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Value Added Network

The Data Technology Business Process Platform is underpinned by the B2B network layer. This network layer provides the connectivity between trading partners, regardless of location, technology preference or IT sophistication. The network layer enables companies to exchange data in any format with their trading partners in a secure and reliable environment. Our customers exchange messages with thousands of their suppliers, customers, business partners and even intercompany.

Data Technology customers can connect to our Value Added Network (supplied by Inovis) and conduct B2B exchanges using any of the following methods:

  • Internet
  • Dedicated private network - leased line, frame relay, ISDN or dial-up
  • Public and private VPN
  • 3rd party networks such as other EDI VANs - our VAN is interconnected to all of the leading EDI VAN providers such as Sterling Commerce, GXS etc.
Data Technology also support all of the major industry-standard communications protocols, such as:
  • HTTP / HTTP(s)
  • FTP
  • SFTP (SSH)
  • FTPS (SSL)
  • AS2
  • SMTP
  • OFTP

Inovisworks

Inovisworks is one of the largest VANs in the world currently transacting over 30 million messages per day, (over 12 billion per year). The Data Technology Value Added Network service is all about supplying practical, cost effective solutions that provide our customers with the flexibly to exchange critical business documents with their trading partners, regardless of data format and connectivity standards.

Benefits

Our bills are totally transparent. There are no hidden extras for peak and off-peak transactions. A 35 day history of all on line documents exchanged is available as standard and we do not charge our customers any extra "storage charges" or "interconnect charges", unlike our competitors some of whom will charge a fee for storage after as little as 3 days.

User friendly online interface. Our customers who have used other VANs, such as Reckitt and Benckister and Danone, have told us that the Inovisworks VAN online interface is far more user friendly. Our customers have immediate online access to the status of their business transactions in a clear and straightforward manner.

Painless Migration - Data Technolgy deal with the migration of your existing business trading partner communities onto our VAN and it will be totally seamless to everyone. Our migration expertise is second to none and we have a proven methodology, recently migrating one organisation with 2,500+ trading partners from the GXS Van to Inovisworks in just 2 weeks!

99.995% availability - High availability of our VAN is ensured and there have been no major outages, unlike some of our competitors! In addition the Inovis Business Process Protection Services protect the quality, governance and security of your data traffic.

Visibility and Control - The Inovis web portal give your business control of all your transaction detail, allowing you to track your documents, perform advanced analytics and scorecard your partners. An extended online archiving facility of up to 10 years is available to customers who wish to monitor over an extended period.