You've selected SPS Commerce to seamlessly connect to every partner in your supply chain. In order to maximize operating efficiencies, you need to synchronize key supply chain information between the SPS Commerce Trading Partner Integration Center (TPIC) and your back-office applications. But you have a long list of competing projects and a limited pool of resources. Sound familiar?
"The Cast Iron Integration Appliance enabled us to easily connect our backoffice applications and free up resources to deliver ongoing value rather than focus on middleware."Steve Lucchesi Sr. IT Director, Intuitive Surgical
Cast Iron Systems created a solution designed specifically to simplify SPS integration. The Cast Iron Integration Appliance™ enables you to connect the SPS Commerce TPIC directly with your back office applications in just days and free up IT resources.
Rather than implement complex middleware or write custom code, the Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SPS uses a “configuration, not coding” approach for integration projects. Many suppliers have the need to rapidly exchange information such as purchase orders, PO acknowledgements, and shipping notices with retailers. Just as the TPIC dramatically simplifies this information exchange with your partners, the Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies and automates the integration with your back-office systems.
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SPS enables IT departments to be nimble and responsive to the needs of your business. This Integration Appliance has been specifically engineered for SPS and contains everything needed to integrate your back-office applications in days.
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SPS Commerce solves real-world supply chain problems such as creating purchase orders or sending shipping notices to business partners. Companies in many sectors ranging from hightech, pharmaceuticals and automotive to grocery, consumer goods, and logistics can use the Cast Iron Integration Appliance to seamlessly connect your back-office applications with the SPS Trading Partner Integration Center (TPIC) in real time, to solve the following problems:
Synchronize data in real time between SPS Commerce and other systems:
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The Cast Iron solution provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with SPS Commerce:
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for SPS delivers rapid implementations utilizing the following four steps:
The Integration Appliance contains pre-built connectivity to a wide variety of enterprise applications, databases, flat-files, and on-demand applications. Using a "configuration, not coding" approach for connecting applications not only enables rapid implementations, but also eliminates the need to touch the endpoints. The appliance provides a graphical user interface to transform data between source and target applications, and provides automatic completeness checks. A workflow process can be defined using drag-and-drop logical functions. And, a single web-based console provides complete visibility.
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your application integration projects.
Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.
Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.
The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The Web Management Console also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.
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The iA2000-SPS is the entry-level integration appliance from Cast Iron. It allows customers to get their first integration project between the SPS TPIC and one other named application up and running quickly and cost effectively. This is an attractive alternative to custom code and a good fit for simpler first projects.
Entry-level enterprise class appliance for integrating the SPS TPIC and one other named application for multiple projects. Useful for companies that seek a point-to-point integration solution with an easy upgrade path to a standards-based integration platform. This is an attractive alternative to custom code.
Enterprise class flagship solution solves integration problems between multiple applications. Useful for companies that seek a standards-based platform for their application data migration and integration needs and find software-based solutions too complex.
High Availability solution for mission-critical applications. Comprised of a pair of iA4000-SPS appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability. Useful for companies that need a hot-standby option in addition to high-availability requirements.
