The Business Information Dispatcher (BID)
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The BID software was designed to apply business-rules to your eMail traffic. A business-rule can be as easy as rewriting a header, to route the eMail to an other recipient, up to setup a persistent workflow to realize a business-case. The BID software support all aspects of business-automation like:
- receiving eMails from your already available Mail-Transport-Agent
- analyzing eMails to extract business-information
- joining and creation of new business-information
- creating of customized layouts to represent your corporate-identity
Emails are common used to transport business relevant information from a sender to a receiver. Sources of business information are business-applications, monitoring-applications or just the normal user asking for or providing data. The goal of the BID tool was to automate the dispatching of this information and to join a business-case with a responsible receiver. A receiver can be a human being or just an other BID server customized for a special business-case. The BID server was designed as generic server using a plugin to serve a specific business-rule.
The main features of the BID server are:
- link into the local Mail-Transport-Agent (UNIX)
- work as a single stand-alone application or as a peer-to-peer network cluster available on every host in your domain
- receive emails for local or alias accounts
- rewrite email headers and join a business case with a responsible receiver
- parse email bodies to do further processing
- including a local database to setup and perform a persistent workflow
- including a service to create HTML emails based on your corporate identity using a template
- including a service to manage access from your secure internal network to the Internet
- including a service to detect email spam and reduce network load
- including a service to access to your local email2sms gateway
- including a service to setup and maintain an email2sms mobile phone book
- including a service to monitor your local MTA, BID server and host
- including a quality framework to test and verify your business-rules
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