Choosing a Standard to Grow on.
Regardless of the standards that you adopt for your integrations, you need to pick some. EDI, XML, or any of the others. You need to evaluate and decide on a standard that will do what you need. And you need to be prepared to present it to your trading partners.
This also applies to other parts of your business. Picking a standard platform for your development and standard tools for development. And so forth.
Even small companies benefit from standardization. Don’t be afraid to put your technology people in a room and ask them to provide standard recommendations. But there are two cautions.
1. The latest and greatest, may look cool to the tech people, but may also be a platform that is unproven and will change radically in a short time.
2. Not all open source is good. If you are going open source as part of your platform, look at the quality of the community that supports them. (This is also true for non-open source technologies.)
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