The IT shakeup rumbling out of the Great Recession overshadows even the dotcom bust for sheer effect on all things tech in the enterprise. Nothing in IT is as it was, nor will it ever be again. It comes as no surprise then that EDI is undergoing a disruptive transformation too. Read more...

This month, ec-bp.org polled you... our readers about your experience with EDI implementations, and boy did you answer. The poll revealed that the biggest implementation problems stem from trading partner issues rather than technological glitches. Forty-seven percent reported difficulties in complying with trading partner requests that ranged from "numerous and stringent requirements" to "insistence on putting data in the wrong data fields." The most common used phrase in respondents' complaints of this type was "non-standard standards." Read more...

Summer is upon us and the heat is rising, at least in the South and the East. We've been watching a couple trends in the EDI world that are not particularly new, but can be viewed as indicators. The question is though, indicators of what? Read more...

It’s fairly well documented that EDI and automated B2B processes can save money over manual, paper-based transactions. But just how much money are buyers and suppliers paying per EDI transaction, and are there ways to cut costs?

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