- A
- Account Admin
- The Account Admin module allows you to view and edit the information that
identifies your company to the network. This screen is also used to
manage console access privileges to other personnel in your
organization.
- Action
- Actions performed on a document by the system to ensure its compatibility
with business requirements between participants.
- Action Instance ID
- Identifies documents with content that is of a business nature, such as a
purchase order or RFQ.
- Activation
- Connecting a participant to the system.
- Alert
- Alerts provide for rapid notification and resolution when pre-established
operating limits have been breached. An alert consists of a text based
e-mail message sent to individuals or a distribution list of key personnel
either within or outside the Network. Alerts can be based on the
occurrence of a system event or expected process volume.
- Attempt Count
- Indicates whether transaction is a first attempt or a retry. 1 is a
first attempt. 2 or greater are number of retries.
- B
- Business Process
- A predefined set of transactions that represent the method of performing
the work needed to achieve a business objective.
- Business Rules Testing
- The process of testing and repairing document content errors between
participants.
- Business Signal Code
- Identifies type of signal (document) sent in response to an action.
Examples include receipt or acceptance acknowledgment, or general
exception.
- C
- Participant connection
- A participant connection defines the connection between two specific
community member's environments by which one unique process is
executed.
- Choreography
- The required order of documents needed to successfully complete a business
process.
- Classification
- Identifies role of participant in a business process.
- Closed
- Date and time last document in a process is transacted or a process has
been cancelled.
- Community Console
- The Community Console is a Web based tool used to monitor the flow of your
company's business documents to and from your Community Manager or
participants.
- Community Manager Child
- Community Manager Child is a special participant type that acts like a
participant in the console but like a Community Manager when routing.
- Community Participant
- A hub community member that exchanges business transactions with the
Community Manager.
- D
- Data Mitigation
- The process of testing and repairing errors in document structure and
format based on business process standards.
- Digital Signature
- A digital signature is an electronic signature that is used to
authenticate the identity of participants, and to ensure that the original
content of a document that has been sent is unchanged.
- Document
- A collection of information adhering to an organizational
convention. Information can be text, pictures, and sound.
- Document Flow Definition
- Gives the system all of the necessary information to receive, process, and
route documents between community members. Document flow definition
types include package, protocol, document flow, activity and action.
- Document Protocol
- A set of rules and instructions (protocol) for the formatting and
transmission of information across a computer network. Examples include
RosettaNet, XML, flat file, and EDI.
- DUNS
- The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identification sequence,
which provides unique identifiers of single business entities, while linking
corporate family structures together. D&B links the D&B D-U-N-S
Numbers of parents, subsidiaries, headquarters and branches on more than 64
million corporate family members around the world. Used by the
world's most influential standards-setting organizations, it is
recognized, recommended and often required by more than 50 global, industry
and trade associations, including the United Nations, the U.S.
Federal Government, the Australian Government and the European
Commission. In today's global economy, the D&B D-U-N-S Number
has become the standard for keeping track of the world's
businesses.
- E
- EDI
- The computer-to-computer transfer of information in a structured,
pre-determined format. Traditionally, the focus of EDI activity has
been on the replacement of pre-defined business forms, such as purchase orders
and invoices, with similarly defined electronic forms.
- Event
- A message generated by the system associated with the processing of
documents.
- F
- Filter
- To remove data within a sub-transaction based on predefined
parameters.
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP), a standard Internet protocol, is the
simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet.
- G
- Gateway
- A B2B network point that acts as the entrance to another network.
Data translation and compatibility issues can be resolved by a gateway to
ensure data transfer.
- Gateway Type
- Identifies documents that are routed to a particular gateway during
testing or for live production.
- Global
- Contact person can be assigned alerts by participant and Community
Manager.
- Group
- A collection of users given access privilege to the console for performing
selected functions.
- H
- HTTP
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the set of rules (protocol) for
exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia
files) on the Web.
- HTTPS
- HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) is a Web
protocol that encrypts and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages
that are returned by the Web server.
- I
- In Response Business Action
- Identifies type of business document sent in response to an action in the
same process.
- In Response to ID
- ID number of In Response Business Action.
- Inbound Manager
- Retrieves documents from the NAS and prepares them for the appropriate
action task by the business process engine.
- L
- Live
- The state at which a participant has successfully completed business rules
testing, and the Community Manager issued a service request to move them to a
live status.
- P
- Packages
- Identify document packaging formats that can be received by the
system's server. For example, AS1 and AS2.
- PIP (Partner Interface Process)
- Define business processes between Community Managers and Partners (in
WebSphere Business Integration Connect, Partners are participants).
Each PIP identifies a specific business document and how it is
processed.
- Process Instance ID
- Unique identification number for a particular business process.
- Production
- Destination gateway used for routing live documents.
- Profile
- The Profile module allows you to view and edit the information that
identifies your company to the system.
- Protocols
- Identify specific types of document formats for a variety of business
processes. For example, RosettaNet and XML.
- Provisioning
- Provisioning (or on-boarding) consists of completing a sequence of steps
required for connecting a user's B2B gateway to the system
infrastructure.
- R
- Reports
- The Reports module allows users to create detailed reports on the volume
of documents being processed as well as events generated by the system.
- RNIF
- The RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) is a guideline for creating
a standard envelope-container for all Partner Interface Processes
(PIPs).
- RTF
- Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file format that lets you exchange text files
between different word processors in different operating systems. For
example, you can create a file using Microsoft Word in Windows 98, save it as
an RTF file (it will have a .rtf file name suffix), and send it to
someone who uses WordPerfect 6.0 on Windows 3.1.
- S
- Service
- Identifies whether message is RosettaNet based.
- Servlet
- Small program running on the Web server that writes the incoming document
to the NAS.
- Signal
- The document sent in response to an action.
- Signal Instance ID
- Identifies documents that are positive or negative acknowledgments sent in
response to actions.
- Signal Version
- Version of business process sent as a signal.
- SMTP
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol used in sending and receiving
e-mail.
- SR
- Service request
- SSL
- Secure sockets layer is a secure method of sending data using the HTTP
protocol.
- State
- (1) Documents being processed by the system are in one of four states
- (2) received, in progress, failed, or successful.
- Subscribed contact
- A subscribed contact is an individual who has been designated to receive
e-mail alerts.
- Substitute
- To replace data within a sub-transaction with other data based on
predefined parameters.
- T
- Test
- The state at which a participant is undergoing data mitigation or business
rules testing during the provisioning process.
- Tools
- The Tools module allows you to troubleshoot process failure by allowing
you to see faulty documents, data fields, and their associated events.
- Transaction
- A sequence of information exchange and related work that is treated as a
unit for the purposes of conducting business between participants.
- Transaction ID
- ID number of business process.
- Transform
- Replace the contents of a document with data from a cross reference
table.
- Translation
- When a document is converted from one protocol to another.
- Transport Protocol
- A set of rules (protocol) used to send data in the form of message units
between computers over the Internet. Examples include HTTP, HTTPS,
SMTP, and FTP.
- U
- URL
- A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of a document or process
(resource) accessible on the Internet.
- V
- Validation
- Validation is the act of comparing a process sub-transaction against the
specified requirements to determine its validity or invalidity. Content
and transaction sequence are typical parameters.
- Version
- The particular release of a document protocol.
- Visibility
- Visibility defines if a contact person can be assigned to an alert by a
participant (local) or also by the Community Manager (global).
- W
- Wildcard
- Criteria for wildcard searches includes the asterisk (*).
