Trading Grid Messaging Service enables companies throughout the world to exchange business documents in a fast, secure and reliable fashion. Benefits include:

• Shields you from complexity— Mediates the technology and process differences between trading partners, shielding the user from complexity and delivering value to 100 percent of the trading community.
• Supports EDI standards, XML and proprietary formats—Combines established and proven EDI capabilities and traditional private network connectivity with Internet technology and support for XML to deliver a complete electronic trading environment.
• Provides visibility and process controls—Intelligence tools such as Exception Alerts and Acknowledgement Management Services enable you to react immediately to unforeseen challenges, reduce personnel time spent tracking and troubleshooting, and benefit from lower costs and higher revenues that result from more efficient processes.

Overview
Trading Grid Messaging Service is the global, Internet-based transaction management service that enables companies to trade business documents electronically in a secure, fast and reliable fashion. Trading Grid Messaging Service enables businesses to exchange documents using both the latest XML standards as well as traditional EDI document standards. Trading Grid Messaging Service can be accessed via the Internet or the GXS private network, enabling companies to maximize the use of today’s latest B2B Internet commerce transactions.

Features

• Single Global Platform—Provides event-driven processing and consistent functionality worldwide to enable standardization of your processes with trading partners globally and respond to changing market conditions in real time.
• Any-to-Any Document Exchange—Exchanges documents regardless of format, whether standards-based or proprietary including EDI. These include XML (RosettaNet, ebXML), EDI (ANSI x12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS) and proprietary formats (spreadsheets, SAP IDOCS).
• High Performance—Processes documents and makes them available to your trading partners in seconds. Furthermore, for your trading partners who use real-time protocols such as AS2 or FTP Push, delivers documents to your partners instead of awaiting their pickup.
• Reliability and Security—Leverage our robust backup and recovery capabilities coupled with ongoing monitoring and reporting that enable us to immediately address any issues and ensure that your documents continue to flow. Secure access, provided via the Internet or the private GXS Network, is available only to validated users.
• 24x7 Customer Service—Benefit from our experienced customer-service staff, who are equipped with automated tools to ensure that your calls are answered quickly and efficiently on a 24x7 basis.
• Automated Process Management—Automate steps of your B2B electronic commerce processes with rules-based services. Examples include: Exception Alerts to notify you via email or text message of the occurrence of special circumstances, such as document arrival or processing errors; Acknowledgment Services that manage and monitor the performance of your trading community, ensuring that your partners acknowledge your documents within your specified timeframe; Automated Document Routing when you need to copy multiple people or applications on documents you send or receive.