Business Network
Integrate, manage and securely exchange data across people, systems and things
What is a business network?
A business network is a cloud platform that connects and manages all data, within the enterprise and outside the firewall. Securely connecting data with people, systems and things enables streamlined business processes and delivers new insights and value.
Business networks lay the necessary foundation for turning data into actionable insights. Delivered as a cloud service, they enable data integration, data management and secure data exchange across an increasingly complex network of on-premises and cloud applications, connected devices and business partners or customers.
OpenText Business Network overview
OpenText Business Network is a modern cloud platform that helps manage the full data lifecycle, from information capture and exchange to integration and governance.
Business Network solutions establish the necessary digital backbone for streamlined connectivity, secure collaboration and realtime business intelligence across an expanding network of internal systems, cloud applications, trading partner systems and connected devices. OpenText™ Integration Managed Services combines industry leading technology with expert people and proven processes to enable customers to focus on their core business, not data integration and management complexity.
Defeat disruption with an agile supply chain
Access an extensive library of resources to get started. Personalized and contextualized experiences throughout the entire customer lifecycle.
What’s new in Business Network Cloud
Improved ethical sourcing and surveying capabilities for Global Partner Directory
Expanded suite of API connectors to accelerate hybrid integration platforms deployment
Increased data and transaction visibility across Trading Grid Lens to establish ‘Ecosystem Control Towers’
Expanded regional compliance support for OpenText™ Active Invoices with Compliance
Deliver actionable insights into business operations with OpenText IoT Shipment Tracking Reference and Ecosystem
Expanded OpenText Freeway Cloud capabilities to speed trading partner community digitization for SMBs
Learn more about the new Business Network features in the launch blog
OpenText Business Network solutions
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Digital business integration ⟶
Connect, manage and secure all data within the firewall, between cloud applications and from external data sources.
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Data management and security ⟶
Provide easy to use data virtualization, data governance and data quality tools, such as match-merge and de-duplication. Data security includes data tokenization services to protect sensitive data (PCI, PII, PHI), while enabling the protected data to be analyzed.
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Supply chain optimization ⟶
Optimize Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash process collaboration and automation across the supply chain ecosystem. Enable visibility into purchase order status, inbound shipment timing and invoice status to deliver an optimal customer experience.
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Identity and access management ⟶
Create and manage user accounts, roles and access rights for individual users, systems and things within an organization and across an extended digital business ecosystem. Offers information security and user collaboration that goes well beyond traditional transactional information sharing with context-aware identity management.
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Industrial Internet of Things ⟶
Manage access, lifecycle and relationships of connected devices to create new business models and drive operational efficiencies with a flexible, secure identity-led industrial IoT platform.
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All Business Network products ⟶
Business Network is comprised of many products and solutions, including several from acquired companies and some in active maintenance mode. Discover all Business Network products.
OpenText Business Network benefits
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Speed time to market
Rapidly onboard new suppliers, comply with customer requirements and support new industry or regional standards to reach markets quickly. Speed time to market with a pre-connected global community of more than 1.2Million connected trading partners.
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Increase productivity
Focus on the core business of the organization, not information exchange and integration complexity. Automate manual processes and transactions to boost productivity, accelerate business processes and free up scarce resources.
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Reduce cost
Digitize manual, paper-based transactions to reduce errors and the cost to resolve them. Consolidate overlapping, disjointed systems onto a single, modern cloud platform for a single point of visibility and control. Extend internal teams with OpenText experts and processes.
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Reduce complexity
Centralize all information exchange and collaboration to send information in any format to all the organization’s trading partners, customers and other stakeholders through a single Business Network connection.
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Improve decision making
Gain visibility into transaction intensive processes with operational and business metrics. Manage by exception to focus on critical issues before they impact the business.
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Ensure data compliance
Comply with customer, industry and country data mandates by automating and applying business rules to transactions and other information exchange. Secure and control information flow with full auditability.
Customer success stories
We love the simplicity of OpenText Fax2Mail. Not having to install software and manage and deploy upgrades was a big driver for us.
We were looking for a scalable solution with security. We found that OpenText B2B Managed Services was completely in line with our strategy and this is why we moved to Managed Services. I would say that we are extremely happy.
With B2B Managed Services, we will increase global visibility across our base of B2B transactions with considerably improved monitoring capabilities. The global footprint of OpenText is very important to us as we need to ultimately be able to connect to a customer anywhere in the world.
Contact us to speak with a member of the Business Network team
Resources
Blogs
- Leveraging an ‘Express Lane’ approach to trading partner onboarding
- What’s new in CE 20.4 for OpenText Internet of Things Platform
- You are what you eat, so what are you feeding your VIM?
Infographic
White paper
- IDC Infobrief – Managed Services for Complex Integration
- IDG Survey – Businesses Seek to Take Business Integration to the Next Level