While it's true that Trading Partner Desktop seems to be geared more for
smaller environments, so is the price, which still gives it a good 'bang'
for the buck. The real power, however, lies in using Trading Partner Desktop
in concert with Mercator. The Mercator Customer List speaks for itself with
regard to that. Personally, I have a client with over 115 Trading Partners
'doing' a dozen transactions, and experience no problems at all using the
two packages. For less than $10,000 bundled, it's (I think) quite a bargain.
The fact that it's 'any-to-any' is the real bonus. It's amazing how creative
you can get with the right tools. The real indication of it's value,
however, may lie within this ListServ, and the fact that Mercator never gets
mentioned when people vent here about problems.
Chuck Boucos
Willow Farm Solutions
http://www.willowfarmsolutions.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Electronic Data Interchange Issues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mats Jansson
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mercator Trading Partner Desktop
In my humble opinion, the TP products are only acceptable for smaller
organizations, that don't have multi-user needs. It also uses the file
system extensively in place of a database (although an Access database is
used for configs), which becomes a bit of a challenge when you want to have
multiple environments and do frequent migrations. However, as a stand-alone
PC tool for its intended use (small EDI org.), it's not bad, and I
especially liked the Task Lists, and the ability to cascade the task lists.
Mats Jansson
Extricity, Inc.
Simply Powering B2B
-----Original Message-----
From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mercator Trading Partner Desktop
Heard Mercator EDI translators are tops. Does that also apply to th Mercator
Trading Partner Desktop product?
TIA,
Orin Rehorst
Port of Houston Authority
(Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (713)670-2443
Fax: (713)670-2457
TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html>
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