posted on 11/29/2011 1:09:16 PM
SEEBURGER releases its SEE Link software, designed to bring more security to file transfer among business partners and serve as an alternative to services such as Dropbox and YouSendIt.
The discipline of business process management has long valued the efficient transfer of files, and with its most recent announcement, BPM purveyor SEEBURGER has upped the ante on some ad hoc file transfer services that it says fall short of business needs.
SEEBURGER Secure Link, dubbed SEE Link for short, is the latest component of the BPM company’s Managed File Transfer suite. SEE Link is a client-side application that a company can deploy on its own computers as well as those of its supply chain partners, service providers, and others in its business ecosystem. SEE Link can also facilitate file transfers with trading partners that do not have EDI or another B2B network established, the company said in a statement.
The software works with SEEBURGER’s SEE MFT server to “automate the exchange of master data, customer lists, payroll information, quarterly financial reports, medical records, supply chain transactions, and other structured and non-structured files between systems,” the company said.
SEE Link is positioned as a more secure alternative to file-sharing services such as Dropbox and YouSendIt, both of which offer basic capabilities for free. SEEBURGER’s technology includes business process management tools such as policy enforcement, data integrity checking, and a centralized audit trail, in addition to data encryption. To facilitate the technology, the vendor created a peer-to-peer networking protocol that allows data to be exchanged directly between clients, without routing through the MFT Server. (Other functions within SEE Link depend on the MFT Server.) The Secure Link Management Protocol also works to block unauthorized transfers, according to the company.
SEE Link can automatically provision the computers on which it is deployed, using pre-populated configuration information. The application also features an endpoint translation engine, so that data transmitted in a particular ERP system’s format, for instance, can be converted as appropriate after being decrypted and decompressed. Files transfers are managed via a browser-based interface that SEEBURGER said requires no IT experience.