You're right I confused the Software Certification and SPS Commerce scenarios. Certifying the Software not the Trading Partner, which is another ball of wax.
Whoever started spreadheaded this Software Certification program anyway? Regards, -Steve Mike Rawlins wrote: >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 >> >> > > > > >. >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 > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hmqhrik/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005582:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123619341/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/
