look at COINS-ETC and how within a short space of time they’ve used B2B Express to build Europe’s leading construction exchange. Whatever your position, for a fixed annual usage cost that’s inclusive of roll-out services we can provide a fully-managed and sophisticated B2B Exchange across all your trading partners that will be seen as value add, easy to use, comprehensive and cost effective.
Find out more
To learn more about our solutions, the industries we serve and why Perceptant is becoming the e-commerce partner of choice for many leading companies, click here
B2B Exchange from Perceptant
- “Vertical Market Object” configuration and development environment, facilitating rapid implementation of business logic, rules, and workflow specific to your trading patterns, regulatory and risk issues
- A simple annual usage fee which is volume agnostic (VAN usage dependent)
- Unique revenue sharing models between Perceptant and the host
- Fixed fee and timescale implementation
- No cost and fixed timescale integration with host’s core systems, for up to three messages
- Any new messages mapped to core computing systems for a fixed fee and timescale
- Open to ANY message format , supply chain data and transport protocol
- Full suite of promotional campaigns to announce the new service, including branded literature, website templates, webcasts, internet based training programs and email marketing
- Product exclusively available via Saas and cloud computing. No additional hardware or software required by host or trading partners
Discuss your requirements
Do you have more questions or simply wish to discuss your requirements in more detail? Contact our solutions team here solutions@perceptant.com