Dan,
Now EDI is basically spilt into two major areas.
1) Custom EDI - with Health Care, Service Providers, B2B having their custom
layouts. Most of these also have COTS included.
This is primarily coding using Java/C# with XML
or
2) Users using COTS - Biz Talk, GenTran - convertors. These needs knowledge of
Mapping, & Configuring either of those or other similar tools.
EDI recently has picked up with Mandated use in HealthCare (Health Care Act)
for Payments, Electronic Records that are going in now or shortly.
Also a lot of activity with X12 and EDIFACT going on now.
So even tough it is kind of niche market it is doing pretty good now.
Good Luck.
Kiran
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From: Mike Rawlins <m...@rawlinsecconsulting.com>
To: PCD <pcdwhoop...@yahoo.com>
Cc: EDI--L <edi-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] job Search
Dan,
Good luck. The trend I saw in my consulting practice (when I had
an active one) is that EDI has become a very mature, commodity
market, with fewer companies running their own translators. For
small companies the trend has been toward web-based solutions, and
for mid sized to large companies who want to integrate their back
end applications the trend has been toward outsourcing ("in the
cloud", managed services, whatever). If you want to stay in EDI
your best bets may be with service providers. Health care
insurance (HIPAA EDI) may be an exception to those trends, but
most employers in that niche want business experience in health
care in addition to EDI skills.
Depending on what your software skills are you may have a more
promising future in writing software.
Mike
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Michael C. Rawlins, Senior Software Engineer, GXS
Sent from personal account
On 9/27/2013 11:33 PM, PCD wrote:
>Almost 20 years since I did one. Have to start now. I'm not sure if I want to
>go back writing systems software or get another EDI gig. I'm on LinkedIn. I
>have a skeleton resume there. I have to recreate one.
>
>
>Any tips to navigate the current market will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Dan Mehlhorn
