Data consumption is a service available upon subscription on Cofinity-X marketplace to all partners registered to Cofinity-X network. By subscribing to the service, you are able to retrieve the legal entity (BPNL), site (BPNS) and address (BPNA) information of the other registered partners.
In order for Cofinity-X network to fully benefit from the Business Partner Explorer added value, make sure you upload your address data as described in Data provisioning.
Once you have fully registered, log in into Cofinity-X Portal with your user credentials. On the homepage, select “Service Marketplace” under the option “Marketplace”, you can find both on the navigation bar located at the top corner of the main page or under the user menu on the top right corner of the page.
On the “Service Marketplace” page, search for the BP Explorer by using the search box and click on “Details”, located at the bottom right corner of the service card.
You can find the “Subscribe” button below the service name.
Navigate to the "Service Subscription" page. Then click on “Confirm” to request the subscription to Data consumption or click on “Cancel” to abort the process.
By subscribing to this service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to the terms of use! Your subscription constitutes your acceptance of all applicable terms, policies, and conditions governing the use of this service. Make sure that you take the time to read the terms of use, which you can find under “Relevant Documents” on the service page.
After your subscription, the business partner information (BPNL, BPNA, and BPNS) of your partners is retrieved via the endpoints configured in your Eclipse DataSpace Connector (EDC) when implementing a Catena-X use case.