And don’t forget to confirm in advance that any product you buy comes with a complete library of EDI standards, particularly the ones you’ll be using. Don’t forget that there’s a difference between “supports” and “includes”.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leah Halpin Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:38 AM To: [email protected]; Christine Evola Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] In house vs. hosted EDI providers [SALES] Hi Chris, Be sure to ask about Seeburger's capabilities for complete and valid FA creation/receipt/reconciliation. Be sure to have them demo their trading partner management process. Also, make sure they thoroughly and carefully explain and demo their syntax checking and error reporting and whether or not they're going to charge you extra for any or all of the above. Of course, you should always ask for thorough demos and explanations, but I've worked with customers of Seeburger who were caught out because they expected the above to be part of the package (as they are with almost every US based translation tool/systems/service). Seeburger was developed in Europe by Europeans who have a significantly different take on doing EDI. Leah ________________________________ From: "[email protected] <mailto:james%40jameshatcher.com> " <[email protected] <mailto:james%40jameshatcher.com> > To: Christine Evola <[email protected] <mailto:c.evola%40att.net> > Cc: [email protected] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 9:50:11 PM Subject: RE: [EDI-L] In house vs. hosted EDI providers [SALES] Hi Christine, I work for Seeburger, bias declared. :-) You need to look at all the options, a key decision is in-house or outsource. This often depends on your volume and number of trading partners. If you have a stable number of partners and can use AS2 avoiding VAN's, in-house has a stronger potential ROI. Lots of TP's, regular mapping and / or partner changes requires more resources, outsource may have a better ROI. Industry situation: - Sterling is now part of IBM and they have stated it will become Web Sphere. (possible risk) - Softshare was just acquired and will be going through transition (possible risk) - Inovis was acquired by GXS and is in transition (possible risk) - Crossgate is still a start up and not profitable. SAP is leaning their business, will they survive? (possible risk) Seeburger has the largest installed base of SAP users globally using BIS our main offering. Seeburger adapters for PI are resold by SAP globally. We have hundreds of customers with references in every industry. If you have a PI strategy this fits easily and can be executed via SAP (one source). We offer clearing house services. You can send us IDOC's and we will handle all onward processing similar to a VAN or Crossgate type service. We've been in business over 22 years, still privately owned and operated. Conservative, stable, safe business. I would suggest you prepare an RFP and invite the vendors you think have potential to respond, short list from there. Best Regards, James Hatcher Seeburger [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/
