> We currently go through a VAN that charges us an arm and a leg for
> each map since the data needs to come to us as xml while our partners
> are only able to send flat files. 

If you bring the flat file (I suspect X12?) to XML conversion inhouse, you will 
save an arm, but not the leg.


> Is there any tool out there that we can use just for the translation
> so we can skip on the 100,000 dollars we might end up having to pay
> the van for translating out messages for us.... 


There are lots of tools, Open Source and others that will do this, or you can 
pay someone to write the conversion once.


http://www.jitterbit.com/  has a community edition on sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jitterbit/

Earl Wertheimer
[email protected]
http://www.spe-edi.com



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