Montova™ platform

The Montova™ platform is a unique and flexible solution that enables companies to design and optimize their communication flows in a reliable and secure way. Using it, companies can exchange information, data and business flows with their partners, regardless of size, format, location or technology, and this for a flat annual fee. The interoperability and independence of the Montova™ platform offers companies substantial time and cost savings.

Combining Internet’s low cost, broad connectivity with a highly secure and reliable infrastructure, the Montova™ platform provides straight-through processing of any message to any partner. Thanks to a single point of control over the business process, companies can build strong relationships with their partners.

The Montova™ platform offers a wide range of services, from back-office integration to e-invoicing, from data-mapping to message validation.

All communication and services are monitored end-to-end by the Montova™ support team. With the Montova™ Gateway, this monitoring can start in the network of the sender and can reach into the network of the receiver.

Montova in a nutshell

The Montova™ Gateway is an appliance which provides a fast, secure and reliable connection with external partners’ systems. Offfering a single connection interface, it supports a wide range of standard protocols and data formats. Messages can be sent to other Montova™ Gateways or other networks and protocols through the Interconnect Server or the myMontova™ website. 

Montova™ Integrator is a software tool for integrating applications, allowing data to be exchanged and transformed between two applications. Companies can integrate the most important technologies and modified applications, independently of provider or platform, yet build on existing knowledge and systems. 

The myMontova™ portal is the web interface that allows you to get the full benefits of the platform even with smaller business partners. It is also the perfect foundation to host part of your business logic and make it available in ASP mode.

Interconnection to other VAN's or data carriers is built right into the platform, with support for standard protocols like FTP, HTTP, X.400 and AS2.

Benefits

  • 100% delivery guarantee using a 2-phase commit mode
  • No maintenance required thanks to the ‘appliance’ concept
  • End-to-end integration as the result of conversion to and from all possible platforms
  • No cost per transaction for a favorable Return on Investment

Challenges

There are five main challenges a company must face to find a suitable solution for enabling business applications to communicate seamlessly with the back-end systems of customers, suppliers and partners via a single central communication platform:

  • INTEGRATION
    A central "message broker" that is fully integrated with your own back-end system.
     
  • TRANSLATION
    A system that handles conversions from your own format to every possible other format.
     
  • DELIVERY
    100% guarantee that the information will reach the recipient safely.
     
  • PRESENTATION
    Give your business partners the capability of viewing and consulting information.
     
  • REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
    Be certain your e-invoicing procedure is compliant with Directive EC/2001/115.