Webswell Business Hub is a business integration solution for advanced business documents interchange. Companies or units connected to the Business Hub are able to interchange their documents with others even when they use incompatible data formats and support different messaging protocol. For instance, an invoice sent by Sender as EDI document via https can be received by a Receiver as a XML invoice via SMTP.

Being transmitted through the Business Hub, the business document can be transformed, translated, validated or verified automatically which significantly reduces requirements for IT infrastructure at Senders and Receivers sites.  In case of multi-node networks with hundreds connected companies the cost reduction is enormous.

Another big advantage is built-in business process engine which allows to conduct and monitor business processes defined at the higher level (inter-company level rather than intra-company) giving the possibility to view actual states of business process instances in a real-time even though there are many companies involved in the process.

Webswell Business Hub is a solution that can be deployed on customer's site or can be completely hosted by Webswell.  Outsourcing of the Webswell Business Hub allows users to exchange business documents with their partners that suppot ebXML, AS2, EDI or Web Services, with no need to implement these technologies on their site.

There is a number of types of potential Webswell Business Hub users such as:

• Small companies that have simple or no IT infrastructure, but their big customers require particular way of communication such as EbXML or AS2.
  
• Companies that that need to exchange business documents that are incompatible with other parties (parties use proprietary XML, text or CSV files etc.).
• Large multi-branch corporations that need to automate internal business data interchange.
• Distributed corporations that need to aggregate their business documents automatically before submitting them to third parties and/or distributing the data received to appropriate nodes within the Hub network.
  

Here are several advantages of having Webswell Business Hub outsourced (while it is still possible to purchase Webswell Business Hub, have it deployed and used it in-house):

• Hosted solution is much cheaper compared to implementing and maintaining corresponding technology on your site.
• Once the Webswell Business Hub is configured the customer pays small administration fee and a fee for documents transmitted. There is no hidden cost.
• Webswell Business Hub implements reliable messaging. The customer will not miss any messages even when customer's systems or network connection are down. Messages will be delivered when the connection is re-established.
• No yet another technology in-house that no-one understands and is able to maintain.
• Exact summary, history and actual status of all messages sent/received are available 24/7 through web interface.