Softshare's AS1/AS2/AS3 Solutions

The EDIINT AS1, AS2, and AS3 security standards ensure the authentication, message integrity, nonrepudiation, and privacy of EDI data sent over the Internet. AS2, in particular, is being embraced by companies across many industries, notably grocery and retail, because it allows companies to take advantage of inexpensive HTTP communications as an alternative to more costly third-party value-added networks (VANs).

Softshare's EDIINT-Compliant Software

If your company is seeking AS2 compliance, Softshare ECS, our e-commerce server, natively supports the AS2 standard (as well as the AS1 and AS3 standards). Our clients currently use ECS for direct AS2 connectivity with several fellow AS2 applications, including:

• BizManager BizLink by Inovis
• Boomi AS2 Transport
• Cyclone Interchange
• Cleo LexiCom
• Cleo VL Trader
• Gentran Integration Suite
• IPNet eBizness
• nuBridges Commerce Suite (formerly iSoft)
• Trailblazer
• WebMethods

Softshare's AS2 Network Communities

In addition to providing direct AS2 connectivity to your trading partner via ECS, Softshare has begun establishing AS2 network communities with large companies that are rolling out AS2. In an AS2 network community arrangement, AS2 connectivity happens over Softshare's network instead of at your desktop via a software application. You'll use our software to view, create, and pass EDI data to our network and we take it from there, handling all the details of AS2 compliance on our network, including EDI data encryption/decryption and the exchange of MDNs.

 View Softshare's current AS2 network communities

The underlying Internet transport protocol is what sets the three EDIINT standards apart from each other.