Hi Susan,
We've been investigating Cloud EDI SaaS for some customers.
Basically I think it comes down to this:
With traditional EDI the customer needs to
purchase the EDI software and pay annual maintenance
own/operate server(s) to run the software on
do the data mapping (and/or operation) or
outsource these functions.
Bottom line - greater initial outlay
With Cloud EDI
No software is purchased - they pay a monthly and/or
transaction fee
No server required
The mapping may be done by the EDI hosting company.
Operation and data management is done by the hosting
company.
Little initial outlay - annual or 3 yr commitment
may be required.
In the cases we looked at the break-even point is
3 years operation of the cloud EDI platform costs
about the same as
the first year owned option.
Liaison Technologies has their LENS and other cloud platform that works very
well
especially for large volume users.
Roger
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Susan Stecklair
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 5:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EDI-L] Cloud platforms & EDI
Hi All -
I've been asked to met with someone on the following topic:
"I'm trying to understand how the emergence of Cloud platforms that provide
execution elasticity and global scale will or will not change the state and
progress in areas like exchanges and supplier connectivity (more generally
B-to-B systems)."
I've trained on Salesforce.com, but their Order Management is handled by
partners and seems very primitive from an EDI perspective - at least when I
last looked at it. Do any of you have any experience with Cloud platforms
as part of EDI (B2B) integration? I'm certain familiar with TaaS.
Thanks,
Susan
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