CASE STUDY

B2BGateway Handles High-Volume AS2
with Powerful CData Arc API
High-Volume EDI: Processing 30,000 EDI Transactions/DaySince 1999, B2BGateway has provided a fully managed EDI & API Connectivity solution for
thousands of clients, enabling businesses to connect to major retailers, third party logisticservices and many other partners worldwide. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is the structured
transmission of business data, such as purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notices,
between organizations. B2BGateway integrates with various platforms, including many ERP &accounting platforms, warehouse management systems, inventory & order management systems,
eCommerce platforms and others.
With more than 20 years in the industry, B2BGateway helps customers automate their supply chain
and, in turn, they eliminate manual data entry, improve order accuracy, increase speed & efficiency,
reduce labor costs, and avert costly EDI chargebacks from trading partners to generate ROI fromEDI.
Managing more than 500 customer connections to Amazon alone, B2BGateway processes a vast
30,000 EDI transactions per day via AS2.
But when Amazon changed their AS2 security requirements, B2BGateway would face a problem
that threatened their Amazon connectivity.

The Challenge: Evolving Security Requirements
AS2 is the most commonly used secure data transit protocol for sending and receiving EDI files
and is required for an Amazon EDI integration.

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1CASE STUDYWhen Amazon required modern AES encryption for all AS2 clients and servers, any AS2
communication solution that lacked this requirement could no longer connect to Amazon. And it
just so happened that B2BGateway’s AS2 Amazon customer connections were reliant on an AS2vendor lacking AES encryption.
It was time for a new AS2 solution.

The Solution: Secure, High-Availability, API-Driven AS2

As an EDI & API connectivity solution provider with a network spanning thousands of companies,
B2BGateway required a high level of sophistication in its AS2 solution, in addition to the AES
encryption Amazon required:•A powerful admin API that enabled complete customization•

The capability to handle a high volume of EDI transactions — more than 30k/day•

Total scalability with a load-balanced, high-availability setup•All the baseline AS2 capabilities of an EDI solution, such as MDNs, auto-retry and others•

And of course, affordable scalability

For all these reasons, CData Arc was the optimal choice.
“One of the main requirements was an API, because we had built tools to integrate with ourprevious AS2 software so that our less technical staff could implement AS2 connections,” said Jill
Nowak, Senior Innovations Programmer, B2BGateway. “We needed to connect our tools to yourtools, and the admin API gave us the capability to do so.”
In fact, B2BGateway managed almost all updates through the API, such as adding connections,handling uncommon scenarios, and making changes to connections, URLs, and IDs. But theytake advantage of the user-friendly web interface CData Arc provides, utilizing it each day for easy
monitoring.
In addition, B2BGateway leveraged the flexible deployment options and extensibility CData
Arc offers, using a high-availability, load-balanced setup across multiple servers that ensuresmaximum uptime and high-volume transaction processing.
“We currently have two servers in a load-balanced, high-availability solution, which is fantastic
because we only had one server previously,” Nowak said. “Now, if we want to make updates, we cantake one offline and make updates with the other.”

Results: 600 Connections and Counting

Not only has B2BGateway been able to fully comply with Amazon’s stringent security requirements,

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2they’ve also scaled up their EDI business even more.
To date, B2BGateway has migrated 600 connections from their previous AS2 tool to CData Arc.
Within B2BGateway’s four walls, CData Arc is handling all new AS2 connections, and B2BGateway
has the process of adding & migrating connections down to a science, using an application theybuilt and connected to CData Arc via its admin API.
“We’re always getting new clients who have new trading partners, and Amazon requires testing andproduction connections for each division, such as the US, Canada, and the EU,” Nowak said. “Wereally have to make it as hands off and easy as we can for our less technical staff.”
Now, the average day sees more than 10k transactions over CData Arc, and the peak is muchhigher.
“The busiest day of the year is either Cyber Monday or the day after. The peak was over 45,000transactions* *on the CData Arc servers alone,” Nowak said.
In the next year, B2BGateway plans to migrate another 900 connections to CData Arc and handle
more than 3x the transaction volume per day.

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