Overview

The application's communication is controlled by a separate service. The Communication Service handles the message identification and routing to and from other application services. The service receives inbound messages from trading partners through a communication provider service. The service sends outbound messages to trading partners through a communication provider service.

The Communication Service supports two types of communication providers:

• A cloud-based Communication Service Provider that is managed by Infor: The Communication Service Provider establishes and manages all the point-to-point connections with trading partners.
• An on-premises communication provider that is managed by the customer: With this communication provider, an On-Premises Communication Agent interfaces with the Communication Service in the Infor cloud. The actual communication with trading partners is managed by the customer.

The on-premises agent uses ION API to communicate with the service. The service uses SQS queues to communicate with the agent that resides in the on-premises infrastructure.

Under Communications, you can view configuration data for a Communication Service Provider and configuration data required to use an On-Premises Communication Agent.