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Notifications: The Hurricane Sandy Litmus Test
As Hurricane Sandy arrives in the Northeast part of the country where I workout of an OpenText EasyLink office, the…
Read more »My Kid’s Private Healthcare Information? Sure, I’ll Fax It. But Not With Paper, and Not to Just Anyone.
Today I read an articleabout a school district in Rhinebeck, NY taking heat from parents and the publicat large because…
Read more »Star Wars or Star Trek – Which Do B2B Integration Professionals Like Better?
Two weeks ago GXS hosted its annual Customer Forum in Washington DC. Over 200 B2B integration professionals were on-site to…
Read more »There Has Never Been a Better Time to Revisit EDI (part 1)
Perhaps it is EDI’s name—Electronic Data Interchange—that makes it sound more like a data format and less like a business…
Read more »Eight Ways to Mitigate Operational Risk in the Cloud for Financial Services
GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Compliance in the Cloud: Raising the Bar in Financial Services.” CEB TowerGroup Senior Research…
Read more »What Apple’s Lightning Connector Can Teach Us About Interoperability
The big news last week was Apple’s new iPhone 5. Although the new phone is lacking in revolutionary features like…
Read more »Ten Reasons Why Cloud B2B Integration Helps With International Expansion Projects
Global expansion has been undertaken by many companies over the past decade, whether it is simply to get a foothold…
Read more »Faster, Higher, Stronger
The 2012 Olympics have been filled with excitement. MichaelPhelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time. Britain’s BradleyWiggins became…
Read more »How B2B Integration Automates the Procure-to-Pay Cycle for Manufacturing Companies
Large companies in the aerospace, automotive, high tech and industrial manufacturing sector purchase trillions of dollars of goods every year. …
Read more »Reconsider Your B2B Strategy – Reason 1: Reduce Costs
Whatever the economic conditions, it makes good commercial sense to drive cost from your business processes by identifying inefficiencies and…
Read more »It’s hybrid, but not as we know it
One thing I know for sure is, hybrid B2B solutions are here to stay. Over my last couple of blogs…
Read more »How EDI enables the Retail Supply Chain
Suppose a company such as Walmart, Carrefour or Metro needed to place an order for $1 million from a clothing…
Read more »Hybrid B2B: A help or a hindrance?
In my last blog we were debating the pros and cons of hybrid B2B solutions. The main thread to our…
Read more »Great Faxpectations
Please enjoy this blog from FDDG Product Manager Brian Lennstrom, thefirst featured submission in our series of posts from first-time…
Read more »Banking & Web Services: The File is Dead, Long Live the API
Today most, if not all, financial transactions flowing between Banks, Financial Institutions, Corporates, Government agencies, Insurance companies and Securities counterparties…
Read more »Hybrid isn’t just for cars. Why not in B2B?
We’ve been discussing a hybrid approach to B2B integration strategies here recently. The official definition of hybrid is a something…
Read more »2012 B2B Predictions – So far so good..?
Earlier in the year we offered 2012 predictions in the world of B2B and I was asked for my perspective…
Read more »Benefits of using ASNs (Advanced Shipment Notices)
I continue to be surprised by at how many companies are still not requiring Advanced Shipment Notices (ASNs) from their…
Read more »Top 10 EDInomics Posts for the 1st Half of 2012
Having just passed the halfway point for 2012, I thought I would provide a recap of the top EDInomics posts…
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