If an organization is trying to rely on "EDI" to solve problems without an expectation of changes to its business process, it's business applications and its expectations, then, yes, it can be a waste of time. Include appropriate changes in all the rest and "magic" does happen. The problems EDI doesn't solve aren't a reason to avoid EDI (or XML or web streams, etc.) They're a reason to fix the underlying problems.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:21 PM
To: XMLEDI Group
Subject: RE: Small-biz e-biz reflections from an EDI'er
Gawd I love this kinda talk. All of you are spot on. We have a product
that integrates paper, EDI, XML, and Web streams, and the issues are all the
same. The funny thing is if you get an order or invoice on paper, you will
try to do everything you can to figure out and correct it. Electronic
submissions with any problems are typically just rejected. All that does it
teach the user to send in paper.
EDI was going to get rid of paper, XML going to get rid of EDI. Working on
the fringes of the problem.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Hendrickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:29 AM
To: XMLEDI Group
Subject: RE: Small-biz e-biz reflections from an EDI'er
The great panacea! Data is still Data! How it is transported means nothing
if it is wrong or incomplete. Whether that data is formatted as EDI or XML
doesn't change the data extraction / mapping requirements. The only
advantage that XML seems to have over EDI is that more and more software
vendors seem to be willing to integrate XML into their applications. The
biggest issue for EDI reaching critical mass as you stated has always been
the issue of extracting the data.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Mehlhorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: May 10, 2002 08:24
To: XMLEDI Group
Subject: Re: Small-biz e-biz reflections from an EDI'er
Ed,
You are spot on!
Dan Mehlhorn
System Programmer/EDI Administrator
Crescent Electric Supply Co.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Broomfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "XMLEDI Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:09 AM
Subject: Small-biz e-biz reflections from an EDI'er
As I endeavour to keep abreast of this world's technological innovations in
the field of electronic commerce, I am constantly reminded of the vast
number of small business who still exchange paper invoices.
When I joined the EDI bandwagon in the late eighties it seemed the paper
invoice was doomed and would not last more than a few years (of course,
there would always be some exceptions). Then, the biggest hurdle was finding
low-cost and reliable computers which could exchange documents seamlessly
and efficiently both with the outside world and with internal accounting and
logistics systems.
Computers are now cheap, and reasonably reliable (sic), yet despite all
this, the man on the Clapham omnibus still feels safer with cellulose. Maybe
it's a generation thing. But I wonder whether it's in part due to the fact
that our industry is pathologically commited to generating steadily greater
levels of complexity , whereas manual trading has been around for millenia
and is more or less understood by one and all. Knowledge engendours
confidence and security - lack of knowledge can engendour reluctance and
fear (acronymophobia?).
Are we not trying to run before we can walk with XML and small businesses?
What happened to hitting that critical mass with first-generation EDI? I was
taught by my masters not to impose EDI on a poor system as this would only
consolidate existing problems. This is surely still true for any new
technology.
Reactions at your leisure, please!
Ed Broomfield
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IT & Business Services
Specialists in e-business
Appt 3, Downs View, Holybourne,
Hampshire GU34 4HY, U.K.
Tel +44 (0)1420 543602
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