If the biggest retailer in the world (Wal-Mart)has been using AS2 for 10 years now without a hitch – then in my books the case for VANs being easier to use and being more cost effective somehow does not hold water.
Wal-Mart for the record again also does not use GXS nor SPS who both would like you to think that they are ubiquitous to B2B/ EDI. Vijay From: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:EDI-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ja...@jameshatcher.com Sent: June 14, 2013 12:55 AM To: Earl Wertheimer; EDI-L@yahoogroups.com; socal_ediguy Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Re: Loren Data vs. GXS.... The EDI Saga... Earl I suggest you need to look at some of the newer Gateway solutions in the market. This is not about my company, competitive solutions address the issues you raised: I think the bigger problem with AS2 is that fact that it is point-to-point. It means that you have to maintain a larger number of connections, instead of a single connection with your VAN. >> Trading Partner Management tools simplify this issue. >>Example: HP currently handles over 15,000 global partner relationships from >>one central gateway using one tool. The AS2 certificates have to be renewed on a regular basis, and if you have a lot of Trading Partners, it becomes a bigger job to manage. >> Key store with Certificate manager that issues and distributes new >> certificates to partners. Automated ability to roll over to new certs when >> the old ones expire eliminating any manual effort or down time due to >> expired certs. Example: Receive a replacement cert from a trading partner due to roll over next week. Drop it in the roll over folder and you're done. If you have 100 AS2 Trading partners and each cert is valid for 5 years (5 x 200 working days) = 1000 days, then you will be updating certs every 10 days. >> Fully automated as above. Go in once, set expiry / roll over schedules, >> issue as needed, drop incoming in the roll over folder and let the system do >> the work. [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: edi-l-dig...@yahoogroups.com edi-l-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: edi-l-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
