Will XML format become the EDI standard?

Posted on 9 Aug 2019 by The Manufacturer
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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 formats, very often modified to partners business needs.

Comarch, a global provider of innovative IT, explores the current landscape of standards used in the Electronic Data Interchange and determines whether the XML format will become the world’s de-facto standard format. Electronic Data Interchange came onto the scene in the 1960s, enabling companies to standardise and digitise their customer or supplier communications, such as…

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