iHUB
Fully-managed, hosted and maintained B2B messaging and EDI
Welcome to iHUB, a completely fresh take on B2B and EDI messaging that allows you to implement sophisticated capabilities across your entire customer base or trading community, without the need for any connected party to install additional hardware or software.
Fully branded if you wish, hosted, supported and maintained by Perceptant, not only does the product dramatically cut your initial investment and ongoing running costs but also takes all the pain out of trading partner participation.
Designed for Enterprise Software Companies, Consultancies and Vertical Market Trading Communities, iHUB is accessed by simply plugging your applications in to our cloud. Together with any-to-any message and network protocol translation capabilities and fully-managed message mapping services that are fixed fee and timescale, you’re good to go.
The Market demands more
The market for B2B messaging hubs is mature and fairly well established. Many vendors including Sterling Commerce, GXS and Inovis have solutions that enable companies to roll-out electronic trading to its supply base.
Although the benefits of EDI and more lately XML have been widely publicised, however adoption is still restricted to a cross-section of companies and their often beleaguered trading partners. Why? Well more often than not the hub or host has to invest a substantial amount of money to establish the service, their suppliers are reluctant to adopt the service because of cost and lack of integration, roll-outs are slow to progress and the ongoing running costs for all concerned are prohibitive.
iHUB delivers
Designed for Enterprise Software Vendors, Consulting Companies and Vertical Market Trading Communities, iHUB will empower you to:
Enterprise Software Vendors - Build a business within your business. Integrate iHUB into your applications and comprehensively address your customer’s electronic trading 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 B2B product or 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 B2B messaging is only one of a number of our core capabilities.
Vertical Market Trading Communities - Do you use a competitive product or have you yet to join the fray due to prohibitive costs? For hub’s 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 electronic trading service. For communities or hosts who have yet to dip their toes in the water, for a fixed annual usage cost that’s inclusive of roll-out services you can harness to provide a fully-managed and sophisticated B2B messaging service across all your trading partners that will be seen as value add, easy to use, comprehensive and cost effective.
iHUB in detail
iHUB is an on-demand, hosted B2B messaging and EDI service that will happily use any message format (EDI, XML, flat files etc) and any transport protocol (VAN’s, HTTP, FTP, AS2 etc). The product has been designed form the ground up to remove all of the limitations found in competitive products and services, including:
- 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 for 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
- Thousands of mapped documents readily available
- Roll-out costs are part of the service and fully inclusive
Find out more
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B2B Messaging from Perceptant
- Open platform and trading partner solutions that are volume fee agnostic
- Fixed fee and timescale implementation
- Open to any message format and transport protocol
- Product exclusively available via SaaS. Simply plug in to our cloud
- No additional hardware or software required by host or trading partners
- Unique hub revenue sharing model
- Fully-managed projects that require little or no personal intervention
- Rebranded applications. services and support if required
- Fully-managed, promoted & rebranded community roll-out
- Fully proven with excellent references
- Quick Integration in to your applications
- Knowledgeable and dedicated service and support personnel with decades of experience in EDI, Supply Chain Integration and B2B Messaging
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