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Is Integration Becoming an Asset for the Cloud?

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Integration may be shifting from a liability to a non-issue and possibly even an asset for SaaS and cloud computing.

Two things make me think this. First, it seems some companies are moving their EDI (electronic data interchange) services to the cloud, which means they can finally eliminate those expensive, hosted value-added networks.

EDI is a pre-Internet standard for electronic commerce, commonly used by banks and ATMs. We're talking old-school, legacy technology dating back to the '60s and '70s here.

 

Peachtree by Sage + EDI Integration

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This topic was added to our calendar when a reader sent us an e-mail which reads: “Hi, we have a homemade application and our invoice info is generated thru a sql query and saved as a CSV file.  How can I import the CSV file in Peachtree…?”  I don’t have any techies to research this or figure out ‘how to’ anymore so I went into my rolodex and started calling and e-mailing people questions about Peachtree and how to get data into or out of it.

 

RFID - Something Retailers are Looking at...

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Retail spending is still not what it could be…  Yes, consumers are spending, but taking more time to make decisions and shopping more to find better deals.  This means Retailers have to work harder to a.) Attract/keep customers and b.) Maintain margin.  There are many ways this could be achieved: including RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).  For many in the industry, maintaining margin means finding efficiencies everywhere and anywhere.  Attracting new and existing customers is another issue – and very much related depending on the process efficiencies Retailers look to for relief. 

 
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The inherent nature of today’s supply chain requires a rethinking of the supporting technical architecture 

In a whitepaper entitled ‘One-to-Many – Establishing a common platform to address multiple supply chain applications’  Trevor Miles writes about multi-enterprise supply chains.

Outsourcing has created new challenges. One of these is visibility and retaining accountability when companies do not have access to the right information. As Trevor states in his paper, much of the data required to make informed decisions is residing in Excel spreadsheets. 

Companies that do not outsource are also faced with distributed supply chains where inventory may be managed by a 3rd party or product is manufactured in different locations of the organization without the ability to synchronize demand and supply across multiple systems.

 

When e-commerce worlds collide

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Todd Gould, an experienced EDI architect, has created a very simple and effective web services API for global EDI transit. ECGridOS offers global EDI for use by any developer, large or small. The Loren Data ECGrid connects to thousands of trading partners via a global mesh of commerce partner networks, and is now in production release.

This didn’t happen overnight. His company has been a trusted wholesale EDI messaging and routing broker for more than a decade. Don’t expect any less from Tood Gould, an expert on global EDI connectivity, and the President / CTO of Loren Data Corp.

ECGridOS is Todd’s grand architecture, his magnum opus; ECGridOS Web Services are here.

 
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