PIDX b2box^®

The PIDX b2box^® Connectivity Solution is specialized stand-alone offering for the Oil and Gas industry. This solution is for organizations that want to directly exchange business documents with multiple trading partners without connecting via a Private Community or Open Community powered by the Amalto e-Business Cloud. The PIDX b2box is a full-fledged B2B integration server, that can be deployed behind your organization’s firewalls as an On-Premise solution or hosted as an On-Demand solution.

It allows deep and on the-fly integration with your back-end system(s) and can handle moderate to high volume of transactions using various formats and protocol.

Attributes

RNIF and AS2 connectors are pre-packaged with the b2box to connect your organization Trading Partner and perform PIDX documents exchange.

• Operations use a rich web user interface or by calling the available set of exposed web services.
• Complete queuing system of inbound and outbound documents and the ability to reprocess documents at any time.
• Monitoring is provided by automated e-mail notifications and access via the rich user interface.
• Monitoring, application support, reprocessing and incident resolution is remotely performed by the Amalto Support Team, shielding your organization teams from interactions with the PIDX b2box.
• Easily scalable for on-board additional Trading Partners.
• Direct telephone and e-mail support is provided.

Best Fit For

• Organizations in the Oil and Gas industry with a moderate to high volume of transactions (from 50 transactions per month).
• Want to connect directly with Trading Partners without having to join a Private or Open Community.
• Organizations that transact with Trading Partners of varying technical capabilities; calling for a wide variety of options (portal, portal+, downloadable software) to be available for these partners to connect.
• Need deep back-end, on the fly integration.
• Choose the PIDX b2box On-Premise if you want to implement the solution behind the firewall or deploy it in On-Demand mode, benefiting from the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of on a hosted solution.

Pricing PIDX b2box (On-Premise or On-Demand)

Setup fee: covers the service provided by Amalto to set up the b2box.

Starting from 16,000 USD for Invoices processing with one external Trading Partner. Additional setup fee per new Trading Partner and per new business document exchanged with partner. 

Subscription fee: covers license rental, proactive application support and monitoring. Yearly subscription fee depends on the number of connected Trading Partners, number of business document types (Invoices, POs,...). Unlimited number of Transactions.

Supported Protocols And Formats

Protocols: AS2, RNIF, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP 
Formats: PIDX (as a primary business document library, but other formats are supported in order to match specific requirements, like ExxonMobil requesting cXML...)

Use this interactive matrix to choose the Connectivity Solutions that best fits your needs, depending upon the volume of transactions, depth of integration, specificity of Business Documents Formats and Custom Business Rules and your preference to host your solution On-Premise or On-Demand.