Sterling B2B Integrator - EBICS Banking Server Architecture

Subscription Manager includes the following features:

• Profile Management – For creating and managing bank, partner, and user profiles
• Order Type Configuration – For configuring order types and file formats
• Offer Configuration – For grouping a set of order types and file formats to a list of customers
• User Permission Configuration – For assigning order types and file formats to users
• Import of Subscription Manager Information – For importing configuration details related to bank, partner, user, offer, user permissions, order types, and file formats into the EBICS Banking Server from an external repository
• Export of Subscription Manager Information – For exporting configuration details related to bank, partner, user, offer, user permissions, order types, and file formats into an external repository from the EBICS Banking Server

Key Management includes the following features:

• Self-Signed certificates – For generating and managing self-signed certificates using 2048-key length
• CA certificates – For managing CA certificates
• Key storage – For providing the key stores for the certificates and managing the renewal and expiration of certificates
• Import and Export certificates – For importing and exporting certificates
• Subscriber key validation – For validating user certificate hash values
• Certificate hash value – For supporting the creation of certificate hash value using SHA256

EBICS Server Service includes the following features:

• Request and Response – For handling incoming EBICS requests (through HTTP and HTTPS) according to EBICS protocol specifications, and generating an appropriate response back to the requestor
• Message Flow – For managing the message flow for the initialization and file transfer phases of the EBICS transactions
• Authentication and Authorization – For performing message authentication and user authorization checks

Transaction Manager includes the following features:

• Asynchronous Transaction – For managing the asynchronous transaction flow for upload bank-technical order type (FUL). It manages the authorized order processing flow in collaboration with the Order Data Processor to unpack the order data and deliver the unpacked order data to the destination upload mailbox as defined in the user profile settings.
• Synchronous Transaction – For managing the synchronous transaction flow for upload and download system order and bank-technical order types. It manages the system order processing, report processing (FDL, PSR) and download bank-technical order (FDL) processing flows.
• Segmentation and Recovery – For managing no-replay, segmentation, and error recovery

Order Data Processor is responsible for packing and unpacking order data. It interfaces with Subscription Manager and Transaction Manager to retrieve the relevant information required for packing and unpacking the order data. Its features include:

• Packing – For packing order data such as signing, compression, encryption, and base64 encoding depending on the requirement of the order type
• Unpacking – For unpacking order data such as verification, decompression, decryption, and base64 decoding depending on the requirement of the order type

Sterling File Gateway includes the following features:

• File or File Name Transformations – For mapping input to output file names, system-wide, group, and partner-specific policies, common file processing tasks such as compression and decompression, PGP encryption and decryption, and signing
• File Transfer Visibility – Events are recorded for monitoring and reporting; detailed tracking for input-output file structure processing and dynamic route determination; ability to view and filter data flows for all users
• Broad Communications Protocol Support – FTP, FTP/S, SSH/SFTP, SSH/SCP, and Sterling Connect:Direct are supported upon installation, and additional protocols (such as AS2, AS3, or Odette FTP) can be configured using the extensibility feature
• Partner Interface (myFileGateway) – Web browser-based interface that enables partners to upload and download files, subscribe to notifications about events, manage passwords, search and view file transfer activity, and generate reports about file transfer activity
• Flexible Mailbox Structures – Ability to specify mailbox structures that leverage pattern-matching policies and specify attributes that must be true for all partners or a subset of partners
• Dynamic Routing – Consumer derived at run time, either through mailbox structure, file name, business process-derived consumer name, or map-derived consumer name