Once that phase was complete, the HPE team introduced
the core processing and logic engine into the product, giv-
ing the cloud service the ability to support transactions
between any customer and any trading partner. This cre-
ated a fully-enabled any-to-any transaction system within
the Microsoft Azure cloud. transformation logic, the company’s hybridized approach
can blend the power of traditional EDI with modern web
services and APIs. This breaks down barriers for businesses
needing to exchange data with a global trading partner
community that requires a complex variety of document
types, data formats and communication protocols.
In the final phase, which is targeted for completion by the
end of 2019, HPE is supporting the enablement of the
management of the core engine through an easy-to-use,
customized web-driven interface. The capability to transform any business data and connect
to any trading partner can be securely provisioned, custom
engineered and dynamically scaled based on an individual
business or partner’s development requirements.
Generating Results Looking to the Future
The initial phases have been executed successfully. The
project has created support for document and data trans-
formations in the cloud technology stack. It has also estab-
lished Azure PaaS components with highly diverse connec-
tor support for B2B messaging – all maintained by the
DevOps model of organization, process and execution. The project also enables Kleinschmidt to expand its offer-
ings in the future. The company is an EDI and data integra-
tion leader in freight transportation, logistics, retail, materi-
als and manufacturing, amongst other verticals. With the
implementation of a cloud-based platform, Kleinschmidt
can readily offer more streamlined, secure transactional
services to other industries, such as healthcare, finance and
biosciences, which require rapid scalability and specialized
processing environments. The company also aims to use
the agility offered by the cloud to expand its offerings in
consulting, hosted SaaS environments and solution-specific
ERP and business system integration solutions.
The new system enables Kleinschmidt to offer managed
B2B connectivity, mapping and data translation software
services utilizing the capabilities of both the highly scalable
Azure public cloud platform alongside the on-premises
HPE NonStop system and processing back end. Supported
by Kleinschmidt’s custom any-to-any data processing and
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