VAN Services

Precision E-Business Group’s EDI VAN is a private network for secure information exchange between companies using EDI.  It is a highly reliable, cost-effective service with fee-structures that are based on volume of transactions, eliminating character transmission fees. Companies can connect and disconnect from the VAN at their discretion, increase bandwidth on demand and have a variety of alert services that are built-in.

 

PEG’s EDI VAN benefits include:

·         A mailbox service. This service allows your trading partners to dial into the VAN through a designated network access point and use file transfer protocol (FTP) to send their messages to the VAN. The PEG EDI VAN routes the message to the designated receiver’s mailbox for receipt.

·         Acting as a trusted third party serviced by inspecting and authenticating EDI messages and verifying the identities of those involved n the EDI transaction.

·         Providing a complete tracking, recording and audit trail of all EDI transactions and messages.

·         Notifying trading partners of EDI messages delivery via simple Email notifications.

·         Providing other support services such as data backup, recovery, EDI Mapping, and more.

 

Disaster Recovery

Despite misconceptions by many businesses and IT leaders, EDI/e-commerce applications have evolved into mission critical applications. Front office and back office systems depend upon EDI/E-Business for the data they need to operate manufacturing plants, stock retail stores and process financial transactions. With the trends moving toward specialization and outsourcing in the value chain, the importance of EDI/E-Business will only grow in significance. The financial consequences of EDI/E-Business downtime are too large to ignore. EDI/E-Business communication failures can result in downtime at manufacturing plants, out-of-stock situations in retail locations, performance penalties from customers, risk of losing future business, impact to corporate credit ratings and potential for missed sales. B2B e-commerce strategists need to develop highly resilient architectures capable of supporting 24/7/365 operations with a global community of business partners. Precision E-Business has a variety of custom Disaster Recovery services that can be configured to the fiscal or operational requirements of your business.  Contact us so we can construct a solution that fits your priorities.