Inc. The Contivo eService TM , the cornerstone of Contivo's product offerings, automates the process of creating, mapping, linking, and synchronizing links between trading partners to dynamically develop and evolve their B2B trading relationships for activities such as procurement, inventory management, and payments. This knowledge is aggregated and retained in the Contivo Business Content Repository for maintenance and reusability by all members of the trading community. At the core of the Contivo eService is the Universal Data Model that stores the properties and attributes of business objects for universal translation between standard interfaces supported by the eService. The Contivo eService B2B Thesaurus contains industry standard and trading community specific synonyms and rules to drive the Auto-mapping process. Synonyms are a universal data model for mapping of similar data between different business objects having different structures.
Rules are transformation commands between target and source data elements of business objects.
The Contivo Analyst provides the business analyst with the ability to Auto-map for synonyms and rules between source and target business objects. The Contivo Analyst The Contivo Analyst graphically represents successfully applied synonyms and rules, mappings that require manual intervention, and manual mappings that have been resolved in different colors for ease of use. The Contivo Analyst can complete Auto-mapping with minimal intervention by the business analyst. New rules, synonyms or new applications for existing rules can be added to the Contivo B2B Thesaurus expanding its knowledge of trading partner business mapping intelligence for sharing and reuse. The Contivo eService Business Content Repository provides a library of industry standard maps and interfaces to subscribing companies and their trading partners.