What is a Connection? (Data Movement)

Connections are named and specific instances of a connector to and from an application, technology device or business partner. Sample connector categories are:

• Technology Protocols including AS2, FTP, and others. Each unique set of authentication credentials used for a particular protocol is a separate connection.
• Application Connectors like NetSuite, Shopify, and others.
• Infrastructure Connectors like Amazon S3, Kafka, and others.

What is a Transaction? (Data Transformation)

• In Private Cloud Edition, Transactions are:
  • For EDI document types like X12, messages will be associated to a ST-SE segment
  • For EDI document types like EDIFACT, messages will be associated to a UNH-UNT segment
  • For EDI document types like TRADACOMS, messages will be associated to a MHD/MTR segment
• Other Non-EDI document types like flat files, XML and others -
  • Will be treated as a ‘Business Transaction’ (eg. Order)
  • Will be typically associated with a single header record instead of the multiple detailed records