Hi Shawn,
There is a fundamental difference between the Seeburger XI EDI adapter and the
XI adapter in GIS.
The Seeburger adapter uses XI as the central repository for all workflow
design, mapping repository, configuration, runtime monitoring etc. It extends
XI to allow it to support EDI transactions. If you are looking to use XI as
your enterprise process engine the adapters fit this strategy directly.
The GIS adapter is to allow you to connect GIS to XI so GIS can do EDI
transactions and pass the information to XI.
In this case you need to develop workflow and mapping in GIS as well as XI as
GIS does the EDI translation to SAP XML and passes it to XI which then
translates it to ABAP for R3 or does XI process based routing and handling with
your other SAP applications.
SAP sells and supports the Seeburger XI EDI adapters - One vendor, one
contract, one central integration application, one UI and tool set, one support
call.
GIS remains a 3rd party application where you use XI as the integration layer
to the SAP environment. Admittedly in very high volume EDI environments this
configuration might be right for you. It takes some load off XI. Seeburger has
our core B2B / EDI Gateway BIS and have customers where a stand alone EDI
environment does have value.
Do you need a stand alone EDI environment, 2 translation engines, 2 workflow
and mapping solutions for your EDI transactions?
Trivia- Seeburger BIS was named back in the Gentran days, GIS as a name
appeared well after our gateway product was in the market. I always wondered
who was the Sterling marketing guy who decided on GIS as a name. Was it an
attempt to confuse or just a lack of market knowledge?
Best Regards,
James Hatcher
www.seeburger.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Aker
To: EDL LIST
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:22 AM
Subject: [EDI-L] SAP XI Adapter in GIS
Does anyone know if the SAP XI Adapter in GIS is a good replacement for the
Seeburger adapter?
It's pretty new.. and I haven't been able to get a straight answer from
Sterling.
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Regards,
Shawn Aker
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