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Fulfill Your Business Goals

Goal	Details	How B2B helps
Connect with trading partners	Your organization needs to automate the exchange of data with trading partners.	With B2B, you can: Connect with trading partners through traditional and modern protocols. Manage EDI and non-EDI business documents. Onboard trading partners with ease. Quickly create integrations with core business logic in a low-code environment.
Monitor the exchange of information	Whether you work with one trading partner or thousands, you don't want to lose track of anything.	With B2B, you can effectively monitor integrations and keep track of everything that you exchange with trading partners.
Ensure smooth operational management	You need to keep your operations running smoothly, even through unplanned events.	B2B supports smooth operational management, including: Seamless resubmission. The ability to process batches. The scheduling of trading partner downtime.

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How B2B helps

Connect with trading partners

Your organization needs to automate the exchange of data with trading partners.

With B2B, you can:

Connect with trading partners through traditional and modern protocols.
Manage EDI and non-EDI business documents.
Onboard trading partners with ease.
Quickly create integrations with core business logic in a low-code environment.

Monitor the exchange of information

Whether you work with one trading partner or thousands, you don't want to lose track of anything.

With B2B, you can effectively monitor integrations and keep track of everything that you exchange with trading partners.

Ensure smooth operational management

You need to keep your operations running smoothly, even through unplanned events.

B2B supports smooth operational management, including:

Seamless resubmission.
The ability to process batches.
The scheduling of trading partner downtime.

B2B Essentials

Area	More information
Definition	B2B provides business-to-business integration. B2B integrations allow your organization to use predefined and mutually agreed-upon standards to communicate with your trading partner community, including vendors, suppliers, and business partners. Exchange data and work with wire and business messages using the formats and protocols of your choice. You can integrate Oracle and non-Oracle applications. B2B functionality is combination of the following: Configuration: Configure your Trading Partner Agreements (TPAs) in Oracle Integration, including creating trading partners and identifying the documents and protocol you'll use with them. Integrations: Integrations power all B2B-related business processes. Integrations use the information that you configured to perform tasks, including verifying senders and files, processing documents, and sending responses.
Usage	B2B processes data from trading partners, either before or after an integration runs. Your trading partner can send the data that it has, and B2B transforms it into the data that you need. The reverse is also true: You can send the data that you have, and B2B processes it so that it becomes the data that your trading partner needs. To process the data correctly for both sides, define the following information: Documents: Define the structure and format of the data to be exchanged. B2B supports EDI document standards, including X12, EDIFACT, and X12 HIPAA; as well as non-EDI standards, including XML, Fixed Length, and Custom Delimited. Schemas: Establish how you and your trading partners interpret the fields in the documents that you exchange. Protocols: Specify the connection type that you and your trading partner use to exchange data. B2B supports traditional protocols (including AS2, AS4, FTP, and RosettaNet) and modern protocols (including REST, XML, and flat files). See Supported Protocols and Standards in Using B2B for Oracle Integration 3. B2B also supports operational management, including the ability to manage trading partner downtime without impacting your day-to-day activities. When a trading partner experiences downtime, you can continue your business as usual. Oracle Integration queues the message until the trading partner is available to receive them. If you exchange files with a trading partner, be aware that File Server is a built-in SFTP server. You and your trading partners can drop files to File Server, and then Oracle Integration can read and process the files. See File Server. To see more real-world case studies, see Review Use Cases.
AI-powered capabilities	Integrations handle the exchange and processing of data and feature numerous AI-powered capabilities. Additionally, you can use AI to gain insights into B2B error messages and create a trading partner by providing a prompt. To explore all AI features, see AI Innovation and Oracle Integration in Using Integrations in Oracle Integration 3.
Primary users	Integration developers. See Users of Oracle Integration.
Availability	B2B is available in select Oracle Integration editions. See Oracle Integration Editions in Provisioning and Administering Oracle Integration 3.

Good to Know

Area	More information
Deployment	Simplify your CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment) pipeline by working in a project. A project is a single workspace for designing, managing, deploying, and monitoring your automation solution. A project offers fine-grained control over code promotion, including selecting the individual components and their versions to promote to higher environments. See Projects.
Error handling	All of the error handling capabilities for integrations are applicable to B2B integrations. See Integrate Applications. Additionally, B2B offers several features to keep your business running smoothly: Prevent errors by identifying the data that you accept and reject. See Configure Error Rules for EDI Translation in Using B2B for Oracle Integration 3. Specify the errors to always ignore or always see. For example, if a supplier cannot fully conform to a standard, you can ignore the expected error codes and allow the process to continue.
Monitoring and troubleshooting	B2B provides monitoring capabilities that are specific to exchanging data with trading partners. When you and your trading partner reach agreement on the documents that you exchange, you also identify the responses that you expect. B2B allows you to easily track these responses, such as when a supplier acknowledges the receipt of a document. After all, when you're troubleshooting an issue, you need to know what's going on with an order or a specific document exchange, not its underlying integration. B2B provides the following information at a glance: Business messages: Review the documents that you've sent or received, as well as their statuses. Wire messages: Review all the responses that you've sent or received, as well as their statuses. More built-in observability features are available to monitor your automation solution and detect issues. See Observability.

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Deployment

Simplify your CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment) pipeline by working in a project. A project is a single workspace for designing, managing, deploying, and monitoring your automation solution. A project offers fine-grained control over code promotion, including selecting the individual components and their versions to promote to higher environments. See Projects.

Error handling

All of the error handling capabilities for integrations are applicable to B2B integrations. See Integrate Applications.

Additionally, B2B offers several features to keep your business running smoothly:

Prevent errors by identifying the data that you accept and reject. See Configure Error Rules for EDI Translation in Using B2B for Oracle Integration 3.
Specify the errors to always ignore or always see. For example, if a supplier cannot fully conform to a standard, you can ignore the expected error codes and allow the process to continue.

Monitoring and troubleshooting

B2B provides monitoring capabilities that are specific to exchanging data with trading partners.

When you and your trading partner reach agreement on the documents that you exchange, you also identify the responses that you expect. B2B allows you to easily track these responses, such as when a supplier acknowledges the receipt of a document. After all, when you're troubleshooting an issue, you need to know what's going on with an order or a specific document exchange, not its underlying integration.

B2B provides the following information at a glance:

Business messages: Review the documents that you've sent or received, as well as their statuses.
Wire messages: Review all the responses that you've sent or received, as well as their statuses.

More built-in observability features are available to monitor your automation solution and detect issues. See Observability.

Explore Your Next Steps

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Learn about and plan automation	Compare and Plan Automation Review Use Cases
Start building	See Get Started with B2B in Using B2B for Oracle Integration 3

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Learn about and plan automation

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