B2B channels are arteries through which all business flows. A typical company with a few dozen suppliers, consumers, and business partners might use hundreds of transaction types, with each transaction including four to eight messages - a daunting constellation of interactions to manage effectively.

To manage the information and infrastructure of trading partners, iWay Software has introduced iWay Trading Manager, a business-to-business (B2B) integration tool that simplifies the creation of trading partner agreements, as part of the iWay SOA Suite. It can also simplify the management of complex environments within an organization. Most importantly, it leverages the existing functionality of iWay Service Manager so that B2B interactions become a natural extension of an organizations SOA efforts.