Today, Information Exchanges leverage the Internet to
connect all of the business partners involved in one or more
related processes, and should provide a software framework
that handles the routing and processing of the associated
transactions between the different business entities.
FireStar’s approach is centered on 3 architectural
foundations that produce the benefits required.
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distributed architecture benefits an Information Exchange by:
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Enabling local customization by each user of the solution
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Allowing easily scaling by processing transactions locally
at each user site
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Enhancing privacy, as data associated with each transaction
is stored locally at participant’s site rather than
centrally, and is protected by sophisticated PKI signing and
encryption
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peer-to-peer architecture benefits an Information Exchange by:
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Each user has the ability to exchange transactions directly with any other users
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Privacy is enhanced, because only the parties involved in a transaction are
aware of it
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service oriented architecture (SOA) benefits an Information Exchange by:
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Adding new shared services as required by the community
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Provides central services for administering and managing the Information Exchange
