Business Process: A predefined set of business transactions that represent the steps required to achieve a business objective.
Community Console: The Community Console is a Web based tool used to configure IBM WebSphere Business Integration Connect and to manage the flow of your company's business documents to and from your Community Manager or Participants.
Community Manager: The company that purchased and distributed WebSphere Business Integration Connect to members in their hub community. The Community Manager has one administrative user, the Manager Admin, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of the Community Manager's portion of the community.
Community Operator: The individual responsible for the configuration and overall health and maintenance of the system, hub-wide.
Community Participant: The Participant sends business transactions to and receives business transactions from the Community Manager. The Participant can access Community Console features that support their role in the community.
Digital Certificate: A digital certificate is the electronic version of an ID card. It establishes your identify when you perform B2B transactions over the Internet. Digital certificates are obtained from a Certificate Authority.
Document flow definition: A document flow definition is a collection of meta-information that defines the document-processing capabilities of the system. For the system to process a business document, two or more document flow definitions must be hierarchically linked to create a context. A context contains all the necessary information the system needs to receive, process, and route documents to the hub community.
Document: A collection of information adhering to an organizational convention. In this context, there are multiple documents in a process.
Gateway: A gateway is an entry point into another network. The hub community and the Community Participants use gateways to receive documents from each other.
Hub Community: The environment comprised of the Community Manager, Community Operator, and Community Participants.