Maximize the Value of Your B2B Integrations with GenAI

Traditional data integration is yesterday’s tech! In today’s era of generative AI (GenAI), B2B integration goes beyond just connecting systems. Enterprises are implementing advanced technology such as GenAI to keep pace with the ever-changing integration landscape and expanding partner networks or risk becoming obsolete. According to The State of SaaS Integrations Report, 84% of businesses acknowledge integrations as either “very important” or a “key requirement” for their customers.¹

While traditional data integration tools are fundamental to connecting different systems and processes, they often come with challenges, from disconnected infrastructure to data discrepancies, making data integration a mammoth challenge! One of the biggest questions for enterprises is, ‘How can they simplify complex integrations and manage substantial data volumes?’ Enterprises are thus seeing a seismic shift towards GenAI, one of the most disruptive technologies today, which transcends streamlining operations and data exchange with its innovative features—scalability, adaptability, and user-friendly interface. This blog explores the various challenges of traditional data integration and offers insights into how GenAI can help enterprises maximize the benefits of B2B integrations.

Limitations of legacy B2B integrations

Below are a few challenges enterprises face when integrating legacy systems into B2B workflows.

Onboarding partners: How can enterprises onboard new partners in a matter of a few days? Onboarding new partners can be complex and time-consuming, involving lengthy, multiple steps that can lead to weeks of delay, impacting customer relationships in the long run. Factors like mapping document types/formats, understanding network communication protocols, and managing the sheer quantity of data can all drastically affect the onboarding time. As business continues, there may be changes in formats which would require recalibration of data pipelines.

Data siloes and disparate systems: How can enterprises have a complete view of their dataset? How can their systems talk to each other? Answering these questions is vital as rich, consistent data helps build a connected partner ecosystem. Amalgamating data from the vast network of partners from disparate systems, enterprise application systems (e.g., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Supply Chain Management (SCM)), and third-party databases makes data integration complex. Besides, operating in isolation from partner systems, can result in inconsistent and inaccurate data, impeding decision-making.

Multiple data formats and types: Businesses use multiple data formats; for example, flat files must be converted into XLS, XML, CSV, etc., to enable integration into ERP or CRM systems and make it ingestible throughout the ecosystem. Standardizing data formats and types is essential as it helps avoid compatibility issues, reduces errors, and makes it easier for different systems to communicate.

Data processing and transparency: How can enterprises achieve a transparent view of the entire ecosystem? Lack of standardization in data processing procedures across different systems impacts transparency, wherein enterprises have no clear visibility of data flow, which is necessary to gain granular insights into business integration, enabling better decision-making.

Security and compliance: How can enterprises reduce the risk of data breaches and non-compliance? Archaic B2B integration solutions and legacy systems lack robust security features and compliance certifications to seamlessly communicate with partners, ensure secure data transfers, and comply with industry standards/regulations.

How can enterprises overcome the challenges of disparate systems and enable uninterrupted data flow? How can enterprises improve connectivity across B2B ecosystems and take control of their workflows? GenAI-powered B2B integration makes this possible!

How is GenAI revolutionizing modern B2B integrations

The shifting data integration landscape calls for modern solutions that harness the power of GenAI, enabling enterprises to gain a holistic view of business operations, achieve a great user experience, and improve collaboration.

Here are a few benefits of implementing GenAI in B2B integration:

In short, enterprises looking to continuously innovate and gain a competitive edge are embracing modern B2B integration solutions that provide a host of benefits and opportunities. One such solution is TradeEdge B2B Integration

Maximize the benefits of B2B integration with TradeEdge

TradeEdge B2B Integration is a single, comprehensive solution for all ecosystem integration needs, from onboarding and managing EDI/API partners to orchestrating business processes and workflows across internal systems. Moreover, it can help enterprises connect and integrate an ecosystem of partners, data sources, and applications swiftly, securely, and at scale. It also bridges the gap between enterprise applications systems and partners, providing a host of benefits, from secure & scalable data exchange ensuring the highest level of security and scalability to integration with any partner, internal systems, or applications regardless of the technological infrastructure.

For instance, the implementation of TradeEdge B2B Integration helped a leading global logistics firm slash customer onboarding time from 3-5 months to just 4 weeks by seamlessly integrating siloed technologies-supported various channels EDI, API, SFTP, etc., and data formats enabling enterprise-wide single platform B2B partner integrations.

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Key benefits of TradeEdge B2B Integration

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