Overview The Trans-Pacific Partnership has drawn a tsunami of reactions both for and against it. For sure, it's going to be a game changer in global trade. But how does it concern us? Business transactions are now accompanied by massive data exchanges. It's thus expected for the agreement to tackle the conduct of those data exchanges as well. In this post, we take a look at the agreement's provisions on data transfers and try to understand how they might affect current practices.
Topics: News, JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer
Overview As of this writing, the United States and European Union are in the thick of negotiations for a new Safe Harbor agreement. The result can have a profound impact on thousands of global businesses. In this post, we introduce you to the original Safe Harbor, how it came about, why it's been recently invalidated, and the possible impacts its future holds for a large number of businesses.
Topics: News, JSCAPE MFT
Overview There are two ways of exchanging EDI messages. You can do it directly or you can course it through a third party service provider like a VAN (Value Added Network). While the first option is generally more complicated, it's certainly very doable. In this post, we'll talk about some of the key components you'll have to secure before you can start sending EDI messages directly to your trading partners.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2
Overview The most widely used secure file transfer protocols, SFTP and FTPS, get their security from underlying protocols. SFTP from SSH and FTPS from SSL. Let's compare the two.
Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS
Overview In order to conduct Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions with a trading partner, businesses need a way of transmitting their EDI messages. Today, we take a look at the most widely used EDI transmission types, their main characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages.
Overview: What EDI Is Although already in existence for about 40 years, EDI is not yet as widespread as it ought to be. But recent technological advancements and favorable business conditions are changing that.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2
This post talks about the benefits of setting up automated file synchronization between two servers and how to do it using JSCAPE MFT Server.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers
Overview Most industries in the US use the EDI X12 standard for electronic data interchange. So if you're looking to perform automated business transactions in the US, you have to be familiar with it.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2
Overview When your server antivirus detects malware infection on a recent file upload, what would you like it to do? In our case, we prefer it to email us an alert notification. That way, we wouldn't have to check the logs periodically to see if a virus was found. This post details how we'd achieve that.
Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer