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Which partners are using my Sterling B2Bi?

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Which partners are using my Sterling B2Bi? One of the problems we have in integration is knowing just which partners are using my services. Silly as this sounds it's a real problem. Over time customers come and go, services get replaced, customers  migrate to different services. Service Management API-Management knew this was a problem from the beginning - they have the in-built concept of managing who's using the APIs and you can, reasonably easily, deprecate APIs and track who is using them. However, the likes of IBM Sterling B2Bi do not have that concept. To find out whether a customer is currently  using a sterling hosted service requires some clever database searches which are deep in the bowels of the product. It's not alone in having this problem - many integration products have little partner usage visibility. They all take great care in onboarding customers but lose track of who's still using the services over time. Opsis usage tracking Opsis, Coliance's bu...