News and views from the EDI industry insider
From time to time I like to make a point of publicly recognizing people and companies when they exhibit excellence in what they do. Today’s kudos go to Don Nguyen in the EDI Admin/Support department at Fry’s Electronics. Two months ago Don approached us with a problem sending back AS2 Asynch MDNs to our SuperHUB AS2 system. Frequently, our system …
Since I entered in the EDI industry in 1996, I have not seen a more promising time to be in this market. The GXS era was an unfortunate disruption to the natural growth of a networked market; however, under the new management of OpenText opportunity is back. Now that we avoided the apocalypse, it is time for us, the leaders …
OpenText has agreed to continue exchanging data with Loren Data and has rescinded the disconnection. The ability to set up new partnerships will resume immediately and data will continue to flow uninterrupted. Link to OpenText Notice Industry and Customer First – Always Regards, Todd Gould President & CEO
This month we have launched two new products: SuperHUBSM and VendorConnect. Both have been driven by customer demand and are directly intended to stabilize the shifting sand that is today’s EDI messaging environment. SuperHUB has been in development for some time and is a natural extension of ECGrid, enhanced for major EDI Hub end-users. Not just another VAN, SuperHUB is …
Learn more aboutAS2 in the Cloud This last year the EDI community has shown an increasing interest in AS2. But what exactly is AS2? This is the third in a multipart series to examine AS2 and what it means going forward to the EDI industry. If you want all the historical and technical information on AS2, then I suggest you …
Mike Dietzen at the Brady Corporation started a discussion on LinkedIn regarding a new way to think about EDI. In the comment thread it moved in to a discussion of Canonical EDI, a concept that is near and dear to my heart. Can we as professionals agree to a new way of doing EDI? I would like to shift the …
There is always a tipping point where the game changes. ECGridOS is now there. After years of grunt work, visioning, coding, evangelizing, ECGridOS has risen above the noise. Recently, there have been contracting opportunities popping up for ECGridOS Developers and future ECGridOS Developers are seeking us out to see how they can jump on the next IT wave. Here is a …
One of the most common search terms we have hitting our web site is “How do I become a VAN?” Great question. There is no off-the-shelf VAN software. Each and every VAN has built their own system, designed to handle standard (X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOM, etc.) and non-standard EDI data. And for the sake of this argument I will also include …
Lots of updates and changes for the greatly enhanced ECGrid)S v3.0. You can retrieve the WSDL at https://ecgridos.net/v3.0/beta/ecgridos.asmx. Lots of enhancements, optimizations and new functionalities have been added. Especially interesting are: AS2 and Certificate related functions to support our new integrated AS2 hosting system. Persistent storage of data attached to various ECGridOS objects. Pricelists, Contracts and Invoicing functions (still in progress) Please follow …
Learn more aboutAS2 in the Cloud This last year the EDI community has shown a substantial increasing interest in AS2. But what exactly is AS2? This is the second in a multipart series to examine AS2 and what it means going forward to the EDI industry. If you want all the historical and technical information on AS2, then I suggest …
