Architecture and components

The Business Integration Express for Item Sync system uses a central infrastructure (InterChange Server Express) and modular components in a hub-and-spoke design.

In this design, business-process logic resides in collaborations at the hub; data is exchanged between the hub and the spokes in the form of business objects. Connectors, supply connectivity to applications (or to web servers or other programmatic entities) at the spokes.

The components of the system include:

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