At 02:45 PM 8/8/2005 -0400, Steve Lee wrote <snipped>: > Here's an example without certification. Supplier and Customer want > to do AS2. Customer exchanges information and tries to connect but > fails. With today's complex networks. Unkown to Supplier it's a > firewall issue. Customer repeatedly calls Supplier and explains to > Supplier they can't connect. Customer has to explain to Supplier that > the issue on on the Supplier side. > > With Certification Firewall issues are solved before Customer is > approached.
I beg to differ. The Drummond Group certification applies to a specific version of an ASx product. What you are describing is a situation where the problem is with an individual supplier's environment, specifically his firewall configuration. I have seen this problem occur when using a "certified" AS2 product. > Scenario three is :) is Customer collects certification money and > hires an EDI Helpdesk army to hand hold new interfaces like the > Automotives direct new Vendors to their IT Helpdesks. They're going to have to have a helpdesk anyway, or something like it. The only thing that the Drummond Group buys you is a level of assurance that the ASx software out of the box works correctly. It doesn't certify that an individual user has installed and configured it correctly. Mike >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------- >Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting >www.rawlinsecconsulting.com >Using XML with Legacy Business Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003) >www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321154940 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hln3r0q/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005582:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123536531/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
