ILLICOM Achieves eBusinessReady Certification for EDI-INT (AS2)

Certification to New Internet Security Standard Underscores ILLICOMS Commitment to Industry Standards and Brings New Functionality and Performance to our Customers.

Certification to New Internet Security Standard Underscores ILLICOMS Commitment to Industry Standards and Brings New Functionality and Performance to our Customers.

Atlanta, Georgia and Paris, France (PRWEB) October 23 2003. ILLICOM , Europes leading developer of software to manage enterprise data and application integration, announces the successful completion of the eBusinessReady certification process for the EDI-INT AS2 Internet security standard.

ILLICOMS TradeXpress Enterprise was among first 22 software products certified earlier this year as conforming to the new HTTP-based Internet standard sponsored by the Uniform Code Council (UCC).

The eBusinessReady program provides neutral third party testing of solutions for interoperability and compliance.
eBusinessReady is a joint partnership of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC) and Drummond Group, Inc. (DGI).
Certification indicates vertical and horizontal interoperability and compliance of various software solutions across the global supply chain.
For more information, visitwww.ebusinessready.org.
About EDI-INT (AS2)
EDI-INT (Electronic Data Interchange Internet Integration) is an interchange protocol designed to allow the use of the Internet
for EDI and B2B applications. EDIINT is made of two Applicability Statements: AS1 and AS2. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is
the draft specification standard by which vendor applications communicate EDI (or other data such as XML) over the Internet
using HTTP(s).

AS2 offers several advantages, including increased verification and security achieved through the use of receipts and digital
signatures. AS2 transactions and acknowledgements occur in real-time, increasing the efficiency of document exchanges.
EDIINT AS2 is recommended by several international organizations such as the IETF, the UCC, the W3C, and has been
adopted by a growing number of companies worldwide.
About Illicom and TradeXpress Enterprise
ILLICOM is Europes leading supplier of integrated EDI, EAI and B2B solutions. TradeXpress Enterprise provides a flexible and
robust integration framework for the intercommunication of all types of applications and assists businesses as they move into e-commerce
applications.
TradeXpress Enterprise is the first solution that integrates all data flows through a single platform:
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) including XML
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
B2B Integration (or eEAI)
TradeXpress protects existing investments, considerably reduces interface costs, and centralizes and unifies the various data
sources or trade rules of a company. TradeXpress is easy to deploy, extend, integrate and scale, and provides high value and
rapid ROI.
Founded in 1984, ILLICOM is headquartered just outside of Paris, France. With distributors throughout Europe and Asia Pacific,
Illicom Software has more than 1250 installations of TradeXpress from customers large and small and across diverse industries.
Global 2000 customers include Heineken, Ford, Mitsubishi, PPG, GE Capital, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, L'Oréal, Hewlett
Packard, Panasonic, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Thomson, Bertelsman Music, France Telecom, and Telecom Australia.
More information about the company can be found at http://www.illicom-usa.com.
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