Business Continuity Planning for EDI Messaging to Customs and 1-Stop

Over the last twenty years and more particularly since Australian Customs rolled out CMR, the critical nature of communications within the industry has increased to the point that business simply stops if you lose your email or internet connection. This has lead to the requirement for a business continuity plan, BCP, being more critical than ever. At the simplest level you should ask yourself questions like;

• What would you do if your email server failed?
• What would you do if your Internet connection was down for a week?

In response to a number of requests from industry, Tradegate has developed a product called “Managed Mail” that isolates your business critical email and hosts it on Tradegate’s highly reliable CommercePlus messaging platform. This ensures that while you may lose your general internet and email, you continue communicating to Customs, 1-Stop and other vital partners.

Managed Mail consists of two key elements;

Dedicated email service for your mission critical applications such as Australian Customs ICS and 1-Stop.

This product offers guaranteed email performance that is independent of your internet provider, IP address and the impacts of SPAM on mail servers both internally and externally hosted.

Access to Broad Band Wireless Internet service in the event of prolonged network outages

Managed Mail also offers access to a wireless router (using the mobile 3G network) to offer emergency internet access to ensure that your business stays operational.

For more details on Tradegate’s low cost Business Continuity Planning offer go to Managed Mail or call Tradegate on 1300 552 393.