On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, plainsrao wrote:
> We are in the process of evaluating a software to manage Trading
> Partners and also provide communication capabilities(EDI-INT). We are
> currently a Gentran shop and most of our communication is done via VAN.
>
> What we found was that most of the EDI Communication Softwares like
> GIS, Inovis, etc are priced based on the Trading Partner count. Also,
> the trading partner fee is counted while calculating the yearly
> support fee.
>
> I feel that this is ridiculous, because we continue pay money to these
> people, even if we do not call them for support. Another interesting
> thing is if the number of trading partners is have ( in our case it is
> 70), we will have to pay huge maintenance fee. Also, if we add another
> 50 trading partners, the maintenance fee will be increased.
>
> Do you any of face the same situation ? If so, are you living with our
> or is there a way out for all these trading partner based license
> structure ? This mostly looks like manager/agent licensing structure.
One example of software that does not charge per TP is Softshare's ECS. It
does all the various EDI-INT flavors (not Drumond certified though), plus
flat file, ftp client, and a few more that I don't recall at the moment.
I'll grant you that normally ECS gets used with the Softshare translator
(Delta), but off the top of my head, I cant think of why you couldn't use
it just as a traffic cop. I'm sure others will chime in if that is way off
base.
BTW, from what I've seen of Sterling's pricing, I'd bet the whole
Softshare shebang would cost less than the maintenance on what you have
now.
Joe Matuscak
Rohrer Corporation
717 Seville Road
Wadsworth, Ohio 44281
(330)335-1541
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