EDI may be forgotten by many, but it's still used by countless firms for B2B transactions; EIM aims to synchronize XML and EDI content and pave the way to a quicker, easier upgrade of the mature ...

Although no analyst would contest that XML has become a critical networked supply-chain standard, there is a widely mistaken perception that XML will replace EDI, the primary way companies exchange ...

Starting a new business and the subject of EDI transactions came about. I have some knowledge in xml so my first reaction was to create a document for the solution. After investigating a bit I found ...

It it trully amazing how many new "standards" that have been created over the last few years following the adoption of XML. XML itself is only one of many standards followed by XSL, XQL, etc. All this ...

I’VE RETURNED from a recent set of roundtable discussions in which several retail clients heatedly discussed the migration of existing EDI (electronic data interchange) systems to XML-based ...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provides trading partners with automatic, standardised business document exchange. To process documents, the data needs to be converted to and from different EDI ...

The first round of efforts by e-commerce standards bodies to harmonize XML-based technology with electronic data interchange (EDI) protocols is making the promised world of seamless ...

A further constraint on the deployment of XML is that such industry groups are often already entrenched in an extensive investment in EDI. The larger organisations, particularly retailers, used their ...

In a move designed to strengthen Vitria Technology’s position in e-business integration, the company has announced plans to acquire XMLSolutions of McLean, Va., in a deal valued at approximately $15 ...

EDI lives and .Net cannot be ignored, said industry executives and audience members at a panel session in Santa Clara, Calif. last week. Officials from companies such as Oracle Corp., SAP AG, and ...

XML organizes data and contains instructions for understanding that organization. XML can present data so it can be read by a person or by a computer. Let's admit right from the start that everything ...