What is EDI?
EDI stands for “Electronic Data Interchange” It is a file based format that goes back before the modern Internet and our current concept of e-commerce. The problem that EDI was trying to solve was, “How do we get data from one system to another reliably, cheaply and in a common format?” These problems are still with us today, not because EDI didn’t provide a workable solution, but because it was not implemented on a wide scale. And because competing solutions also exist so that no one has a corner on the market of data formatting. (more…)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008