Hi All:
I would like to know if anyone has done any actual benchmarks in this area of
comparing the speed of XML to EDI on the Internet. Is there anything inherently
faster/slower about XML?. I am not talking just transmission speed, but point to
point (DB to DB).
We are working on sending messages to satisfy service requests, some of which are very
fast turn around: 4hrs, 2hrs and soon to come 1hr. That is from the time the request
is committed to our database until the time the replacement part arrives at the
customer's site (scope: worldwide). As you can see from this, time is of the essence.
We would like to see a 60 second or less turn around in message delivery. 20 - 30
seconds would be great. That is the time from our DB commit to the time the message
arrives at the remote shipping depot - which is run by a third party carrier that
warehouses our parts. Protocol: HTTPS.
Time includes: triggering the send, extracting the data, mapping the data,
encryption, sending, receiving into the DB at the other end.
Currently our EDI (via VAN) takes about 5 minutes (could possibly be trimmed) to
deliver to the VAN and about 5 minutes for the VAN to deliver to the trading partner.
Problem is that the VAN only guarantees one hour delivery. This makes the time to TP
a possible 1 hour 10 min instead of the usual 10 minutes. This ruins the 1 hour
support and cuts too deeply into the 2 and 4 hour service. Even 10 minutes cuts
deeply into a 1 hour delivery promise.
I don't expect transaction size to be an issue. Typical EDI transactions are around
1K. Even with a 50-to-1 verbosity ratio sending 50K is not a big deal. Current
benchmarks on our file transfers is 11 seconds per meg.
Thanks for any real world data you can send me or ideas you may have on this.
Steve Bollinger.
Steve Bollinger 408-853-8478
Cisco Systems B2B Service Logistics Pjt
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