Through efficient and effective fileand transfer management, EDI Guardstreamlines the daily control andcorrection of routine messagingreducing the workload for IT andcustomer service departments. Thesystem is fully customisable and isdesigned to handle all your emails,EDI messages and customernotifications. Your IT and customersservice divisions are given a “cockpit”view over all transactions and arealerted to any irregularity that requireoperator intervention.

Full controlYour entire data exchange process isfully controlled by EDI Guard whichguarantees delivery while loggingeach and every transaction.

The inbuilt management centre givesadministrators complete control overtheir servers and file jobs as well asvisibility of workloads and dataexchange rules for all servers.

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Advanced and efficient file management and transfer

EDI Guard handles your file management and the automatic transfer of your files by email (POP3, SMTP), FTP or point-to-point communication based on user defined, flexible rules. It is scalable for LAN, WAN and server farms andsuitable for any electronic file exchange in a secure environment between unlimited business partners.

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EDI Guard scans and analyses mail contents

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File handlingRelevant file handling functions are combinedto deliver fast and reliable transfers over socket-based architecture. EDI Guard will analyse allPOP3 incoming emails, including attachments,and distribute them according to user definedpre-set rules. For example, specified emailattachments may be moved into a selectedfolder with a confirmation email delivered backto the sender detailing all successful, failed andirregular transactions. EDI Guard becomes yourfile administrator and frees up real people to domore important, customer facing work.

Through SMTP, specific emails can be sentautomatically to customers, authorities andbusiness partners based on Softship’ssophisticated Event Management and StatusNotification modules.

ArchivingEDI Guard generates unique file names whenmessages with repetitive names are received.This eliminates the difficulty of archiving andretrieval as these files are automaticallyrenamed and filed using your own pre-set rules. Business Benefits

• Resource saving due to automatic file transfers• Efficiency gains from automatic alerts to transmission failures

or irregularities• User-defined control rules allow all types of data handling to

be undertaken• No additional hardware required

Key Features• Automatic monitoring and logging of all messaging jobs

• User-defined alerts for failed and irregular message

transactions

• FTP download from pre-defined servers

• POP3 email downloads from mailbox to local storage

folder

• Attachment capture and archiving

• Auto-deletion and archiving of files

• PGP encryption/decryption

• SFTP for secure file transfers

Automatic File Manager (EDI Guard)

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