Companies constantly face the problem of, on the one hand, having to communicate and to be in touch with various organisations, and, on the other hand, that of having to become sufficiently detached from the competitors, exposing no restricted information. Be it manufacturer, distributor, supplier or customer, each of them has to interact more or less frequently with each other. There have been many attempts in the past to make this process as efficient as possible. A number of systems have been employed, including documentation systems, EDI and others, which provided a variety of results but never a fully satisfactory one.

An end user, employed by a company "A", interacts with a computer system via a standard web browser.

1. Interactions, such as enquiries, search, purchase order, placing an invoice, generate an XML-report that is stored in the cache in the waiting queue.

2. A transaction server searches regularly for "A" waiting queues by reports.

3. As soon as the report is looked through, the server interprets the business logic, which is contained in the report. This logic explains to the server what to do with the report. Let us imagine that the contents of the report are the enquiry about the actual reduced price lists of the company "B".

4. The server interprets to send the request of the company "A" to the waiting queue of the company "B" via such a transmission standard like Microsoft Biztalk.

5. The company "B" server conducts the search in the "B" waiting queues and processes them in the way indicated in the logic contained in them.

6. This logic instructs the server of the company "B" to generate a report, which contains the information requested by "A" and sends back this report to the reception waiting queue of the company "A".

7. In turn, in the company "A" the report is recognized and processed automatically.

8. In this case the server is instructed to generate the requested information, i.e. reduced price lists, and offer it to the employee.

9. The employee can see the reduced price lists in his standard browser and possibly further process the information

Using this transactions-based framework,

• customers, suppliers, distributors, manufacturers can transact via

• secure, competitive in price, open, efficient network

Therefore, after numerous vain efforts aimed at attaining the goal with EDI and other systems, this goal is finally achieved:

Productivity, ROI, expenses cuts and genuine results.