Adam, Without knowing all of the facts such as number of trading partners, staff, monthly volumes etc., it is difficult to compare which would end up being the better choice for your business case. I have explained to folks over the past few years that there are always 2 sides to this argument. Yes, VAN costs are real and at the end of the month you receive an invoice stating this. However, if your volume is low, the costs may not be significant enough to worry about. Obviously if you are a Wal-Mart with a kazillion trading partners, tons of volume and the resources to support AS2, then AS2 makes sense. If you are a smaller Hub with less trading partners and lower volumes, AS2 may not make sense business wise. As a Hub, you will need to know at what point does AS2 work for you. However, if you are on the spoke side, when your trading partner (800 pound gorilla) says that they are switching to AS2, you don't really have a choice. The question is, do you go out and purchase, install, learn, maintain, swap certificates annually, etc. or do you simply request to your VAN to set-up an AS2 connection with said trading partner and continue paying the VAN fees. Again, depending on your volume with that trading partner, what is the better choice. If going the AS2 route, keep in mind what your monthly VAN fees are compared to the added AS2 costs. There will be internal resources required to monitor the AS2 ongoing. There are costs there that don't come in the way of a monthly invoice. With most of the members of this site being the worker bees that wear many hats as it is, the last thing that they may need is another hat to wear that comes with AS2. With VAN rates dropping, it is worth shopping around. This is where my shameless self-promotion starts. Commport, as has been noted on this site before, offers the best rates guaranteed. We guarantee at least a savings of 20% off of your current VAN fees and in most cases, up to 65% or more. We switch over a many VAN customers each month, especially from the 2 big guys, the expensive one as well as the one that keeps on going down. The latter had another communication issue this week. If any of you are interested to see what savings Commport can offer, just send me (off-line if you wish) your current monthly volume and I would be happy to send you a proposal. Thank you Glen Haywood G.M. Sales Commport Communications International, inc. 3 Ross Street, Aurora, Ontario, L4G 1X3 www.commport.com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +1 905 727 6782 ext 2206 Fx: +1 905 727-7251 Cell: +1 416-806-8997
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam West Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] AS2 THank you for all the respones. I was referring indeed to the Vans vs. AS2 issue and apologize for a bad post. To recap, I think it would be cost benefit for AS2 in the long term. SOme of the variables are how large your transactions are per partners. If anyone could speak of the savings in detail that would be great. Cheers, Adam www.amsterdamcentral.net --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Klaus-Dieter Naujok <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:knaujok%40comcast.net> net> wrote: From: Klaus-Dieter Naujok <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:knaujok%40comcast.net> net> Subject: Re: [EDI-L] AS2 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:EDI-L%40yahoogroups.com> com Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:16 PM On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Ricardo Johnson wrote: > If you think the phrase "..If you want it to be inexpensive and > easy, invest in Softshare ECS.." is not trying to sell anything or > 'was merely commenting on a huge misconception. .' then obvioulsy I'm > over reacting. Nevertheless, I do know when someone is trying to > sell something and I also imagine that there may be others in the > group that would like to sell other stuff too, but they don't out of > respect for the group. Ricardo, I fully share your sentiments regarding the constant promotions by Art of his services and product offerings which are skillfully crafted with in his responses. You are correct that a large number of active participants could do the same, but are reframing form doing so out of respect. In closing, I don't think we will ever change Art, he is what he is. Klaus [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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[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/
