Can you recommend some good software for doing this? What are your experiences with
Internet EDI?
I am a little familiar with Templar from Harbinger. Who are the competitors? Any
good reviews comparing the options? I am open to reviewing ideas here.
Thanks, Rachel,
Steve
At 03:30 PM 7/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I don't think the formatting of the data is relevant in your example.
>Whether it's EDI or XML doesn't make a difference. It seems to be the real
>bottleneck is your VAN. Why not just use the Internet to send EDI rather
>than going through the VAN?
>
>Rachel
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Bollinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 1:20 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: The need for speed: XML vs. Internet EDI
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>
>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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