Hi, Art - Actually, I have had zero lurking time for months. I've been heads down on a B2B project.
I was talking about EDI yesterday with my boss and I said I would ask around on the Yahoo group. ****Thank you to everyone that has responded to my query.**** I found EDI challenging when I first became involved with it but I resolved to master the fear. Once again, I have found this to be a great group of very knowledgable, helpful and friendly people. I look forward to more lurking in between other projects. Chris ________________________________ From: Art Douglas <[email protected]> To: Christine Evola <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 9:53:41 AM Subject: RE: [EDI-L] In house vs. hosted EDI providers Chris, You probably read right here that Softshare was purchased and is joining Liaison. They are leaving the Softshare group in Santa Barbara intact. This means they will be even better supported, and Liaison’s other products and services will be available to Softshare’s customers. Softshare has a great GIS R3 interface. I am no longer an official Softshare Rep, but I will be happy to introduce you to their sales staff. Art Douglas EDI Consultant. From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Evola Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EDI-L] In house vs. hosted EDI providers Hi, everyone. I typically just lurk on this group occasionally. I have not been active in EDI for about 4 years but I appreciate and enjoy everyone's honest input on all topics here. We have EDI with 15 partners in house via Tibco right now, feeding a custom SQLServer 2005 backend application. Tibco is expensive and hard to maintain and we are converting our ERP to SAP. Although Tibco has SAP adapters, the Director of IT wants to consider other options such as a service group or replacing Tibco with SoftShare. I have calls into sales reps to get more information about their product lines but would also like opinions outside of the SoftShare and Sterling sales groups. We are on a very aggresive timeline for the ERP conversion so I am reaching out for help. The decision needs to happen in a week. (He just asked me to research last night! ARGH!) My questions are: 1 Does anyone have any information about SoftShare? Recommendations/issues? 2 I believe Sterling Commerce provides service bureau-type functions. We send them our document and they make EDI out of it...that sort of thing. Has anyone used Sterling's services and can you give me recommendations or issues? 3 Do you have experience with another provide of EDI services? Preferably one that supports SAP iDocs? Thank you for your help and comments in advance. Chris Businesss Analyst San Jose, CA [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: [email protected] [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/
