Embedded EDI Communications
Drop A VAN into your Code
Presented by:Todd Gould, President
Loren Data Corp.
Sector Research by:
Alan Wilensky, Analyst
bizQuirk

Overview
Loren Data Corp. is a 23 yr. veteran of connected e-commerce
Operates ECGrid®- Since 2001, a trusted provider of interconnect
management services between VANs, e-commerce hosts, and
major supply chain hubs.
ECGrid® - Provides internetwork management and messaging
reliability service enhancements to 65 VANs and e-commerce
networks.
A Total of 80 major interconnects, and 14,000 unique trading
partners rely on ECGrid for traffic routing services.
ECGrid®= Routes to 600,000 Trading Partner QID’s
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Loren Data Corp Introduces:
ECGridOS - the programmer’s API gateway to ECGrid®.
With ECGridOS, any program, SOA / ESB/ SAAS / PAAS, can control every aspect of
EDI communications.
Every Aspect

API Now !
https://ecgridos.net/v2.1/prod/ecgridosv0201.asmx
Get Developer Credentials: developers@ecgrid.com
✓ ECGridOS EDI API
✓ WSDL / SOAP
✓ Superior Integration
✓ 78 Functions
✓ More robust than FTP / AS2
✓ Ideal for Hosted Platforms
✓ Ready Now

Better than FTP & AS2, a code level, drop-in VAN
78 API functions to control every aspect of EDI communications
function, creating the potential for new and innovative services.
Manage mailbox and user accounts, trading partners, networks,
interconnects, upload /download messages, tracking with
message manifests, and detailed reports.
Bring full administrative control to the desktop (and back-end) for
configuration, test, and production. Make EDI communications
integral, rather than relying on external systems.
ECGridOS encompasses the benefits of both hubs and VANs, with
routes to over 600,000 partner QID’s, 80 Major commerce
networks, and integrated trading partner lookup via the API.
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Old Way / New Way
Improve the End User Process with ECGridOS
VAN Limitations: ECGridOS:
➡ No Programmable interfaces ➡ Powerful, Programmable, Configurable, and Integrated
➡ Code-Level control of All Administrative Functions
➡ Manual Administration via
arcane process (external web ➡ Code Level User Account and Mailbox Administration
page)
➡ Code Level Handling of Errors and Delivery Exceptions
➡ Each VAN Uses Different
Conventions. ➡ Network Owner Level of Admin Authority
➡ Status Reporting Relies on ➡ Reduced complexity with one interface
External Web Page.
➡ Send, Receive, Track, Report End-to-End
➡ No Customization,
Integration, or interoperability. ➡Years of Network Ops Experience, delivered as a configurable
and customizable EDI communications tools suite
➡ Limited or No Automation. ➡Build EDI into your products - don’t bolt it on!
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Hot Button VANs ECGridOS API Notes
Integrates via any IDE Provides a Unified
Integration and Very Limited, Uses External Logical Program
or Web Services
Programability Web Interfaces Interface for
consumer
Customization
Admin Functions (Users, Almost always external web True Integrated Admin Use ECGridOS to define
Mailboxes, Trading page or phone support, forms, functions. Role-Based delivery of admin
Partners etc. access. functions to your specs
API based Expert Fast response to
By Request to Netops, via System. Rapid interconnect requests
Interconnect Management
email, forms, phone, Interconnects.Rich via API, most return
Control and Status Data ‘Completed’ status
End-to-End tracking via ECGrid Live Data.
Tracking Limited to Success
detailed manifests, Status, Traffic . Use
Traffic Management or failure, arcane data
message status at each for alarms, alerts, and
retrieval
waypoint Data Feeds
Extensive Directory
Closed Routing, Opaque Rules, Total Control over
Routing Transparency service, lookups,and
no Lookup routes and interconnects
listings.
Rich reporting in any
format, rapid
Reporting after the fact, Entire API Class for
compilation and
Reports and Stats fixed formats or inflexible Reports, Data, Message
integration of live
source data Stats, create your own
statistics with capital
line of business systems

Embedding EDI Communications Services
What’s in the WSDL?
WSDL= A Description of API Services. Not for light reading ...it is for Integrated Development
Environments or Integration Platforms to Import functions. API Families:
System Access & User Management
APIs for control of login/logout and other basic system access functionality.
Network/Mailbox Management
APIs to create and maintain Networks and Mailboxes
Trading Partner ID Management
Add, edit, delete and manage Trading Partners assigned to a specific Network/Mailbox.
Interconnect Management
Create and manage Interconnects between IDs throughout the ECGrid Network.
Carbon Copy Management
APIs to manage Carbon Copy interchanges for Trading Partner pairs.
Parcel Management
APIs to send and receive mailbags, interchanges and other payloads over the ECGrid Network.
Reports
Various system reports.
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Case: Adding A QID to ECGrid &
Establishing an Interconnect to a VAN-based Trading Partner
Host Program Calling and Return Param Example
Session API Function Params Returns
Login() LoginName -Password SessionID string (GUID)
TPAdd() (Self)1 SessionID (GUID) User Defined QID Description ECGridID
TPSearch()2 SessionID (GUID) QID ECGridIDInfo Collection3
InterconnectAdd() SessionID (GUID) ECGridID Source/Dest Reference InterconnectID
Logout() SessionID (GUID)
Notes:
1 - Not required if owner’s QID has been previously mapped to ECGridID
2 - Example assumes QID exists in ECGridID routing table
3 - A TPSearch() that returns a (null) result is handled with a simple routine using NetworkList()(to find VAN
NetworkID)and TPAddVAN()to acquire ECGridID
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ECGridOS Network Advantages
➡ 23 Years of Network Operations Experience Carefully Distilled into 78 powerful
functions.
➡ Callable by any code asset, IDE, Web Services Consumer, ESB, SOA
➡ Confers the power of a VAN upon your application. Create users, mailboxes,
interconnects.
➡ Loren Data Corp Network Operations is the e-commerce industry’s most
experienced network operations team.
➡ Trusted by Electronic Commerce Service providers to manage and migrate
QID’s, interconnects, and perform certificate maintenance.
ECGridOS is the only API to offer complete control of trading partners, ubiquitous
routing to any QID, single program attachments via SOAP, and more to come for
certificate management and canonical commerce documents.
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Contact Loren Data Corp for Developer Accounts
Interested in Getting Started? Questions about applications, partnerships, co-ventures,
industry trends and topics:
Get a Developer Account:
Contact Alan W.
developers@ecgrid.com
partners@ld.com
(412) 353-9269
API Docs on Line
Loren Data Corp
ECGridOS.net
Call:
ECGridOS.com Website
(813) 426-3355
(800) 745-6736
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