Case Study: Gassco achieves 24/7 secure, reliable business-critical messaging with Axway B2Bi

Ensuring the flow of business-critical messages with Axway B2Bi

Gassco, the Norwegian state-owned operator that transports about 20% of Europe’s natural gas via an extensive pipeline network, needed a dependable 24/7 B2B integration broker to handle all incoming and outgoing commercial messages. The company’s requirements included secure, high-availability message exchange, a mapping engine and flexible back-end interfaces, better visibility into message flows and errors, scalability for growing message volumes and formats, and stronger security protocols like AS2.

Gassco implemented Axway B2Bi with Axway Sentinel, migrating from its legacy AMTrix system in a coordinated “big bang” switchover and converting hundreds of mappings and millions of historical messages. The deployment delivered higher availability and reliability, real-time dashboarding and improved error tracking, comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting, AS2 and Secure Relay protection, easy API integration with back-end systems, scalable handling of formats and protocols, faster mapping turnaround (about 50% time savings on migrations) and simplified disaster-recovery and inter-site communication.

Gassco

Arne Ferkingstad

B2Bi Production Manager