ABB's objective was to consolidate its EDI infrastructure distributed among four locations in Germany. For its offer of migrating the solutions implemented among different Seeburger technologies to a central platform, QUIBIQ was awarded the contract. The decisive factors for this were the real-time analysis feature of the BizTalk Server and the simple integration in Microsoft Office for process control.

Solution

The BizTalk Server was implemented as the central integration platform for around 1,200 suppliers with the message types ORDERS, DESADV and INVOIC in the format EDIFACT d96a. Thanks to the integration in Microsoft Office, administrators can control the associated processes (who receives which messages) directly from Office. With the business activity monitoring feature, the management receives real-time analyses of data exchange content. Communication with two SAP systems and the archive system was realised via SAP XI.

Advantages for ABB

• Consolidation of eight servers at four locations on two servers at one location
• Reduction of mappings from over 1,000 to under 100 through standardisation with intelligent architecture
• The department can carry out the partner configuration and control of message processing independently from Office (and not just the IT admins any longer)
• Real-time access to all transaction data and management analyses