Saravanan,
When you get right down to it, whatever one system is
sending, the other has to be able to receive. Or you
need an interim translator to do a conversion.
Unfortunately, this reduces the available options to
the lowest common denominator.
EDI and XML are both widely accepted standards, and a
company called Vignette even provides a freeware
component called XML-Connect, which will allow anyone
with a PC and an internet connection to receive XML
documents ... where Vignette makes is money is in the
EAI component to connect the XML to your back-end
systems (if any are available). Something will have to
open the XML up once received, and do something with
it. Tibco, TSI, Extricity, and WebMethods have similar
offerings (to name a few, for others, lookup EAI).
I've found that some brick-and-mortars don't even own
computers. They will require some hosted ASP solution
to support their transaction processing and/or catalog
presentation. My company, Metiom, does just that. As
does Ariba and CommerceOne.
I hope this helps. Fell free to contact me if you
have any more questions.
-- Jonathan Hadden
--- KUMARESAN Saravanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am a part of a team which implements EDI
> for one of our client.Our
> client has many Trading Partners (in this case
> suppliers) which includes
> Brick & Mortar companies (Companies which are small
> in size and does not
> want to spend much on setting up EDI).We are
> responsible for implementing a
> solution for one of such suppliers who are located
> in Taiwan.
> We are trying to look for a solution to handle EDI
> with these
> companies.Right now we were discussing several
> solutions like using the web
> (XML ?)to transfer the EDI documents. But we are not
> sure how to handle this
> edi document on the other end without implementing
> EDI.
> I would appreciate any help from those who met the
> same situation before.
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Saravanan...
>
>
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