With millions of transactions continuously flowing behind the scenes, Loren Data employs many methods of making sure the system is functioning at all nines. One key tool for ECGrid is the instrumentation of our code, allowing us to follow key statistics on a real-time basis. By learning trends and the relationships of various parameters, we can predictively detect and prevent problems, …
2018 ECGrid Developer’s Program Report: 4Psite
Participants in the ECGridOS Developer’s Program have the opportunity to showcase their ECGridOS integrations. The first in this series is 4Psite, an innovative cloud-based order management system provider. Since 2005, 4Psite has provided cloud-based operations management capabilities and transparent, integrated EDI services. By integrating ECGrid’s with EGridOS, with interconnections to all VANs and integrated AS2 connectivity, we can provide our customers with very responsive …
The EDI Guy – Redux
This is a great flash from the past. About 6 years ago we put together a fun little piece about ECGridOS that became known as The EDI Guy. Check it out!
The New Era of EDI – Post 3/4/2014
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 …
Canonical EDI: Standardizing the Standard for the 99%
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 …
ECGridOS Going Mainstream
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 …
I Built That!
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 …
Loren Data Is Where the Developers Hang Out
It has been a busy time here, working on all sorts of new features for ECGridOS; and all the hard work is starting to pay off. ECGridOS is where all the next generation EDI developers are coming to hang out! While the debate continues regarding VANs and their relevance in the market place (ec-bp.org: Do We NEed VANs?), there is …