<<< The basic question (which has been answered) is that you can either bite the bullet and purchase a translator & the associated connectivity platform and do it all in house or you can "cloud" it out to a company (like an SPS, GXS/Inovis, DI Central, etc., etc., etc.) to do all the "heavy lifting" and just send you documents in neat and readable formats. >>>
Or you could purchase a translator and run it on a shared host in the cloud. Or you could purchase a translator and run it on your own machine in the cloud. Or you could purchase a translator and run it on an instance on a platform in the cloud. Or you could have your home-grown software run on any of the above. Or you could be a renter of third-party software in a multi-tenant scenario. Or you could have your documents routed to a Web service that would perform the translation. What the cloud purportedly offers is: a team of experts that takes the grunt work of security, uptime, server configuration, file permissions, backup, redundancy, network configuration, power monitoring, et al off the backs of companies. I do not know what model makes the most sense for EDI, but I do know that I will never have email in-house again. Regards, Paul _______________________________________ Paul McTeigue Icefan Systemhouse Inc. Montreal, Canada www.icefan.ca EDI - Bbx - Web Development - SQL Server - VB E-Mail: .............. [email protected] Cell: .................. (514) 262-9591 _______________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Dunham Sent: December 6, 2010 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] Re: Cloud platforms & EDI Exactly. Most of the "big" players in the EDI world offer this - it's basically web-based EDI. Somebody asked about "safety" - how safe & secure the "cloud" may be. And it will be just as safe (or unsafe) as your current internet connection is/can be. Can it be hacked.? Sure. But what is the benefit to the hacker to get your EDI information.? Yes, there are some EDI transactions that will contain very personal information - like banking, real estate, education, and medical transactions - and maybe even a few others. But, for the most part, it's going to be information that a thief could care less about. Does a thief really care that some retailer is buying 3600 pairs of shoes from some manufacturer.? Not so much. The basic question (which has been answered) is that you can either bite the bullet and purchase a translator & the associated connectivity platform and do it all in house or you can "cloud" it out to a company (like an SPS, GXS/Inovis, DI Central, etc., etc., etc.) to do all the "heavy lifting" and just send you documents in neat and readable formats. Either are as safe as your connection. Craig Dunham Bear Necessities Computing EDI Sherpa Author/blogger <http://www.retailedi.com/> RetailEDI.com <http://editalk.com/> EDITalk.com Re: Cloud platforms & EDI Posted by: "Brian Lehrhoff" Sat Dec 4, 2010 10:58 pm (PST) EDI transaction processing has been doing the cloud thing for years, without the fancy name tag. You might know it by its given name "outsource." [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/
