Hybrid B2B: Bring your Business to Business platform to the cloud
Tags: webmethods, b2b, integration
Published: 2021-12-20 08:25:54

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title: Hybrid B2B: Bring your Business to Business platform to the cloud
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date: 2021-12-15 13:01:02 UTC
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# Introduction

With more and more companies moving to the cloud, there is increased demand for integration of SaaS offerings using cloud integration platforms but also doing your B2B - Business to Business, in the cloud as a Service. But most companies do not start in the cloud by scratch, they still have systems running on premises, in a container environment, or in as cloud platform service (PaaS - Platform as a service). Usually the systems running there are not exposed as a Service or even shall not, because of security reasons. You still need to integrate those system with your new world, and this is where hybrid B2B comes into place.

# Hybrid B2B

For Hybrid B2B we combine 3 products of the webMethods stack, each of them bein powerful tools themselves but bringing great synergies when used together.

**[webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) B2B** is our cloud hosted B2B platform build from over 20 years of experience with Trading Networks as one of the leading B2B servers. We will use the capabilities

- Partner Management
- Document Definition & Recognition
- Processing & Routing Rules
- Monitoring

**[webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) Integration** is our cloud hosted integration platform for SaaS integration. For hybrid B2B the most interesting capabilities are

- SaaS Integration
- Mapping, Transformation & Processing
- Integration of on premise services via hybrid integration

**webMethods Microservice Runtime** we will use for

- on premise integration
- Mapping, Transformation & Processing of on premise services and APIs

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# How to do it

I wrote 3 articles in this knowedge base to demonstrate, yow you can do this with webmethods:

- **B2B as a Service: Connect a Partner via [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) B2B** will show you how to connect to a partner via [webMethids.io](http://webMethids.io) B2B, how to onboard the partner, define documents and rules for the exchange and how to finally send and receive business documents.
- **Hybrid Integration: Expose a local service to [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) integration** will demonstrate how to to expose an on premise service to [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) Integration and so have it in an IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service).
- **Hybrid B2B - integrate [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) B2B with [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) Integration** will bring those 2 parts together, by including the exposed on premise service in a cloud hosted integration flow and calling this by the processing rule of [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) B2B.

# The articles

## Hybrid Integration: Expose a local service to [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) integration:
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    <a href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/t/hybrid-integration-expose-a-local-service-to-webmethods-io-integration/253901">Hybrid Integration: Expose a local service to webMethods.io integration</a> <a href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/c/knowledge-base/6"><span style="background-color: #3AB54A;"></span><span style="" data-drop-close="true" title="Browse through our vast Knowledge base of tutorials, articles, code samples, tips and tricks.">Knowledge base</span></a>
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    <a name="introduction-1" href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com#introduction-1"></a>Introduction
With more and more companies moving to the cloud, there is increased demand for integration of SaaS offerings using cloud integration platforms. We call this IPaaS, Integration Platform as a Service. Software AGs offering for IPaaS is <a href="http://webmethods.io">webmethods.io</a> Integration. But most companies do not start in the cloud by scratch, they still have systems running on premises, in a container environment, or in as cloud platform service (PaaS - Platform as a service). Usually the systems running …
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## B2B as a Service: Connect a Partner via [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) B2B
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    <a href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/t/b2b-as-a-service-connect-a-partner-via-webmethods-io-b2b/253904">B2B as a Service: Connect a Partner via webMethods.io B2B</a> <a href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/c/knowledge-base/6"><span style="background-color: #3AB54A;"></span><span style="" data-drop-close="true" title="Browse through our vast Knowledge base of tutorials, articles, code samples, tips and tricks.">Knowledge base</span></a>
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    <a name="introduction-1" href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com#introduction-1"></a>Introduction
As more and more system and platform are moving to the cloud, so is B2B (Business to Business). With <a href="http://webmethods.io">webmethods.io</a> B2B we offer our proven B2B platform as a Service in the cloud, providing capabilities like Partner Management and Onboarding, Document Definition, powerful processing rules and End to End Monitoring. <a href="http://webmethods.io">webmethods.io</a> B2B comes with complete sets of predefined documents for standard like EDI and RosettaNet, but you can also define your own document types. 
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## Hybrid B2B - integrate [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) B2B with [webMethods.io](http://webMethods.io) Integration
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    <a href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/t/hybrid-b2b-integrate-webmethods-io-b2b-with-webmethods-io-integration/253925">Hybrid B2B - integrate webMethods.io B2B with webMethods.io Integration</a> <a href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/c/knowledge-base/6"><span style="background-color: #3AB54A;"></span><span style="" data-drop-close="true" title="Browse through our vast Knowledge base of tutorials, articles, code samples, tips and tricks.">Knowledge base</span></a>
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    <a name="introduction-1" href="https://tech.forums.softwareag.com#introduction-1"></a>Introduction
With more and more companies moving to the cloud, there is increased demand for integration of SaaS offerings using cloud integration platforms but also doing your B2B - Business to Business, in the cloud as a Service. But most companies do not start in the cloud by scratch, they still have systems running on premises, in a container environment, or in as cloud platform service (PaaS - Platform as a service). Usually the systems running there are not exposed as a Service or even …
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