The rapid growth of the Internet presents a huge opportunity for companies to be able to connect more easily and cheaply to both existing and new B2B partners—if they can find ways to share data securely over this very public network. A standard introduced in 2002, AS2 is addressing this need, bringing the traditional benefits of EDI to smaller companies with limited budgets and slashing the costs of online transactions for large companies.

Before you can begin using AS2, you need to make a number of choices—in conjunction with your trading partners—about how you will transact online. This paper takes you through these decisions and shows how to get online with AS2 effectively.