Can't really comment much on GXS as my knowledge is a bit dated, so I will
leave those comments to someone else.
GSW and GIS: If your using GSW your easiest upgrade (specially if you have a
lot of maps) by far is Sterling Integrator (aka GIS). As you know GSW is an EDI
specific application that is designed to take any data format and convert it to
EDI and vice versa. And because it is very specific to EDI and it is a much
older, time tested product, you will find GSW to be considerably more mature at
what it does (EDI). SI (aka GIS) is what they call an EAI or "Enterprise
application integration". An EAI (according to Wikipedia) is "An integration
framework composed of a collection of technologies and services which form a
middleware to enable integration of systems and applications across the
enterprise.", loosely translated you can use an EAI to tie together your
accounting to your inventory management just as easily as you could receive an
850 purchase order, translate it and move it into your order management system
(said Tongue-in-cheek). The upside is that all your GSW maps should port right
over unless you have some extensive user exits.
Personal Note: I generally liken the comparison between GSW and SI as that
between a good pickup and a Mach Truck. I can buy a pickup today and start
hauling stuff from homedepot almost instantly, which is pretty much the same
with GSW; however, not so simple with the Mach, I still need to outfit it with
an appropriate trailer and equipment. That said a well appointed Mach can out
haul a pickup almost 10 to 1, this is also true of a well appointed SI system.
Also a normal pickup is about 1/3 the size of a setup Mach, which is an ironic
number because 1/3 just about says everything else you need to know when
comparing the two.
GSW has about 1/3 the features of SI.GSW is about 1/3 the price of SI .GSW has
about 1/3 the setup time of SI.GSW takes 1/3 the training time and cost of
SI.Lastly projects under GSW generally take 1/3 the implementation time of SI.
Final note, if your shopping for a translator and all your planning to do with
the application is receiving a data file from a trading partner and port it
over to your accounting system; do yourself and other employees a favor and
stick to GSW, there are a lot of thing you can do to cleanup and streamline
your processes. However, if your an IT manager looking to standardize all those
little applications that run your entire organization onto one standard
development language and framework, to include all your EDI processes; then SI
is definitely your baby.
This post is also available to comment on at:
http://ediassociates.blogspot.com/2013/01/gsw-vs-gissi.html
Enjoy,
Stephen
Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:07 pm (PST) . Posted by:"challa" challa_yogesh_choudharyHi
TeamCan some one please explain elaborately what are the differences between
the the following EDI tools: GSW and GIS, & GIS and GXS, & GSW Vs GXS. As we
are currently using GSW(Gentran Server for Windows) version 5.1, what would be
the best possible upgrade to this GSW.Thanks in advance.
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