For EDI as a service, there's also CrossGate and their SAP Information Interchange, which SAP has invested in. I haven't used them but a lot of old Seeburger folks are working there, for what that's worth, and one of SAP's founders is an investor so they are tightly integrated with SAP for EDI and other B2B protocols.
>From what I understand, all you need to do is configure your IDocs to point to their ports from your SAP system and everything else - trading partner management, translation, routing and communications - is taken care of for you. They also do all your mapping, which is based on work already done for over 40,000 SAP to trading partner pairings in a wide range of industries. My own personal experience is SAP and Sterling Integrator, which works but you need in-house staff and a high level of skill. Then of course you can always hire me to do it for you J. Good luck. Emmanuel Hadzipetros SAP-EDI Consultant Be sure to read my book "Architecting EDI with SAP IDocs", now available at: http://www.sappress.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H3003 Check out my website at: http://sap-idoc2edi-consulting.com/ And my blogs at: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/sap/ehadzipetros http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/252038725 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Evola Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] In house vs. hosted EDI providers Hi, everyone. I typically just lurk on this group occasionally. I have not been active in EDI for about 4 years but I appreciate and enjoy everyone's honest input on all topics here. We have EDI with 15 partners in house via Tibco right now, feeding a custom SQLServer 2005 backend application. Tibco is expensive and hard to maintain and we are converting our ERP to SAP. Although Tibco has SAP adapters, the Director of IT wants to consider other options such as a service group or replacing Tibco with SoftShare. I have calls into sales reps to get more information about their product lines but would also like opinions outside of the SoftShare and Sterling sales groups. We are on a very aggresive timeline for the ERP conversion so I am reaching out for help. The decision needs to happen in a week. (He just asked me to research last night! ARGH!) My questions are: 1 Does anyone have any information about SoftShare? Recommendations/issues? 2 I believe Sterling Commerce provides service bureau-type functions. We send them our document and they make EDI out of it...that sort of thing. Has anyone used Sterling's services and can you give me recommendations or issues? 3 Do you have experience with another provide of EDI services? Preferably one that supports SAP iDocs? Thank you for your help and comments in advance. Chris Businesss Analyst San Jose, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
