The untapped opportunity of EDI

Posted on 6 Nov 2014 by Malcolm Wheatley

25 years on, can anything new be said about EDI? Plenty, says David Eyes of EDI specialists Data Interchange. IT contributing editor Malcolm Wheatley finds out more.

Hailed almost 25 years ago as the universal business-to-business integration tool of the future, the day-to-day reality of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in practice has turned out rather differently. For instance, many manufacturers have EDI connections with only their very largest customers and suppliers. More often than not, those connections will utilise different EDI standards and…

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