Welcome to our Blog!

Filter articles about specific technologies or keywords

Categories: AS2 MFT s3 S3 EDI REST B2B walmart SFTP FTP FDA X12

Tags: AS2 B2B as2 as4 s3 EDI File Transfer walmart Shipping webhook B2B Trading X12 MFT FDA ESG Azure

Understanding AS2: A Protocol for Secure Data Exchange

Understanding AS2: A Protocol for Secure Data Exchange

In the world of digital communication, ensuring the security and reliability of data exchange is paramount. One protocol that has emerged as a robust solution for secure data interchange is...

Obtaining an AS2 Certificate: A Comprehensive Guide

Obtaining an AS2 Certificate: A Comprehensive Guide

In the realm of secure data exchange between businesses, AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) certificates play a pivotal role. These digital certificates are essential for authenticating and encrypting data transmitted over...

Setting Up an AS2 Connection

Setting Up an AS2 Connection

In today’s interconnected business landscape, setting up secure data exchange channels is crucial for smooth operations and maintaining trust with partners. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) provides a standardized method for...

AS2 Certificate Expiration for Walmart EDI connection

AS2 Certificate Expiration for Walmart EDI connection

If you have received an email similar to the following from GEM@wal-mart.com requesting you to update the AS2 certificates used to connect to the Walmart RetailLink EDI, this post will...

Leveraging Azure File Shares for Seamless Deployment and Secure Data Access in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Leveraging Azure File Shares for Seamless Deployment and Secure Data Access in the Pharmaceutical Industry

A pharmaceutical company compiles a set of documents as evidence of compliance to regulations and submits this documentation to a health authority. These regulations influence the drug manufacturing processes, the...

Deploying Pharmaceutical Applications on Azure - Secure Access to Private File Shares

Deploying Pharmaceutical Applications on Azure - Secure Access to Private File Shares

The pharmaceutical industry operates in a highly regulated environment, where security, compliance, and efficiency are of utmost importance. Cloud computing platforms like Microsoft Azure offer robust solutions for deploying and...

The Power of EDI in Logistics

The Power of EDI in Logistics

In today’s fast-paced transportation and logistics sector, effective communication and data exchange are vital. EDI is at the forefront of this digital transition. By replacing traditional paper-based processes with digital...

Top AS2 and EDI Best Practices for Smooth Operations

Top AS2 and EDI Best Practices for Smooth Operations

AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) play crucial roles in ensuring smooth operations for businesses. AS2 is a widely used protocol for secure data transmission over the...

AS2 and EDI Security; Ensuring Safe Data Transmission

AS2 and EDI Security; Ensuring Safe Data Transmission

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a standardized technique for exchanging structured and computer-readable business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, and advanced shipment notices between organizations. AS2, which stands for...

How Does EDI Contribute to the Transportation and Logistics Industry?

How Does EDI Contribute to the Transportation and Logistics Industry?

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI has evolved as the preferred channel for logistics and transportation companies, enabling them to enhance operational efficiency, gain supply chain visibility, and strengthen customer relationships within...

In what way does EDI have a direct impact on reducing your carbon footprint?

In what way does EDI have a direct impact on reducing your carbon footprint?

Modern supply chains have long been implementing environmentally conscious measures, aiming to decrease the distances components travel prior to reaching customers and progressively adopting eco-friendly products and packaging. Today, businesses...

Overcoming 5 Common EDI Implementation Issues

Overcoming 5 Common EDI Implementation Issues

There are certain issues to be aware of during the EDI implementation for an organization. In this article we discuss how to overcome 5 of the most common such issues....

Integrating regulatory submissions with the FDA ESG

Integrating regulatory submissions with the FDA ESG

If you operate in the healthcare domain within US jurisdictions, the US Food and Drug Authority (FDA) naturally becomes a vital part of your compliance process. Being able to perform...

EDI to JSON or XML conversion with EDI Generator

EDI to JSON or XML conversion with EDI Generator

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is a widely used standard across many domains such as retail, logistics, pharmaceuticals, etc. for exchanging business-to-business data. Some of the large organizations such as Walmart...

Benefits of managed file transfer

Benefits of managed file transfer

What is Managed File Transfer? To meet compliance requirements, managed file transfer (MFT) allows enterprises to securely exchange electronic information between systems. These data flows might be either internal or...

How to choose the right AS2 solutions for your EDI needs

How to choose the right AS2 solutions for your EDI needs

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the electronic exchange of business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, and more with trading partners. These can be suppliers, customers, carriers, third-party...

What is AS2 and how does it work

What is AS2 and how does it work

What is AS2? AS2 also known as Applicability Statement 2 is a secure file transfer protocol that enables secure and reliable exchange of electronic data, between organizations over the internet....

6 Benefits of EDI in the logistics industry

6 Benefits of EDI in the logistics industry

Every day, supply chain stakeholders in the logistics sector exchange a large amount of information via piles of paper. So, having information in a better format that can be stored...

Why do small businesses need EDI?

Why do small businesses need EDI?

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the computer-to-computer exchange of standardized business documents between companies. EDI has been around for decades and is widely used in a variety of industries such...

What are the advantages of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

What are the advantages of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Digital transformation takes a great part in improving business processes in B2B organizations. As a part of digitalization, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) creates value addition in organizations in various industries...

What is the FDA ESG?

What is the FDA ESG?

Making regulatory submissions to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a highly standardized process. In 2006, FDA established their own dedicated recipient entity, the Electronic Submissions Gateway (ESG), to...

Making regulatory submissions to FDA with AS2

Making regulatory submissions to FDA with AS2

Making regulatory submissions to FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) includes a number of steps, and may require some custom implementations to ensure the correct structure and content of submission...

How AS2 Gateway stimulates the B2B file transfer process

How AS2 Gateway stimulates the B2B file transfer process

Confidentiality, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of data are the paramount concerns in a business matter. Managed File Transfer(MFT) is a reliably used solution for high-level EDI and all types...

Must know facts on AS2

Must know facts on AS2

What is AS2? For those who want to know “What is AS2?”, AS2 is an abbreviation for Applicability Statement 2 - a secure B2B transfer protocol that allows businesses to...

Why EDI over AS2 - instead of FTP?

Why EDI over AS2 - instead of FTP?

Electronic Data Interchange or EDI is a virtual exchange of business documents or any other data using electronic formats between trading parties. In general, this exchange of documents or data...

How to send AS2 messages with an EDI trading platform

How to send AS2 messages with an EDI trading platform

When the business involves lots of confidential data, security will be a major concern for all enterprises. Therefore, going for an EDI trading platform with a secure file transfer protocol...

Types of EDI

EDI or Electronic Data Interchange is a computer-to-computer communication mechanism for exchanging business documents such as purchase orders, and invoices in a standard electronic format, as an alternative to traditional...

MFT Gateway - Exchange Messages With SFTP

MFT Gateway - Exchange Messages With SFTP

MFT Gateway, world’s first Serverless Managed File Transfer software implemented on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by Aayu Technologies LLC introduces, our latest message exchanging protocol for you. With the latest...

Troubleshooting AS2 EDI transfer issues

Troubleshooting AS2 EDI transfer issues

Modern tools make it quite easy to get your EDI file transferred to your partner over secure protocols like AS2, but sometimes the same cannot be said about troubleshooting the...

Set up B2B Messaging on AS2 Gateway: The Complete Guide

Set up B2B Messaging on AS2 Gateway: The Complete Guide

This is the process that you would usually follow in AS2 Gateway (or any other AS2/EDI/MFT application) to exchange messages with your trading partners.

EDI X12 Data Types

EDI X12 Data Types

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a standard format used to electronically interchange business information such as Purchase Orders, Shipping Noticed and Invoices between companies. Currently, there are 2 main EDI...

Why retailers should prefer AS2 over emails

Why retailers should prefer AS2 over emails

When you are in the retail domain, either as a supplier or a buyer, you will need to exchange different documents such as purchase orders, shipping notices and invoices with...

EDI in B2B e-commerce

EDI in B2B e-commerce

Digital transformation is rapidly emerging and due to COVID-19, it’s rising exponentially. Because of the fast-changing market conditions and demands, the potential to create new revenue streams and the ability...

Managed File Transfer vs File Transfer Protocol

Managed File Transfer vs File Transfer Protocol

For any enterprise, sharing information from one party to another is a core business process. Users have been sharing information both sensitive and non-sensitive between many networks around the world,...

What is AS2 Restart and how it works

What is AS2 Restart and how it works

AS2 file transfer protocol defined by RFC 4130 is a secure file exchange protocol, widely used for business-to business data exchange. Its key features such as end-to-end encryption, digital signatures...

What is MFT?

What is MFT?

Businesses and companies are moving towards digitalization rapidly in the current global markets. With these rapid digital transformations, the need for adapting to exponentially growing streams of data has become...

How to log into the MFT Gateway SFTP server from WinSCP SFTP Client

How to log into the MFT Gateway SFTP server from WinSCP SFTP Client

As we already discussed how we can log into MFT Gateway SFTP server from FileZilla SFTP client, here we’ll discuss how we can log into the MFT Gateway SFTP server...

How to log into the MFT Gateway SFTP server from FileZilla SFTP Client

How to log into the MFT Gateway SFTP server from FileZilla SFTP Client

SFTP is one of the 4 ways you can integrate your MFT Gateway account with other internal enterprise systems to send or receive files over AS2 protocol. When connecting to...

4 ways to integrate MFT Gateway AS2 with business workflows

4 ways to integrate MFT Gateway AS2 with business workflows

Learn how to integrate your existing systems with MFT Gateway via Webhook, REST API, AWS S3 or SFTP to automate the file exchange over AS2 protocol

Configuring EDI connections with Walmart

Configuring EDI connections with Walmart

Introduction In our first article, we looked at the steps required to set up an AS2 connection with Walmart. In this article, we look at the steps required to get...

SSCC-18 number generation for Shipping Containers

SSCC-18 number generation for Shipping Containers

What is SSCC-18? The Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) is a widely accepted numbering scheme to uniquely identify logistic/shipping units such as pallets. An SSCC-18 number consists of 18 digits...

AS2 Connection setup for Walmart RetailLink GEM

AS2 Connection setup for Walmart RetailLink GEM

The Walmart RetailLink application and its Global Enterprise Mailbox (GEM) configuration can be a challenge, especially if you are configuring an AS2 connection with Walmart for the first time. While...

EDI in Supply Chain & Logistics

EDI in Supply Chain & Logistics

EDI has become the driving force of business communications between trading partners. All kinds of stakeholders in a supply chain; buyers, suppliers, retailers, distributors, 3rd party logistics can benefit from...

What is EDI; A Guide to Electronic Data Interchange

What is EDI; A Guide to Electronic Data Interchange

EDI or Electronic Data Interchange is a communication technology of exchanging business documents like invoices, purchase orders, sales orders and advanced shipping notices, in a standard electronic format, as an...

File Transfer, MFT and Beyond: The Story of AS2

File Transfer, MFT and Beyond: The Story of AS2

This is a work of fiction. The incidents portrayed herein may have taken place under different settings, in a different order, or even not taken place at all; however, it...

Benefits of a Cloud-based (SaaS) MFT

Benefits of a Cloud-based (SaaS) MFT

If you are looking for an alternative to your ad-hoc file transfer solution like FTP, HTTP and SMTP, to improve the productivity and efficiency of your file transmissions and to...

Avoid Mistakes When sharing Business Documents

Avoid Mistakes When sharing Business Documents

Mistakes are inevitable at times, regardless of all technological advancements. While we expect technology to increase productivity, it follows with the basic requirement to find new ways of avoiding mistakes....

Making Sense of AS2 Connection Configurations

Making Sense of AS2 Connection Configurations

Most of the client issues we encounter on AS2 Gateway, the online AS2/EDI exchange, are due to bad partner/station configurations - either on AS2 Gateway itself, or on the remote...

MFT in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

MFT in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Logistics is a wide area of business including supply chain management, distribution, production, and material movement that require movement of both tangible products and data. These data consist of documents...

REST API to Automate Message Workflows

REST API to Automate Message Workflows

MFT Gateway REST API is released! With the latest update 2.1.0, now you can automate your message workflows easily using REST API without depending on the MFT Gateway web console....

MFT for Business Flow Improvements

MFT for Business Flow Improvements

Information is one of the most valuable assets in every business. The profit or loss of the business depends mainly on the information, consumer and partner management process. Therefore, all...

Integrating SFTP for EDI messages over AS2

Integrating SFTP for EDI messages over AS2

When sending/receiving a large number of documents over AS2, it’s better to use an integration mechanism like SFTP. SFTP can easily support bulk file transfers as well as large file...

AS2 Gateway Webhooks - Get Notified Instantly for your AS2 Messages

AS2 Gateway Webhooks - Get Notified Instantly for your AS2 Messages

Buckle up, folks; it’s time to take your AS2/EDI integrations to the next level, with webhook support on AS2 Gateway!

Writing a Webhook

Writing a Webhook

Webhook (HTTP) Request Handlers A webhook request handler is a program, web-app or piece of code that can accept, read and understand an incoming HTTP request; containing HTTP headers and...

Amazon S3 integration with AS2 Protocol

Amazon S3 integration with AS2 Protocol

Why does your business need AS2 Protocol? Enables transactions with large enterprises that require AS2. Several large enterprises like Walmart, Amazon, Target, and Lowe’s now require trading partners to transact...

Why Businesses Need MFT

Why Businesses Need MFT

Regardless of the industry, any business requires a secure and reliable exchange of information with business partners. This is where most large corporations go ahead with managed file transfer (MFT)...

Integrating AWS S3 for EDI messages over AS2

Integrating AWS S3 for EDI messages over AS2

MFT Gateway has made the exchange of your EDI files simple and easy. One-click integration with AWS S3 and you will be provided with a pair of AWS credentials. Using...

How to Send AS2 messages in Cloud-Based MFT Gateway

How to Send AS2 messages in Cloud-Based MFT Gateway

When it comes to transferring lots of confidential data, the value of computerized trading and automated, secure trade document exchange is a major concern for all B2B enterprises. Along with...

Why you NEED MFT - Managed File Transfer in 2020

Why you NEED MFT - Managed File Transfer in 2020

Or, what the “Managed” part of MFT is all about Not to sound opportunistic, but the whole COVID-19 situation is leading online businesses to boom like never before (source: BBC)....

B2B EDI Exchange with AS2 Gateway REST API

B2B EDI Exchange with AS2 Gateway REST API

What is AS2? All right. You have set up your local stations and trading partners on AS2 Gateway B2B Trading Platform - and successfully sent and received messages. Today, let’s...

Who has access to your documents?

Who has access to your documents?

The last thing you need is your letter to your loved one to be read by the postman on the way. Only because you need it to be delivered and...

We are a US based company with Sri Lankan ingenuity majored in Cloud and Serverless technology based product engineering.

Our solutions power small businesses using our hosted SaaS solutions , to enterprises that run our software on-cloud and on-premise.