Whatever your AS2 strategy and regardless of your company size, GXS can provide you with AS2 services and software to:

• Quickly satisfy AS2 requests from your customers
• Achieve real-time connectivity
• Replace outdated communications with a faster, more dependable, real-time protocol
• Implement AS2 with your entire community down to the smallest trading partners

GXS Portfolio of AS2 Services:

• GXS AS2 Mailbox Services — for speed, standardisation and simplification
• GXS AS2 Outsourcing Services — for customer service, cost avoidance and simplification
• GXS AS2 Contingency Services — for backup, visibility and control

GXS AS2 Mailbox Services
Speed, standardisation, Simplification

For companies that have implemented an AS2 software solution, AS2 Mailbox Services enables you to leverage that software to communicate with GXS Trading Grid® in real time to:

• Send and receive documents. Trading Grid processes and delivers documents to your trading partners via GXS and other third parties, using a variety of connectivity protocols.
• Do business in real time. Receive transmissions from your customers and start processing orders as soon as trading partners send them to you.
• Standardise on a single communications protocol. Eliminate the complexity of managing multiple communications protocols.
• Enjoy the benefits of AS2 and leave community management to GXS. Take advantage of value-added services such as re-queuing, exception alerts, FA Management Services, Community Implementation Services and testing, Community Support Services and more.

GXS AS2 Outsourcing Services
Customer Service, Cost Avoidance, Simplification

AS2 Outsourcing Service enables you to:

• Comply with customer AS2 mandates quickly and easily without adding infrastructure, expense or expertise.
• Avoid the costs of AS2 hardware, software and resources.
• Rely on GXS to implement AS2 on your behalf.
• Avoid the risk of missing out on key business documents due to system outages and security violations.

GXS AS2 Contingency Services
Backup, Visibility, Control

For customers who connect to the Trading Grid via AS2, the AS2 Contingency Service provides an alternative connectivity method (VPN/FTP, FTPS, FTP Push, FTP over Dial PPP) for sending and receiving critical business documents in the event of AS2 or Internet problems. You define the conditions under which the contingency mode is to be automatically invoked and you will be automatically notified of document arrival in your contingency mailbox.