Review of the Business Process

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Electronic Commerce Server Concepts
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Softshare ECS An enterprise-level, hands-off,
back office electronic commerce server product.
It Differs from Softshare Vista because it

• Is designed to run hands-off

• Runs as a collection of Win NT services

• Supports MANY communications protocols

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Softshare ECS Supported input/output protocols

• File System

• File Transport Protocol (FTP)

• Hyper-text Transport Protocol (HTTP)

• Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)

• Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP 3)

• Printing (Output Only)

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ECS Components
ECS Services
ECS User Interface
Event Alerter
Certificate Viewer
File System Scanner
Data Administrator
EDI Document Viewer
Output Manager
Electronic Commerce Server
Log Viewer
POP 3 Client
Management Console
SMTP Server
Report Viewer
Microsoft SQL 7.0
System Manager
Trading Partner Manager
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Management Console The Configuration Center for
ECS

• Setting Up Configuration Information for ECS

• Scheduling and Running Data Translation Maps

• Creating/Managing Data Channels (Input)

• Creating/Managing Event Rules

• Creating/Managing Output Queues (Output)

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Management Console Interface and Menu Functions
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Log Viewer View Logs of ECS/Delta Activity

• Confirm batch submissions

• Verify stopping and starting of ECS services

• View map execution results

• Verify configuration setting updates

• Identify error situations in order to take
  corrective action

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Log Viewer Interface and Menu Functions
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Data Administrator Administer ECS repository data

• View batch data submitted via the Data
  Channels

• View data upon which Event Rules are applied

• Verify date and time of batch submissions

• Re-stage data for comparison against
  ECS event rules

• View delivery information and Re-stage a
  delivery

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Data Administrator Interface and Menu Functions
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Report Viewer Create reports based on ECS activity

• Documents Sent

• Documents Received

• Accepted Documents

• Rejected Documents

• Unacknowledged Documents

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Report Viewer Interface and Menu Functions