eBiss is a system ¹⁾ for exchanging data between applications inside and outside their own enterprise. It supports the integration of different WWS applications through its comprehensible real-time data transfer and can be used for highly flexible applications in IT departments as well as in predefined integrated processes. With eBiss, there is a separation between IT staff and users, that is, Users can easily manage their own processes without the need for IT staff.

The following diagram illustrates the typical processes ²⁾ in eBiss in a simplified way.

Note: This is described in detail in the HowTo Set up a data link with conversion.

In order to be able to respond as flexibly as possible to customer requirements and still not have to create individual mappings for each customer, we at Pranke GmbH are pursuing with eBiss the strategy with the so-called two-stage transformation³⁾. This provides that the INHOUSE interface is ideally always operated or queried with only one mapping⁴⁾ and individual adaptations are only made in partner specific mappings from EDIFACT⁵⁾ to the middleware or from middleware to EDIFACT⁶⁾ if necessary.

• Outgoing processing
  • from INHOUSE to MiddleWare preferably only one mapping(1 to 1)!⁷⁾
  • from MiddleWare to EDIFACT⁸⁾ any number of mappings(1 to N)⁹⁾
• Incoming processing
  • from EDIFACT¹⁰⁾ to MiddleWare any number of mappings(N to 1)¹¹⁾
  • from MiddleWare to INHOUSE preferably only one mapping(1 to 1)¹²⁾

The philosophy of eBiss usually recommends the use of MiddleWare¹³⁾ Abstraction Layers. This means that all incoming and outgoing messages pass through two mappings connected in series. This is shown in the above diagram by the transformers. It can be understood in detail as shown in the following sequence diagram.