The MXC solution is a suite of software modules that deliver extensive functionality. The following is a high-level summary of its key features.

Document/Message Exchange Engine

The key features of the message exchange engine are:

• Real-time and batch (scheduled) message handling for receiving and sending
• Message logging
• Message validation
• Authentication and Encryption/Decryption
• Any-to-any message content mapping
• Any-to-any format translation
• Envelope to payload and payload to envelope mapping
• Any-to-any protocol conversion
• Any-to-any standard transformation (e.g. ebXML to RosettaNet)
• Message routing and conditional logic
• Reliable messaging
• Error handling
• Report data logging

The message exchange engine supports:

• Formats of XML, Edifact, X.12, flat files (positional and separated), SAP iDocs, Text
• DTD’s and XSD’s for automatic definition of payloads and envelopes
• Protocols of HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, SMTP, X.400, AS2
• Web Services
• Message Standards ebXML, RosettaNet and allows custom envelope definition
• Digital Certificates
• Authentication and Encryption
• Translation language - XSLT

Online Design, Development, Testing and Management Environment

The online web interface includes a comprehensive development environment for the remote configuration and management of system-to-system messages. The interface enables the objects and their parameters to be defined, tested and used in production. It includes the ability to:

• View messages IN and OUT and their content
• View message flow summaries
• View daily, weekly and monthly summaries
• View error descriptions
• View summary reports
• Configure envelopes, payloads, applications, messages, schedules, reports
• Define security and reliable messaging requirements
• Define message-to-message mappings
• Configure message and transport protocols
• Define business logic and routing
• Test logic and message mappings
• Simulate and test message sending and receipt
• Set-up and administer users and their access privilege levels
• Import and export configuration data

Online Customer Registration, Billing and Account Management Functions

Customers can self-serve through the online web interface without requiring any involvement from the service provider. This includes:

• Customer Registration
• Customer data collection including billing preferences
• Support for mixed and multiple pricing arrangements, flat fees, per message, volume
• Online current and historical accounts
• Support for multiple currencies
• Support for online credit card payments
• Automatic email reminders
• Customer cancellation

Business Process Engine

The message exchange engine is essentially stateless so the business process engine is designed to handle long-running processes with regard to time and events that are relevant to system-to-system messaging. The key features of the business transaction engine includes:

• Monitoring of messages within a process
• Maintaining the state of activities within a process
• On event initiation or ending of an activity
• On time initiation or ending of an activity
• Multi-message mapping into a single message

Business Process Designer and Monitor

The business process designer and monitor provides a comprehensive web interface for the remote configuration, monitoring and management of processes involving the exchange of messages. This includes:

• Drag-and-drop process drawing
• BPMN standard drawing symbols
• Configuration of process activities
• Multi-loop activities 
• Assignment of messages within activities
• Conditional gates and expressions
• Time and event based conditions
• Multiple source message mapping
• Process state monitoring
• Activity and message monitoring

Training Modules and Online Help System

The self-paced online training modules include:

• XML
• DTD’s (Document Type Definitions)
• XSD’s (XML schemas)
• Namespaces
• XPath
• XSLT - XML Translation Language

This is combined with an extensive online Help system that includes:

• Step-by-step procedures for using every web page
• Detailed descriptions of topics for the configuration, testing, monitoring and administration

Service Monitoring Modules

There are built-in functions to support service levels and to assist in the day-to-day operation of the solution. These include:-

• Automatic alarming via SMS and email of system and application level errors
• Automatic monitoring of the health of MXC modules running on separate servers
• Automatic and manual failover of MXC database
• Comprehensive system logs to assist in diagnosing problems