EDI Solution Analysis

Solution Analysis is used to determine the appropriate governing architecture of the your EDI solution.

With over 20 years of hands-on EDI experience utilizing a variety of EDI applications, we have the ability to recognize which EDI solution will be appropriate for your unique objectives. The Solution Analysis includes business processes, organizational impact, technical capabilities, and costs associated with each candidate solution. Capabilities are prioritized, and a transitional plan is generated for implementing the leading candidate solution.

In keeping with a commitment to quality, innovation, and customer value, many industry leaders have deployed and rely heavily upon EDI technology. A vision of leveraging EDI to exchange a variety of business documents with the trading partner community can lead to significant cost savings, enhanced accuracy, and ease of doing business. A very high percentage of business conducted via the automated electronic exchange of business transactions results in significant savings and more efficient use of resources. Trading partner communities include customers, vendors, financial institutions, freight carriers/forwarders, dealers, logistics services, facilities, governments, etc.

Substantial experience in a wide variety of industries, while utilizing many middleware solutions, enables us to provide guidance related to the appropriate path forward for our clients.

We are the premiere provider of services in the EDI space because we have significant experience with many vendors’ B2B application suites. We offer custom solutions that are tailored to your needs rather than “one size fits all” solutions offered by many other B2B consulting firms. As such, we have spearheaded significant, business changing implementations for our clients while employing products offered by various vendors including Sterling Commerce, IBM, OpenText™, Liaison, and others. Each vendor’s applications offer distinct solutions to your B2B issues, at varying costs of ownership and levels of effort. Let us help you determine which solution is appropriate for you and your unique business needs.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI):

“The transfer of structured data, by agreed message standards, from one computer system to another without manual intervention.”

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI):

“The use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.”

Managed File Transfer (MFT):

“Software solutions that facilitate the secure transfer of data, in flight and a test, from one computer to another through a network (e.g., the Internet).”