Integrate 2BA with Alumio: Sync validated product data
Product data that's scattered across different systems is more than just a logistical issue — it’s a business risk. The innacuracies in product data this leads to can make or break daily operations, especially when it comes to the wholesale or installation sectors. From quoting jobs to placing orders and ensuring compliance, every decision hinges on having the most current specs, prices, and documentation. Yet too often, teams are stuck manually digging through portals, downloading PDFs, or relying on outdated spreadsheets. It's slow, error-prone, and nearly impossible to scale.
By offering a single source of truth that centralizes validated product information from thousands of suppliers, 2BA helps businesses reduce inconsistencies, avoid costly mistakes, and streamline everything from procurement to planning. It ensures the silos that disrupt your supply chain get replaced by unified, up-to-date product information that flows where it's needed — when it's needed.
What is 2BA?
Based in the Netherlands, 2BA is a leading neutral data pool for product and trade information in the installation and construction sectors, providing a centralized platform that manufacturers, wholesalers, and installers can use to exchange validated, up-to-date product data.
Founded and owned by industry stakeholders themselves, 2BA plays a key role in supporting the entire supply chain—from sourcing electronic catalogs to feeding ERP, calculation, and design systems. With thousands of suppliers publishing their catalogs to 2BA, it has become one of the industry’s single sources of truth for spec sheets, pricing, and compliance documents. By standardizing data according to industry norms, 2BA ensures that everyone—from suppliers to end-users—works with the same reliable information. Whether it’s commercial and technical product details, digital assets like drawings and manuals, or logistic data, 2BA keeps it all organized and accessible.
However, retrieving or updating this product and trade data manually across all your internal systems is tedious and may lead to errors and inconsistencies. As such, integrating 2BA into your IT landscape helps automate these process and ensures that the right data always reaches the right systems and people.
In order to build these integrations in a swift and scalable manner, modern businesses are turning to integration platforms that can reliably connect 2BA to the rest of their IT landscape. For instance, as digital transformation experts and official 2BA partners, Innovadis is a company that leverages the Alumio iPaaS to simplify how they build their 2BA integrations.
Maximizing 2BA’s potential with the Alumio iPaaS
While 2BA provides a solid foundation for product data, integrating it with your systems can be tricky without the right tools. The Alumio iPaaS provides a flexible API-driven, low-code integration solution that helps swiftly connect 2BA to any internal systems like ERP, PIM, CAD, and other essential systems. It provides a cloud-native, user-friendly interface that can be used to automate, transform, and orchestrate data exchange, without the need for custom code or manual data entry.
By integrating 2BA with internal systems using Alumio, businesses can automate the entire process of exchanging product and trade data—ensuring accuracy, consistency, and speed across all systems. Whether you're looking to pull in product information or publish it to 2BA, Alumio enables both use cases with ease:
1. Automating the retrieval of product data from 2BA
For wholesalers, installers, and processors who need product data available in their internal tools, the Alumio iPaaS can be used to automate the retrieval of:
- Commercial and technical product details
- Digital assets like drawings, manuals, and product images
- Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) data, such as carbon footprint
- Logistic and regulatory compliance data
2. Automate the publishing of data to 2BA
For suppliers and manufacturers who need to share their latest product information with 2BA, Alumio can be used to automatically publish data such as:
- Articles, prices, and inventory levels
- Technical documentation and visuals
- Product attributes aligned with 2BA standards
The key benefits of integrating 2BA with Alumio:
Using the Alumio iPaaS to integrate and streamline data exchange between 2BA and your entire ecosystem, results in faster operations, fewer errors, and better-informed teams. Here are the key benefits:
- Partner support: Accessing Alumio’s integration partner ecosystem, including 2BA integration specialists like Innovadis, helps businesses accelerate setup, navigate data standardization complexities, and avoid common pitfalls—without relying on internal dev teams.
- Up-to-date product information: By automating your integration with 2BA via Alumio, you ensure your systems are always fed the most current data from 2BA. This ensures that your team is working with accurate information, reducing the risk of errors and improving decision-making.
- No more manual work: By automating the data exchange between 2BA and your internal system, Alumio frees up your team’s time for more strategic activities.
- Improved collaboration across departments: When every team, from procurement to sales to design, has access to the same accurate product data in the tools they already use, collaboration becomes smoother, and silos begin to dissolve.
- Faster time-to-market for product updates: With real-time or scheduled syncing that the Alumio iPaaS enables, new product releases, pricing updates, or compliance changes flow directly into your system, reducing delays and accelerating your go-to-market process.
- Compliant and standardized data exchange: 2BA enforces data standards and Alumio helps you map and transform your internal data to match those standards, ensuring clean, structured, and compliant data exchange.
Streamline your 2BA data exchange with Alumio
In a landscape where margins are tight and timelines tighter, the ability to act on trusted product data—immediately and without friction—is no longer optional. 2BA lays the groundwork by centralizing validated information from thousands of suppliers. But the real value is unlocked when that data becomes embedded in the daily operations of your business. With the Alumio integration platform, businesses can operationalize 2BA data across ERP, PIM, CAD, and calculation systems, without the overhead of manual entry or the need to custom code solutions. Integrating it via Alumio, turns 2BA from a reference point into an active driver of efficiency, enabling more accurate planning, faster updates, and tighter compliance across every function that depends on product data.
For sectors like construction, installation, wholesale, and manufacturing, where project success depends on precision and timing, the impact of integrating 2BA via Alumio can be transformative. From streamlined procurement and accurate quotations to faster design iterations and fewer compliance issues, embedding 2BA data into operational systems via Alumio creates a competitive advantage. It ensures that every department works from the same reliable source of truth, enabling more agile, data-driven execution across the board.
