Electronic trading made easy.

AdvanceFirst Technologies Ltd is a leading provider of electronic trading and integration solutions including EDI, AS/1 & AS/2, to its international client base.

UK based but with around 350 global clients covering 20 countries, AdvanceFirst has been in operation since June 2003 following a management “buy-in” of the Intercept-400 business from Global eXchange Services (formerly GE Information Services).

If your company wants to benefit from the efficiencies and cost savings experienced as a result of total 100% electronic trading with both suppliers and customers, you should be talking AdvanceFirst Technologies.

Software Solutions - Advance Business Collaborator:

The Advance Business Collaborator (ABC) suite of products is designed to satisfy most, if not all, of our clients’ communication, data transformation and systems integration requirements.

The full ABC Suite consists of 5 interoperable software modules.

Advance Communicator (Security, Auditability)
Manage your interface through to your trading community via trading partner profiles. Advance-Communicator will manage multiple messages, partners and communication routes. All you need to do is set up a trading partner profile, and let Advance-Communicator do the rest.

Universal Gateway module - contained within Advance-Communicator can manage document
exchange via numerous routes: -
AS1/ AS2 /AS3
EDI Vans (High speed VPN connection)
FTPS Server (Secure FTP using implicit SSL)
Secure Email
Gateways to closed business communities

Advance Secure Email Server
If you are already trading some documents electronically, how about a simple, secure, low cost, easy to implement, solution that gives you an ability to communicate with 100% of your trading community electronically by using our tailored personalised Secure Email system. For example, you can now issue 100% of your invoices and/or remittance advice notes (to name but two documents) electronically and securely for minimal cost and effort. Yet in doing so, secure the massive savings in process and paperwork that electronic trading can generate.

Advance i400 (previously known as Intercept-400)
Advance-i400 provides a complete electronic commerce solution, combining an application
mapper, EDI translator and communications capability within a single integrated product.
Advance-i400 is a global product, providing access to multiple international Value Added Network (VAN) services and supporting multiple international EDI standards. Developed specifically for the i-Series (AS/400) environment, Advance-i400 provides a seamless integrated business solution for i-Series (AS/400) users, protecting existing hardware and software investments...more

Advance Enterprise Server
Advance Enterprise Server is the powerful server variant of the Advance Suite designed to
operate in a multiple user and multiple trading partner environment where throughput is an
essential business requirement . It incorporates Advance-Integrator and Advance-
Communicator to provide a powerful and resilient multi-user, B2B gateway. Scalability is an inherent characteristic of Enterprise Server supporting a comprehensive suite of communications protocols and document standards or customised messages to enable businesses to take full advantage of Electronic Trading both inter-company and intra-company.

Secure, fast and fully auditable communications will enable full reach to all trading partners
anywhere whether via the Internet, VAN, Private Networks and Electronic Trading Networks..
Fully configurable to optimally support multiple processes; the transformation and integration
of electronic messages and documents through extensible APIs to provide seamless
interfaces to business applications; Enterprise Server will fulfil its role as your B2B Corporate
Gateway with distinction.

Advance Integrator (Enterprise Application Integration)
Data Transformation - When important business documents either enter or leave the business
they have to be transformed into or out of the trading partner’s document formats (sometimes
multiple formats).

Advance-Integrators’ powerful transformation engine can manage multiple conversions of a single document, integrating each one of them with other applications, before continuing with the normal document processing.  This same capability can be used to integrate different applications within the same business.