"SPS Completes Transition to Pure Retail and Manufacturing B2B Exchange
Company with Sale of SPS Solutions"
(www.spscommerce.com/news/pr/2000/000417c.shtml)
It looks like someone at SPS Commerce read an article stating 'traditional'
EDI was dead. Over the weekend the website was revamped and all trace of
SPS Solutions has been excised from it. The sale includes the software
division as well as the development, tech support and consulting units that
supported it.
Ironically, as I was pondering the SPS press release I received Michael
Mattias' posting (Retrieve Files from Website Unattended?). A trading
partner arbitrarily decides that all vendors must retrieve their files from
a website. The catch is the new and 'improved' process isn't automated...
yet. On one hand you have a vendor dropping their entire EDI product and on
the other hand a trading partner is saying "You can't connect to us the old
way. Use the spiffy new thing instead." I'm personally in favour of
web-enabling our services, but is this a case of throwing the baby out with
the bathwater? Is it worth the risk of really p*ssing off our existing
customers in our zeal to adopt the new and shiny toys?
John Murray
EDI Analyst
ViTec Inc.
(612) 494-5223 Voice
(612) 494-5253 Fax
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Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to
myself, ''Where the heck is the ceiling?!''
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