Technologies
Last Week in the Forums: Changing Data Causing Coloring Issue in Area Chart, Coloring Categories the Same Across Multiple Charts
This blog series takes a look back at the past week in the forums, recalling how active they were and…
Read more »Enable Interactivity in Your BIRT Viewer
BIRT Interactive Viewer(IV) is an end user tool that enables you to analyze and modify BIRT reports on the web…
Read more »Top 5 Tips for Successfully Deploying ERP/B2B Integration Projects
Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through…
Read more »Cyber Monday – How EDI increasingly powers Online Shopping
Cyber Monday is here! Although Monday is the official kickoff of the online holiday shopping season it certainly did not…
Read more »Upgrading Your Treasury Management System? Five Questions to Consider about Bank Connectivity
Are you in the process of upgrading your Treasury Management System (TMS)? So are many other Global 1000 organizations. At…
Read more »How do you go about expanding your B2B platform into a new market? – Part2
In this blog I would like to discuss some of the more technical considerations that have to be taken into…
Read more »E-Invoicing and EDI – What we can Learn from the French
Electronic invoicing isn’t new; it has been around for over 20 years in the shape of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).…
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5 Considerations When Choosing between AS2 and FTP
AS2 and FTP are the most popular Internet Protocols used for B2B communications, but which is better for your community…
Read more » B2B Integration will play a critical role in the Second Economy
Earlier this month W. Brian Arthur published an excellent article in the McKinsey Quarterly about “The Second Economy.” By the…
Read more »EDI, XML and the Metric System
When people learn that I work in the B2B e-commerce sector one of the questions they always ask me is…
Read more »Last Week in the Forums: Using the Same Masterpage for All Reports, Stopping SQL Execution when You Don’t Want to Display Your Sub Report
This blog series takes a look back at the past week in the forums, recalling how active they were and…
Read more »Do you want to win with the Advance Ship Notice (ASN)? Then follow these ten best practices!
The Advance Ship Notice (ASN) continues to get a bad rap within the B2B community. I agree that is a difficult…
Read more »All the Technology Giants are Investing in B2B Integration
SAP announced this morning that it plans to fully acquire Crossgate. This is good news for the B2B integration sector…
Read more »Custom ODA to Use Microsoft Excel Files as Data Source
Hello Community, A custom ODA plugin for eclipse BIRT that supports using Microsoft excel files (xls, xlsx) as data source,…
Read more »Integrating and Extending BIRT, 3rd Edition is Available!
I’m pleased to announce that the third edition of Integrating and Extending BIRT, companion volume to BIRT: A Field Guide is at last…
Read more »AS2 and Internet EDI – Nine Years Later
On September 9th, 2002 Walmart announced its intention to shift to a new Internet-based EDI system using technology from a…
Read more »Understanding the Basics of Cloud Computing
Earlier in the year I posted a blog entry discussing why manufacturing companies should consider using cloud based environments. One…
Read more »Last Week in the Forums: Calling a DataSet Field from a Text Box, Highlighting the First Row of a Group
This blog series takes a look back at the past week in the forums, recalling how active they were and…
Read more »Last Week in the Forums: Replacing Labels in a Chart with a ‘Key’ DataSet, Avoiding Group Header Row Being Last Line in a Page
This blog series takes a look back at the past week in the forums, recalling how active they were and…
Read more »Last Week in the Forums: Fixed Layout vs Auto Layout, Displaying Your Query Text in Your Report for Troubleshooting
This blog series takes a look back at the past week in the forums, recalling how active they were and…
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